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Position: Partner at the M&A and Capital Markets Groups
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Israel
Practice Areas:
Capital markets
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Pharmaceuticals and life sciences
Utilities
Languages:
Hebrew
English
Biography

Nir specializes in the field of Capital Markets and Securities and M&A field, with a special emphasis on cross-border transactions and transactional work in the financial sector, representation of investment houses, financial institutions and publicly traded governmental companies. 

In addition, Nir regularly advises on going-public processes and secondary offerings (both debt and equity).

Recent transactional highlights
  • Represented Unity in the USD 15 Billion share-for-share merger with Israeli target Iron Source.
  • Represented Leonardo DRS in the USD 3 Billion share-for-share merger with Israeli based and NASDAQ listed Rada.
  • Represented Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited the freezeout merger of Israeli based and NYSE listed Taro Pharmaceuticals, representing for Taro a company valuation of USD 1.6 Billion, and in its acquisition of all remaining Taro shares that it did not already own (~21.5%) in an offer that amounts to about $347.8 million.
  • Represented Glassbox Ltd. in a USD 150M merger transaction with Alicorn Galaxy JV Limited, special purpose fund.
  • Representing KKR in the purchase of TASE listed UserWay in a USD 100 million reverse triangular merger (transaction pending closing).
  • Represented HighBridge Capital Management Ltd. in entering into a Restructuring Support Agreement with NASDAQ listed Gamida Cell Ltd. valued at USD 75M.
  • Represented Alma Infrastructure, a private company in a statutory merger with and into Kvasir Education, a public company traded on the TASE, resulting Alma shareholders holding the majority of the shares in Kvasir. The deal was valued at approximately NIS 200 million.
  • Representing Golf & Co. in a freezeout merger for the purchase of the minority stake in TASE listed Adika.
  • Representing TASE listed Meshek Energy - Renewable Energy in a one-of-a-kind transaction for the issuance of preferred shares to the Phoenix Group for a consideration of NIS 700 million.
  • Representing several banking and non-banking lenders in the issuance of complex financial instruments (including the first ever public securitization transaction of a non-banking lender in Israel and the issuance of Credit Linked Notes by Bank Leumi in an amount exceeding NIS 3 billion.
Practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • M&A
  • Private equity
Sector specialisations
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Government and public policy
  • Investment management
  • Oil and gas
Bar admissions
  • Israel
Association memberships
  • Israel
Academic qualifications
  • Tel-Aviv University, B.A. in Accounting (2007)
  • Tel-Aviv University, L.L.B., magna cum laude (2005)
Address:
Tel Aviv
Tel:+972 3 692 2091 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://herzoglaw.co.il/en/our-team/nir-dash/