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Ephraim Abramson & Co. has extensive experience with a wide array of legal entities, including joint ventures, limited partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations. We also represent venture capital groups, banks, and insurance companies. For each client, whether that be a start-up company or billion-dollar enterprise, we endeavor to apply our expertise, broad experience and depth of resources, with equal capability and effectiveness. It has always been our goal to meet the specific needs of each client with both excellent legal skills and sound business judgment. Our commitment and responsibility to provide quality services that conform to your business objectives involves superior legal and financial guidance to help your business succeed. Our clients are involved in a wide range of business sectors, including technology, financial services, media and communications, real estate, retail services, consumer products, energy, public utilities, and telecommunications. In addition, we represent a number of globally recognized franchisers and franchisees with respect to the structuring and day-to-day operation of franchises. Our active involvement in day-to-day representation of our corporate clients includes: all aspects of corporate governance; securities and regulatory law compliance; labor relations; general commercial agreements; public and private securities offerings; sophisticated and complex business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, dispositions of subsidiaries or other assets; corporate restructurings and recapitalizations; tender offers; proxy contests; going-private transactions; holding company formations; spin-offs; liquidations and general business advice. We have extensive experience in all major areas of corporate finance and securities law in Israel and abroad, including public securities offerings and the representation of issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities. The scope of our involvement with venture capital has ranged from the establishment of such funds to the representation of venture capital investors and the companies being financed through the portfolio investments made by such funds. The firm regularly represents corporate and individual investors as well as corporate borrowers in a wide range of private financings, including limited partnership investments and secured and unsecured loans, both in Israel and internationally. We regularly represent acquirers, targets, financial advisors, management investors, large shareholders and other institutional investors. Principal Contact: Ephraim Abramson (efi@abramson-law.com)
2. TECHNOLOGY AND VENTURE CAPITAL Our firm has substantial experience representing leading Israeli and foreign technology companies and their affiliates at all stages of their growth as well as the investment banks and venture capital firms that finance them. Our technology practice has drawn on our experience and skills in transactional, legislative and dispute-resolution matters. On behalf of our clientele in the fields of media, telecommunications, electronics, software development, semiconductors, imaging technology, internet, and biotechnology, we have negotiated and documented a range of sophisticated customer contracts, marketing and distribution agreements, computer hardware purchase and lease agreements, software licenses, professional services agreements, software escrow agreements, OEM agreements, hardware and software maintenance agreements, and related transactions. Our firm combines both strong corporate and commercial experience with general experience in intellectual property law. Principal Contacts: Harry Grynberg (hgrynberg@abramson-law.com) and Jeffrey Rashba (jrashba@abramson-law.com)
3. GOVERNMENT / LEGISLATIVE PRACTICE Our firm is actively involved in working with Israeli Government Ministries and officials in drafting legislation and advising on governmental initiatives in a number of areas. These efforts are led by Adv. Tamar Hacker, a senior partner who joined the firm in 1996, and who previously served as the Chief Legal Advisor to the Israeli Ministry of Finance and as a director in various governmental companies. Having served in a variety of positions in public and private sectors, our professionals have a diverse set of relevant skills, strong relationships with key policy leaders and regulators, and a thorough understanding of governmental processes. This translates into developing strategic and proactive approaches for our clients. We provide a full range of legislative services including drafting bills, developing position papers, lobbying actively for client positions, and providing representation. In the regulatory and legislative arenas, comprehensive representation of our clients requires experience and expertise. We bring our clients a strong blend of legal and technical expertise on issues such as telecommunications, environmental compliance and enforcement, energy, insurance and banking, land use and natural resources, transportation and ports systems, and free trade. Extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and documenting government privatization projects has made us one of the leading firms on this subject in Israel. We have represented both governmental entities in their divestitures as well as private investors in privatization acquisitions. Principal Contact: Tamar Hacker (thacker@abramson-law.com)
4. MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS As a pre-eminent telecommunications practice in Israel, our firm has extensive expertise in all aspects of media and telecommunications law, including electronic communications, broadcasting, entertainment and information technology law. With particular strengths in transactional, regulatory and government-relations work, our staff advises on the full range of regulatory and licensing issues, contractual matters, public authorities, telecommunications networks, service providers and data protection/privacy issues. In addition to regulatory and advisory work, we are experienced in joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, financing and restructuring of telecommunications, cable, and broadcasting utilities. We have been involved in many transactions in Israel. Our Israeli and international clients include major industry players, as well as start-up/niche enterprises, funds and government and public sector entities. Our broad legal experience includes transactional and regulatory work (primarily with the Ministry of Communications) relating to fixed-line, fiber-optic cable, submarine cable, satellite, and internet telecommunication systems. Recent clients and transactions include:
Principal Contacts: Ephraim Abramson (efi@abramson-law.com) and Tamar Hacker (thacker@abramson-law.com)
5. LITIGATION The firm regularly represents clients in a broad range of commercial litigation issues in all of Israel’s courts, including administrative litigation and arbitration. Our trial lawyers have tried hundreds of cases throughout the Israeli court system (with over one hundred appearances before the High Court of Justice alone), creating the type of experience and resources to meet the complex litigation needs of large national and multi-national corporations, as well as those of small to mid-sized companies and individuals, from pre-litigation negotiation through appeal. Recognizing that profitable and responsible operations in today's litigation-prone environment is one of the greatest challenges facing businesses, our lawyers are attuned to the need to constantly monitor and assess the costs and benefits of litigation and the prospects of settlement. Getting results is our prime consideration, whether it is through litigation, mediation, arbitration or other alternative dispute resolution techniques. While the firm has been heavily involved in tender-law litigation, labor relations litigation, securities litigation and general commercial litigation, we pursue legal solutions that meet a wide variety of business objectives. Principal Contacts: Yair Assael (yassael@abramson-law.com)
Our firm represents both commercial clients and individuals in all proceedings and transactions that deal with real property-land and the structures attached to it-including purchase and sale, construction, mortgages, leases, registration, closings, tax aspects and management. We regularly represent foreign and Israeli real estate developers and corporations in many kinds of real estate transactions. The firm is active in the representation of a number of Israeli hotels, shopping center properties, malls and other large real estate and construction companies in all aspects of their development, construction and operation, including the Nechasim Ubinyan Group; Dankner Investment Group; Gev Yam and Gad; and the America Israel Investments Group. Principal Contact: Avraham Aberman (aaberman@abramson-law.com)
7. TAX We routinely advise our clients-whether they are individuals or large corporate enterprises-on tax planning alternatives and strategies for relocation, sales of securities, reorganizations, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, real estate sales and exchanges, including structuring of the transactions for minimization of the impact of taxation resulting in savings to the client. Our expertise ranges from employee share option plans to corporate restructurings, with particular strengths in international transactions, local taxation, and venture capital. Principal Contact: Avraham Aberman (aaberman@abramson-law.com)
Our labor and employment law group has experience in counseling and litigating a broad array of labor and employment matters in the public and private sectors in a large variety of industries. The lawyers in the group have extensive litigation experience in labor and employment cases before administrative and arbitration tribunals, as well as the Israeli labor and district courts, in both individual and group actions. We have represented our clients (as plaintiffs and defendants) in all forms of traditional labor matters including employment discrimination, wrongful termination, wage and benefits issues, testing, use of independent contractors, union organizing and other issues pertaining to hiring, promotion, compensation, termination and collective bargaining negotiations. Principal Contact: Yair Assael (yassael@abramson-law.com)
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