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Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg and Co.

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Industry
  
Law

Revenue
  
Unknown

Headquarters
  
Tel Aviv, Israel

Number of employees
  
250

Products
  
Legal advice

Website
  
www.gkhlaw.com

Founded
  
1979, Tel Aviv, Israel

Type
  
Partnership

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Key people
  
Prof. Joseph Gross, Chairman David Hodak, Head of Firm Gene Kleinhendler, Partner Amir Halevy, Managing Partner Eytan Greenberg, Partner

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Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg & Co. (GKH) is one of the largest and most influential law firms in Israel, particularly in the fields of securities, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), hi-tech, corporate law and cross border activity. GKH is ranked as one of the top law firms in Israel, Legal 500 and Chambers Global. The firm’s professional staff consists of some 160 professionals, many of whom are members of foreign bar association and have extensive work experience abroad – in the US, Europe, Australia, Brazil and more.

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Practice Areas

GKH specializes in various fields of law including corporate, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, securities, technology, banking, project finance, litigation, antitrust, energy and infrastructure, environmental law, intellectual property, labor law and tax.

The firm represents public companies traded in the U.S., Israel and Europe, banks, insurance companies and pension funds. GKH also represents private companies of all sizes, start-ups, partnerships and ventures. GKH's clients engage in the fields of: energy and infrastructure, high technology, venture capital, industry, commerce, banking, financial and service enterprises, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, life sciences and telecommunications.

Mergers & Acquisitions - Hi-Tech

  • Waze in its acquisition by Google for a consideration of $1.1 billion.
  • Amazon in its $370 million acquisition of Annapurna Labs.
  • Nordic Capital in its cash acquisition of Oslo-listed Israeli company Vizrt for $372 million.
  • Bessemer Venture Partners in the acquisition of its holding in Altair Semiconductor by Sony for $212 million.
  • Adallom in its acquisition by Microsoft for $320 million.
  • Edwards Lifesciences in its acquisition of Valtech Cardio Ltd. for $990 million.
  • Insight Venture Partners in its $100 million investment in CheckMarx Ltd.
  • Yahoo! in its acquisition of ClarityRay Ltd.
  • Rakuten in its acquisition of Viber for $900 million.
  • Palo Alto Networks acquisition of Cyvera for $200 million.

    • Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate

  • ChemChina in its acquisition of Maktheshim Agan by a reverse triangular merger for $2.4 billion.
  • Keter Plastic in its acquisition by BC Partners for approximately $1.4 billion.
  • Mivtach Shamir Holdings in the sale of its controlling interest with Apax Partners in Tnuva to Bright Food for $2.8 billion.
  • KKR in its acqusition of 75% controlling interest in Alliance Tire Company Ltd. from Warburg Pincus for $500 million.
  • Koor Industries in its merger with Discount Investment Corporation.
  • Given Imaging (NASDAQ; TASE) in its sale to Covidien for $1 billion.
  • York Capital in the sale of controlling shares in Psagot Investment House to Apax Partners (based on an enterprise value of $885 million).

    • Capital Markets - International and Local

  • Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in the $117 million follow-on offering of Imperva on NASDAQ.
  • Barclays and Citigroup in the $122 million initial public offering of Kornit Digital (NASDAQ).
  • Caesarstone (NASDAQ) in connection with a secondary offering of its securities ($288 million).
  • York Capital in the rearrangement of Elbit Imaging (NASDAQ; TASE).
  • Zim Integrated Shipping Services in its $3 billion debt arrangement.

    • References

    Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg & Co. Wikipedia
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