September Edition 2020

24 supplier of end-to-end ethernet and InfiniBand smart interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Joshua Kiernan and Stuart Kurlander in the London and Washington D.C. offices are instrumental figures in the 33-strong team, which regularly advises on initial public, follow-on and private offerings. For example, the team advised CyberArk Software Ltd. on the private offering of USD 500 million of Convertible Senior Notes. The group also advised VC firm Sapphire Ventures on its USD 150 million investment in Monday.com. Backed by themultidisciplinary resources of the firm’s 20 offices,McDermott Will & Emery (“McDermott”) is known for extensive transactional advice, particularly capital markets transactions, involving Israeli clients across many cutting-edge sectors, especially technology, bio-tech and life science. McDermott enjoys a highly prominent position in the Israel Desks Capital Markets category. With considerable experience in advising these types of companies, partners Gary Emmanuel and Mark Selinger in the firm’s New York office are key figures in the team, which has recently provided strategic advice regarding acquisitions, IPOs, direct and follow-on offerings for a number of Israeli clients, such as Cellect Biotechnology Ltd., as well as clinical-stage biopharmaceutical companies. The team also represents some of the most prominent U.S. underwriters, such as H.C.Wainwright &Co., one of the oldest financial institutions and one of the leading placement agents in the country, as underwriter in a number of public and follow-on offerings for Israeli medical device companies. With a strong presence throughout Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S., Paul Hastings is also recognized as one of the most experienced global law firms in relation to Israel-related M&A transactions, with dozens of lawyers frequently involved. Principal contacts include Palo Alto’s Alex Kaufman, previously co-chair of the Israel practice at Morrison Foerster, as well as Benham Dayanim in Washington, D.C., Yariv Katz in New York and Kfir Abutbul in Houston, with the team representing global investors acquiring and investing in Israeli companies on a regular basis and also represent many Israeli companies Mcdermott Will Emery Paul Hastings