Dear Clients and Colleagues, In this legal update we review recent enforcement developments in corporate and securities law: 1. The effectiveness of an internal corporate compliance plan as a factor in the decision not to criminally prosecute a company – The issue was dealt with in a guideline released by the State Attorney on its policies […]
Proposed Amendments to the TASE Bylaws to Allow Dual Listing of Foreign REITs The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (“TASE“) has recently announced proposed amendments to its Bylaws to allow the dual listing on the TASE of foreign Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Currently, only entities that are organized as limited companies may dually list their shares […]
FBC represented Bezeq in a tender offer for its Series 7 publicly traded Bonds. Bezeq repurchased bonds in a total value of NIS 450 million under the tender offer.
FBC represented Generation Capital Ltd., Israel’s first listed energy & infrastructure fund, on its NIS 525 million offering of shares. The offering was conducted in a unique structure of an underwritten non-uniform offering. Several of Israel’s leading institutional investors participated in the offering. The offering was one of the largest equity offerings on TASE in […]
FBC represented Sunsuper Exchange Fund, Novo Holdings, Moelis Australia and Dalton, as the selling shareholders in the initial public offering of The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange Limited (“TASE”). All of the shares sold in the initial public offering, which represent 31.72% of the TASE’s issued and outstanding share capital, were purchased by the Selling Shareholders […]
FBC represented Azorim in a NIS 168 million offering of Series 13 bonds, listed for trade on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The offering closed in July 2019.
In June 2019, the Committee for the Advancement of Publicly Traded Funds for Investments in Infrastructure (the “Committee”) published its final recommendations. The interoffice Committee is comprised of representatives, among others, from the Securities Authority, the Ministry of Finance, the Capital Market Insurance and Saving Authority, the National Economic Council, and the TASE. The publication […]
FBC represented J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as lead joint book-running managers in the $127 million initial public offering in the United Sates and listing on the New York Stock Exchange of Fiverr International Ltd. (including the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option). Fiverr International Ltd. is an Israeli company […]
FBC represents Bezeq in a NIS 900 million bond offering on TACT Institutional, TASE’s institutional investros’ trading platform. The offering closed in July 2019.
A precedent setting judgement by the Israeli District Court (Central) held that in a private issuance of shares to a controlling shareholder, it is sufficient to apply the share’s market price and there is no need to obtain an opinion – except if the controlling shareholder uses supplementary information that it has, or sets the […]
FBC partners, Nitzan Sandor and Sharon Rosen, authored the Israel chapter for the 2019 edition of The Initial Public Offerings Law Review, an annual guide to legal and market developments in each of the most significant jurisdictions worldwide, designed to aid in-house counsel, corporate clients and private practitioners on IPOs around the world. Please click […]
FBC represented Generation Capital in the establishment and initial public offering (IPO) of the first infrastructure and energy investment fund to list on the TASE and a follow-on offering of shares and options. Prior to the IPO and TASE listing, the fund issued shares in a private pre-IPO offering to classified investors. With the significant […]
Representation of Jerusalem Economy Ltd. (JEL), the parent company of Industrial Buildings Corporation (IBC) – both publicly traded companies in Israel – in a precedential statutory merger pursuant to which JEL merged with and into IBC, with IBC being the surviving company in the merger, and shareholders of JEL receiving shares of IBC; such shares […]
משרדנו ייצג את רפאל מערכות לחימה מתקדמות בע”מ ואביחי סטולרו בעסקה לרכישת החברה הציבורית אירונאוטיקס בע”מ, לפי שווי של 850 מיליון ש”ח. העסקה תתבצע כמיזוג משולש הופכי ולאחר השלמתה אירונאוטיקס תהפוך לחברה בת של הרוכשות בחלקים שווים – ומניותיה יימחקו מהבורסה. בעיתונות: ראו כאן
FBC represented Check-Cap Ltd. in a $7.5 million registered direct offering of units, with each unit consisting of one ordinary share (or ordinary share equivalent) and one Series D warrant to purchase 0.5 ordinary share. H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC served as exclusive placement agent for the offering. Check-Cap, listed on NASDAQ, is advancing the […]
FBC represented Clermont Energy Pte. Ltd. in its investment in Eviation Aircraft Ltd., an Israeli company publicly traded in the United States, through a note purchase agreement, pursuant to which Eviation issued to Clermont a convertible promissory note in consideration for a loan in the aggregate amount of US$76 million. The note will be convertible […]
The Corporate Finance Department at the Israel Securities Authority issued a Staff Legal Bulletin – Dual-listed companies: issuance, reporting, listing and delisting. It is a summary of the most up-to-date information on the issuance, reporting, listing and delisting of dual-listed companies, intended to clarify and reflect those processes for dual-listed companies and companies considering dual […]
