Corporate, Securities & Capital Markets
Why Agmon?
- Creative solutions to complex issues in the practice of corporations and capital markets – leading precedent-setting transactions, within the framework of uniquely structured mergers, first-of-their-kind issuances, innovative corporate structuring, and more.
- In-depth regulatory experience and familiarity with the intricacies of the Israel Securities Authority’s directives – our department head served as the head of the corporations department at the ISA.
- Unique areas of specialization with a view of long-term client representation in a variety of practice areas.
- Unique specialization with respect to the Anti-Concentration Law in representing independent committees, audit committees and directors opposite controlling shareholders.
About the department
Our firm’s corporate, securities, and capital markets department is widely recognized as one of the most active and diverse in Israel.
The department’s staff represents companies in all aspects pertaining to the capital market, including IPOs, secondary offerings, reporting duties, audit reports, corporate governance, dividends (including in kind, including capital reductions – court proceedings), debt settlements, exempted offers, tender offers, going private transactions, private placements, pre-rulings, the Anti-Concentration Law, compensation policies, and provides counsel with respect to option plans of public companies and takeovers.
The department’s team also handles purchase of activities and shares, mergers and shareholder agreements – sometimes with public aspects that include corporate governance.
The team has unique areas of expertise that include vast experience in acting on complex real estate agreements, in-depth knowledge of the dynamic field of renewable energy, unique expertise in debt financing in the UK and the US under Rule 144A, acting on royalty M&A’s, TACT-Institutional IPOs, administrative enforcement pursuant to the Securities Law, representing holding groups and dually listed companies and more.
We represent clients before the Israel Securities Authority in preliminary inquiries and with respect to any issue that arises during the company’s lifecycle, and opposite rating agencies, underwriters, trustees and other regulators. The department’s staff assists clients in preparing and submitting all the reports required under the Securities Law and related regulation.
The department’s clients include some of the most prominent corporations in the economy, as well as medium and small-sized corporations, from a wide variety of sectors, including gas and oil, renewable energies, real estate, holding groups, insurance and finance, automotive, high-tech and bio-tech, communications, urban renewal, and more.
The department is led by Shirel Guttman-Amira, one of the leading attorneys in Israel in the practice of securities, corporations and capital markets, who before joining the firm served as head of the corporations department at the Israel Securities Authority.
The department’s team is known for its ability to solve particularly complicated legal issues, and for leading complex and ground-breaking transactions and IPOs that are among the largest and most innovative in the Israeli economy. For example, the department acted on a variety of first-of-their-kind transactions, which paved the way for similar transactions to follow, including the merger and split of a public partnership, the first of its kind, issuing unique banking capital instruments, raising public debt using the project financing method to finance a gas and oil project in the Gulf of Mexico and the first ever IPO of a credit card company in Israel.
The department is consistently ranked at the top of national and international guides, based on customer feedback. The head of the department, Shirel Guttman-Amira also received personal recognition for exceptional individual legal activity and is praised by clients who describe the support they receive as creative, professional and especially thorough.
Our firm’s corporate, securities, and capital markets department is widely recognized as one of the most active and diverse in Israel.
The department’s staff represents companies in all aspects pertaining to the capital market, including IPOs, secondary offerings, reporting duties, audit reports, corporate governance, dividends (including in kind, including capital reductions – court proceedings), debt settlements, exempted offers, tender offers, going private transactions, private placements, pre-rulings, the Anti-Concentration Law, compensation policies, and provides counsel with respect to option plans of public companies and takeovers.
The department’s team also handles purchase of activities and shares, mergers and shareholder agreements – sometimes with public aspects that include corporate governance.
The team has unique areas of expertise that include vast experience in acting on complex real estate agreements, in-depth knowledge of the dynamic field of renewable energy, unique expertise in debt financing in the UK and the US under Rule 144A, acting on royalty M&A’s, TACT-Institutional IPOs, administrative enforcement pursuant to the Securities Law, representing holding groups and dually listed companies and more.
We represent clients before the Israel Securities Authority in preliminary inquiries and with respect to any issue that arises during the company’s lifecycle, and opposite rating agencies, underwriters, trustees and other regulators. The department’s staff assists clients in preparing and submitting all the reports required under the Securities Law and related regulation.
The department’s clients include some of the most prominent corporations in the economy, as well as medium and small-sized corporations, from a wide variety of sectors, including gas and oil, renewable energies, real estate, holding groups, insurance and finance, automotive, high-tech and bio-tech, communications, urban renewal, and more.
The department is led by Shirel Guttman-Amira, one of the leading attorneys in Israel in the practice of securities, corporations and capital markets, who before joining the firm served as head of the corporations department at the Israel Securities Authority.
The department’s team is known for its ability to solve particularly complicated legal issues, and for leading complex and ground-breaking transactions and IPOs that are among the largest and most innovative in the Israeli economy. For example, the department acted on a variety of first-of-their-kind transactions, which paved the way for similar transactions to follow, including the merger and split of a public partnership, the first of its kind, issuing unique banking capital instruments, raising public debt using the project financing method to finance a gas and oil project in the Gulf of Mexico and the first ever IPO of a credit card company in Israel.
The department is consistently ranked at the top of national and international guides, based on customer feedback. The head of the department, Shirel Guttman-Amira also received personal recognition for exceptional individual legal activity and is praised by clients who describe the support they receive as creative, professional and especially thorough.
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