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“a top lawyer who is conscientious, honest and dedicated. He deploys his US experience to great effect, representing domestic and international venture capitalists, and advising on fund formations and investments… A hard-working, dedicated lawyer who excels on complex issues, he garners peer commendations for his thorough and honest practice and strong presence.”

Chambers and Partners

“One of the leading M&A lawyers in the country”

Chambers and Partners

Dan Shamgar is a partner in Meitar’s Corporate and Securities Group and is an internationally recognized corporate and securities attorney. Dan’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, and investments in a wide variety of industries. Dan has extensive experience in structuring and leading cross-border transactions, representing both domestic and multinational corporations with particular focus on the hi-tech sector.

Dan advises senior management of publicly traded and private companies in strategic decision-making situations and counsels on corporate governance, shareholder affairs and securities matters.

Dan represents issuers and underwriters in public offerings of equity and debt securities in various international markets, primarily the U.S., and advises companies with respect to de-SPAC transactions.

Dan advises both early-stage and mature companies with respect to their global growth strategies, and he represents domestic and foreign investment funds in their investment transactions and fund formation activities.

Dan is ranked by global ranking guides as one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the fields of M&A and capital markets.

Dan lectures in the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and he serves as the Chairman of the Lawyers and Accountants Committee of the IATI – Israel Advanced Technology Industries.

Public and private M&A transactions including:

• The acquisition of CyberArk by Palo Alto in a stock and cash transaction at an aggregate value of $25 billion.
• Stock merger of ironSource with Unity Software at a value of $5 billion.
• Cash acquisition of Verint Systems by Thoma Bravo in consideration for $2 billion.
• Cash acquisition of SodaStream by Pepsico for $3.2 billion.
• Stock acquisition of Teads by Outbrain at a value of $1 billion.
• Cash and stock acquisition of Datorama by Salesforce at a value of $850 million.
• Cash acquisition of MyHeritage by Francisco Partners for $600 million.
• A sale of Lumenis by XIO to Bearing for an amount of $1.2 billion in cash.
• The acquisition of DSPG by Synaptics for an amount of $600 million in cash.
• Representing Oracle, Siemens, Medtronic, Mastercard, F-5, General Motors and other multinationals in various acquisitions in Israel.
• Representing Israeli growth companies, including ironSource, Moon Active, eToro Group, SimilarWeb and Cognyte in acquisitions in and outside Israel.
• Representing private equity funds, including KKR, Advent, Francisco Partners and GTCR in acquisitions of Israeli companies.
• Representing start-up companies in their acquisitions by strategic buyers, including Applitools, Samange, Omtimal Plus, Planck, Leaba Semiconductor, Aromor, Bolt, Bidalgo, ClickTale, Cyberint, DEEP, El-Mul, Global Data Center, Jacada, Klear, Sunday Sky.

Public market offerings including:

• The Initial Public Offering of eToro Group with proceeds of $650 million.
• The de-SPAC merger transaction of ironSource with Thoma Bravo Advantage at a value of $11 billion.
• The public spin-off of Cognyte Software by Verint Systems Inc. at a value of $2 billion.
• Representing venture capital and growth funds in their investment transactions and fund formation, including Viola, Pitango, 10D, IGP, Team8, NVP, Lumir, Key1.