February Edition 2021

26 Yair Geva, Head of the Tech division, Herzog Fox & Neeman DEFINING DEAL OF 2020 Defining Deal of 2020: the sale of Checkmarx to Hellman Friedman We signed this USD 1.25 billion deal, one of the largest M&As of 2020 and the largest security application deal ever, in less than a week during the first quarantine in Israel, with the full deal team working remotely. One of the technical challenges was literally obtaining permits for the buyer’s team to land in Israel for the final negations stage.”