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Law Firms - High-Tech
H-F & Co. Hirsch-Falk & Co.
H-F & Co. is not your standard law firm, nor
are they run-of-the-mill attorneys. The
firm, specializing in Israel’s high-tech sec-
tor, renders a unique team approach, combining
commitment to excellence, top-notch expertise,
professionalism and creative thinking. The firm
maintains a proven trackrecord of delivering unpar-
alleled value to its clients and achieving significant
successes in some of the largest-ever transactions
in the Israeli technology industry.
The Preferred Choice of Prominent High-Tech
Companies
H-F & Co.’s top-tier legal expertise, combined with
profound business comprehension, hasmade the
team the go-to lawyers in Israel for some of the best
tech companies. The firm represents companies at
various stages, from entrepreneurs and startups
tomajor multinational technology companies and
Unicorns. Clients include Kaltura, Moovit, Airobot-
ics, Elastifile, Adgorithms, Kaiima, Pyramid Ana-
lytics, Zeek, Feex, Endor, EinVerid, Ubimo, Argos,
Indegy, Tipalti, Tyto Care, Vlocity, aswell as Google,
Qualcomm, MaxLinear and EMC. In addition, the
firm represents some of the world’s largest invest-
ment banks in connection with M&As and IPOs
of Israeli high-tech companies and also leading
VC funds.
Excellence
The firm provides the highest-quality comprehen-
sive legal services based on interdisciplinarymeth-
odology combining exceptional expertise in a full
range of legal practices. The firm is also renowned
for its deep commitment to its clients and profound
involvement in business aspects that create added
value for its clients and assists them in achieving
optimal business results.
Practice Areas
Corporations – High-Tech –M&A – The firm’s team
has handled some of the largest M&A transactions
in the Israeli hi-tech industry. It has extensive expe-
rience in leading complex cross-border share pur-
chase and asset purchase transactions, mergers,
business combinations, corporate restructurings
and spin-offs. H-F & Co. advises its clients on all
stages of the transaction, from negotiation of the
transaction terms, drafting of the transaction agree-
ments, conducting and managing due diligence
processes and is renowned for assisting its clients
to achieve their transactional goals.
Corporate Finance, Venture Capital and Private
Equity – The firm maintains vast experience in
equity financing transactions with venture capital
funds, private equity funds, private investors and
public capital raising. The team represents issu-
ers, underwriters, investors and selling sharehold-
ers in private and public transactions and assists
entrepreneurs in establishing tech ventures and
startup companies.
IP, IT and Tech Transactions
Intellectual Property – H-F & Co.’s IP/IT/Tech team
provides counsel on all transactional and man-
agement aspects relating to intellectual property
including ownership and chain-of-custody issues,
use and licensing of all types of knowledge-based
assets, patents and IP, open code software, in-
fringement and protection of rights.
Tech Transactions – The firm handles complex IP
and technology commercialization and licensing
transactions. The firm represents its clients in
cross-border transactionswith themost prominent
global technology companies.
Privacy, Data Protection and Cyber Law – The firm
provides legal services to big data companies, en-
trepreneurs and startups regarding data, online
ads, ecommerce and distribution, aspects of data
management, protection of privacy, spam laws etc.
The firm represents clients before the Israeli Law
Information and Technology Authority in matters
relating to data collection and privacy protection.
State R&D Financing Grants – H-F & Co. has ex-
tensive experience in representation before the
Ministry of Economy and Industry’s Chief Scientist
and the Israel Technology Innovation Authority.
Taxation
The firmoffers exceptional counsel in various areas
of Israeli and international tax law, including vari-
ous exit transactions, M&A, corporate restructur-
ing, joint-ventures, formation of investment funds,
public offerings and private financing transactions
and provides tax advice to startup companies and
their founders, including regarding relocation. In
addition, the firmprovides tax planning for high net
worth individuals. The firm represents it clients in
courts and before the Israeli tax authority.
About the Partners
Adv. Nitzan Hirsch-Falk, Partner. Nitzan is the head
of the firm. He has gained international recogni-
tion for his expertise in the areas of corporate law,
mergers and acquisitions, licensing and technology
transactions. Nitzan has led many of Israel’s most
significant IPOs, mergers & acquisitions, financ-
ing transactions and other key transactions in the
Israeli high-tech. Nitzan is an expert in his field
and has been repeatedly ranked by the Chambers
& Partners international ranking as one of Israel’s
leading high-tech M&A lawyers.
Adv. Dr. Adi Gillat, Partner. Adi leads the firm’s IP,
IT and Tech-Transactions practice. Adi is a leading
expert in intellectual property, privacy and data and
has extensive experience in complex and cross-
border technology transactions. She is named by
1000 IAM World’s Leading Patents Professionals
ranking among the most recommended transac-
tional IP lawyers in Israel.
Adv. Gil Mizrahi, Partner. Gil heads the taxation
practice at H-F & Co. Gil is an experienced tax law-
yer specializing in tax consulting on a wide range
of domestic and cross-border transactions. He
maintains impressing achievements pertaining to
handling exits vis-à-vis the tax authorities. Gil main-
tains expertise regarding international taxation,
Israeli taxation, options taxation and employee
compensation and tax planning. Gil is ranked by
Chambers & Partners as one of Israel’s leading
tax attorneys.
Adv. Yuval Oren, Partner. Yuval is highly experi-
enced in representing technology companies with
a special expertise inM&A transactions and financ-
ing transactions.
Adv. Ora Templeman, Partner. Ora represents start-
up companies, Israeli and foreign venture capital
funds and technology companies. Ora maintains
vast experience regarding corporate finance and
M&A.
Esta b l i s h e d
2014
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
High-Tech
Beit Rubinstein, 20 Lincoln St., Tel Aviv
Tel: 972-3-7944888
Fax: 972-3-7944878
Dr. Adi Gillat
Partner
Gil Mizrahi
Partner
Yuval Oren
Partner
Ora Templeman
Partner
Nitzan Hirsch-Falk
Partner