Meitar successfully defended the board of directors of Partner Communications Ltd. in opposing a motion to certify a derivative action seeking NIS 653 million in damages and alleging negligence in the approval of dividend distributions. The motion to certify was denied in its entirety.
Meitar successfully defended ASML, a Netherlands company, in a NIS 20 million subrogation action brought by Migdal Insurance Company. The action was dismissed in light of a foreign jurisdiction provision in the agreement between ASML and the insured (Tower Semiconductor).
Meitar successfully defended an accounting firm in defending against a motion to certify a multimillion dollar class action claim, leading to the denial of the motion. The plaintiffs have filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, which is pending. The claim involves novel issues of securities law and professional negligence as applied to class action claims.
Meitar successfully represented Hypertoy in a legal action and a motion for a preliminary injunction relating to infringement of the trademark “TOY PLANET”, leading to the cessation of all infringing activities.
Meitar represented Enzymotec Ltd., a developer of lipid-based products and solutions for the nutritional and healthcare markets, in its initial public offering on NASDAQ raising approximately $70M (including exercise at closing of the underwriters’ overallotment option in full). Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Jefferies LLC acted as joint book-running managers for the offering.
Meitar represented Stratasys Ltd. (SSYS) in a public offering of ordinary shares for approximately $481M on NASDAQ with JP Morgan as sole-book-runner and Piper Jaffray, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Needham as co-managers.
Our firm represented ROTH Capital partners in the $20 million follow on offering by Attunity Ltd. on NASDAQ.
