Israeli Capital Markets

Israeli Capital Markets

Our firm’s domestic securities practice has consistently been the top-ranked practice in Israel, by domestic and international independent ranking guides, based both on number and size of offerings.
Our clients include most of Israel’s leading commercial banks and financial corporations, as well as leading real property developers and a wide variety of industrial companies. Our expertise includes debt, equity, and hybrid securities, issued both in public markets and in institutional private placements.
We have pioneered the use of structured products in the Israeli public market, and we continue to represent the leading issuers of these products.

Representative experience

  • Representation of Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, in a debt issue of NIS 3 billion through an issuing company.
  • Representation of IDB Holdings Corporation Ltd. Bondholders’ trustees in a debt restructuring in May 2014.
  • Representation of Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, in several public offerings of subordinated notes totaling NIS 5 billion.
  • Representation of Israel Discount Bank in a shelf prospectus in 2014.
  • Representation of Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank in a series of debt offerings totaling NIS 4.6 billion.
  • Representation of Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank in issuing debt of NIS 3 billion, through an issuing company.
  • Representation of Gazit Globe Ltd., Israel’s leading real estate company, in several debt and equity public offerings totalling over $ 1 billion in 2013 and 2014.
  • Representation of JEC, a large Israeli real estate company, in a series of debt offerings.
  • Representation of Isras Ltd, an Israeli real estate company, in a series of debt offerings
  • Representation of IBC – Industrial Buildings Corporation Ltd, an Israeli real estate company, in a series of debt offerings in an aggregate amount of approximately NIS 800 million.
  • Representation of Kesem ETFs and Index Products Ltd., on issuing ETFs and other index products on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange totaling over $1.1 billion.
  • Representation of Sela Capital on issues totaling over NIS 200 million.
  • Representation of the controlling shareholder of HOT Telecommunication Systems in a “going private” transaction valued at US $1.1 billion.
  • Representation of Bazan in issuing bonds and bond options totaling over NIS 1.5 billion.

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