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Recent transaction and litigation

Publications

November / 2010

Advising the underwriters in a $5 billion debt offering by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries

Meitar represented Barclays Capital, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as underwriters of the $5 billion debt offering by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (November 2011).

November / 2010

Cool Holding in the acquisition of Hot Communication

Meitar represented the Altice Fund of Patrick Drahi in the purchase of a substantial shareholding in Hot Telecommunications from Yediot Communications, one of Israel’s largest news companies.

November / 2010

Advising the underwriters in a $750 million debt offering by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries

Meitar represented Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as underwriters of the $750 million debt offering by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (March 2011).

November / 2010

Answer Corporation in its acquisition by AFCV Holdings

Meitar represented Answers.com, (NASDAQ: ANSW), creators of the leading answer engine Answers.com®, in its acquisition by AFCV Holdings, LLC, a portfolio company of growth equity investor Summit Partners for approximately $127 million in cash or $10.50 per share.

November / 2010

Representation of Pitango in the acquisition of VideoSurf by Microsoft

Meitar represented Pitango one of the shareholders of VideoSurf, a start-up that specializes in video search technology that scans several video related sites, in the company’s acquisition by Microsoft

November / 2009

Sun Pharmaceuticals

Meitar’s litigation group successfully represented the India-based Sun Pharmaceuticals (NSE: SUNPHARMA; BSE: 524715) in its legal proceedings against Israel-based Taro Pharmaceutical Industries (PINK: TAROF). The Supreme Court accepted Sun’s argument that under Israel’s Companies Law Sun is exempt from commencing a special tender offer in order to gain control over Taro.

November / 2009

Representation of Altice Group in its acquisition of Israeli cellular operator Mirs from Motorola Inc.

As part of its strategic move into the Israeli telecom market, Altice, a Luxembourg-based private equity firm that controls HOT, Israel’s cable television operator, acquired in May 2010 Mirs Telecommunications from Motorola.