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Recent transaction and litigation

Publications

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

Representation of Altice securities in the sale of Mirs Communication to Hot Communication

Meitar represented the Altice Fund of Patrick Drahi in the sale of Mirs Communications, an Israeli cellular operator, to Hot Telecommunications, Israel’s largest cable television company, for a price of up to $300 million.

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

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 / 2010

Representation of Conduit in its acquisition of Modular Patterns

Meitar represented Conduit an online network for web and mobile application publishers, in its acquisition of Modular Patterns, Ltd. (Wibiya), an Israel-based provider of web application solutions.

November / 2010

Sapiens International Corporation

Meitar represented Sapiens International Corporation, a Nasdaq and TASE listed company, in its acquisition of IDIT Technologies and FIS Software for approximately $75 million total.