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Good news for High-Tech Employees – Status of Capital-Based Incentive Plans Reinforced.

A recent Nazareth District Court ruling enables many companies, mainly high-tech companies, to provide their employees with various compensation plans that will enable reduced tax payments, while making it difficult for the Tax Authority to object to such plans in retrospect. The department’s partners, Eldar Ben-Ruby and Keren Shitrit, were interviewed on the subject for an article in TheMarker and Globes.

Does the wave of departures in the financial sector and the difficulties in hiring talented executives from other sectors prove that the salary cap has failed? Meitar partner Dr. Israel (Reli) Leshem says that the answer is yes, and explains why. Click here for the full article published in Globes (Hebrew).

Even though Corporate VCs have been a major player in high-tech eco-system since the late seventies, their position strengthened during the last 6 years. In 2018 CVCs constituted 43% of the total funding amount. For the full Calcalist interview with Dan Shamgar, partner at our firm, click here (Hebrew).

Or Baron Gil, a partner in our firm, explains that the court’s request for a dividend distribution is an unnecessery procedure that can be cancelled. For the full article in Calcalist (Hebrew) click here.

Gidi Frishtik, a partner in our firm explains how the increase in the Sea of Galilee’s water level is a proven recipe for weakening the motivation of government ministries to deal with the water sector. For the full article, click here.

Pinni Yaniv, a partner in our firm, writes in his Globes article that “international companies that base products on Israeli start-up technology are very concerned about what will happen to the license they receive in case of insolvency of the licensor.” For the full article (Hebrew), click here.

Gidi Frishtik, a partner in our firm and head of the environmental and local authorities team, writes in his Globes article that “a reduction in the number of water corporations will simply not happen. It’s true that it would be better if there were fewer corporations, but after they were established, they will no longer be canceled or merged.” For the full article (Hebrew), click here.