Meitar represented Team8 Partners L.P, a venture capital fund specializing in the formation and facilitation of cyber security companies, in its investment round by AT&T, Mitsui, Temasek, Accenture and others.
We are pleased to attach the IVC-Meitar report on exit transactions in the Israeli hi-tech sector in H1 2015, which was released this week by the IVC Research Center and our firm. As the report shows, high-tech exits climbed to $5.29 Billion in the first half of 2015, 76% of the total 2014 amount..
We are especially proud that Meitar has continued its dominant role in this market, representing acquirers or targets, as well as issuers or underwriters, in most of these transactions.
The full report is available through the PDF icon.
Corporate and Securities 
The main purpose of the Angels Law was to create incentives for private investment in startups during their seed stage. In its current format, however, there are difficulties that almost make the law irrelevant. Now, a new draft law may turn it around. Keren Egozi of the firm’s Corporate Group explains the recent changes in her latest post in Geektime Magazine.
For the full article published at “Geektime” (Hebrew),
The full update (in Hebrew) is available through the PDF icon.
Homeland Security and Defense
The full update (in Hebrew) is available through the PDF icon.
Corporate and Securities
The full update is available through the PDF icon.
Technology and Intellectual Property Meitar represented Altair Semiconductor, provider of single-mode 4G LTE solutions, in its acquisition by Japanese electronics giant Sony for $212 million. This is the largest acquisition in the “Internet of Things” sector ever completed in Israel, and Sony’s first acquisition in Israel.
