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Yigal Arnon & Co

1 AZRIELI CENTRE, TEL AVIV 67021, ISRAEL
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Work +972 3 608 7777
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Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Yigal Arnon & Co, Adv Gidon Weinstock, Tel Aviv, ISRAEL

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Adv Gidon Weinstock

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Work +972 3 6968333
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Yigal Arnon & Co

Work Department

Commercial, Corporate and M&A / China

Position

Adv. Gidon Weinstock has very extensive experience in the full range of corporate and commercial matters, representing high-profile companies from virtually every market sector in complex cross-border M&A transactions for over 20 years. Adv. Weinstock was a pioneer in building an Israel-based China practice, developing both a familiarity with the Chinese legal and regulatory system as well as networking. Gidon Weinstock now has over 10 years' experience in helping Israeli companies enter the Chinese market, dealing with cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity structuring, commercial arrangements and dispute resolution, operating in diverse fields including retail, manufacturing and infrastructure projects.

Career

Adv. Weinstock and Adv. Zecler funded in 1997 Weinstock-Zecler law firm. Adv. Weinstock serves on the Board of Directors of the international retail chain Super-Pharm, is a lecturer on Chinese commercial law at Tel Aviv University, and is also invited to participate as a guest expert speaker at a variety of symposiums and other China-focused forums.

Languages

Hebrew English

Member

Israel Bar Association (1992)

Education

LL.B., Tel Aviv University, 1992

Israel

Commercial, corporate and M&A

Within: Commercial, corporate and M&A

Yigal Arnon & Co is best known for hi-tech deals, where its corporate team is 'well suited to larger technology companies and growth companies'. In a standout matter, Barry Levenfeld acted for Mexican public company Mexichem in relation to its $1.5bn acquisition of Netafim. Also of note, David Schapiro and Eliran Furman are advising SteadyMed on its reverse triangular merger transaction with United Therapeutics Corporation in aggregate value of approximately $216m. Additionally, Orly Tsioni assisted the shareholders of Brack Capital Properties with its $302m sale of control in the company to Redzone Empire Holding. Also recommended is Barak Platt, who in 2017 was involved in the largest-ever M&A in the Israeli hi-tech space. The practice group was further strengthened in 2019 following its merger with Weinstock-Zecler & Co, which brought to the team Gidon Weinstock and Micki Shapira.

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  • INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR HNWIs IN ISRAEL’S HI-TECH ECOSYSTEM

    Accredited investor funding platforms for innovative tech scale-ups offer more choice and without having to commit a large chunk of capital upfront, the risk is diluted.
    - Yigal Arnon & Co

  • Perhaps the QuadragaCX Story Will Have a Happy Ending

    While there are the aficionados who will say that cryptocurrencies will free us of the chains of the global financial institutions, on the occasions when the world of cryptocurrencies intersects with the world in which most of us live, the news is generally bleak. While you may not know one side of a Bitcoin from the other, you probably know that its value has crashed over the last 13 months, you may even have heard about some of some of the larger cryptohacks (that is computer heists through which digital currencies belonging to investors are stolen from crypto trading exchanges). And over the last week or so, you may have read on mainstream news sites about the death of Gerald Cotton the CEO of Canada’s largest cryptoexchange QuadragaCX. The death of the CEO of a company that few had previously heard of, was news of course, because in his passing he had taken the passwords to the accounts of his customers with him. The result of this being that about $140 million of their money was stuck somewhere between this world and the celestial ether in which Mr. Cotton now resides. Of course, it wasn’t quite told like that. We were fed terms such as “private keys,” lack of “multi-signature protection,” “cold storage wallets” and more readily understandable – “cryptofraud”. Again!
    - Yigal Arnon & Co

  • Israel Chapter in The Virtual Currency Regulation Review

    Earlier this year, the Israel Tax Authority (ITA) issued two circulars, one on the taxation of digital tokens and the second addressing the taxation of utility tokens in initial coin offerings (ICOs). Additionally, in March, the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) released a detailed interim report by the Committee for the Regulation of Public Offerings of Decentralized Cryptocurrency Coins (Report) (with a follow-up report due to come out around October 2018). Moreover, it is expected that before the end of 2018, legislation will come into force that for the first time will see Israeli primary legislation define virtual currencies as financial assets and mandate licensing for related services, as is later discussed in detail.
    - Yigal Arnon & Co

  • Spring is coming for real estate registration in Israel

    Israel may be the “Start-up Nation” and a world-renowned center of technological innovation, yet for many years the procedures and conduct of the Israeli Land Registry have been trapped in the past.
    - Yigal Arnon & Co

  • PLATFORMS FOR HIGH NET WORTH INVESTORS IN ISRAELI HIGH-TECH

    Israeli hi-tech and its sources of funding have grown and diversified tremendously since the bubble burst in 2001 and over the last decade since the height of the financial crisis in 2007-2008.
    - Yigal Arnon & Co

  • NONDISCRIMINATION IN 5G STANDARDS

    Nondiscrimination has been the neglected stepchild of the FRAND commitment. Patent owners participating in standards organizations typically commit to license their technology on “fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory (“FRAND”) terms.”
    - Yigal Arnon & Co

  • Crash Course on Non-Disclosure Agreements

    Non-disclosure agreements are a crucial, but often overlooked, tool in allowing startup companies to grow, build strategic partnerships and explore new business relationships necessary to develop their product or bring it to market. These agreements are often short (sometimes only a page or two) and lead many founders to forego legal advice to get past this "formality" and begin working with the other party to the NDA. Yet, NDAs are important agreements with potentially far-reaching implications for the protection of a company's confidential information and intellectual property, and mishandling of NDAs can come back to haunt a startup years later.
    - Yigal Arnon & Co

  • Advocates Eli Greenbaum and Ezra Gross of Yigal Arnon & Co. in The Lawyer Special Report editorial

    An interview-style piece in The Lawyer, Law in Israel: moving beyond tech, quoting Eli Greenbaum and Ezra Gross:
    - Yigal Arnon & Co

  • Publication of Adv. Adrian Daniel's Commentary in Private Banker International on GDPR & Blockchain

    Publication of Adv. Adrian Daniel's Commentary in Private Banker International on GDPR & Blockchain.
    - Yigal Arnon & Co

  • Article in MEA Markets on GDPR & Israeli Law

    GDPR & ISRAELI PRIVACY LAW - KEY DIFFERENCES Yoheved Novogroder-Shoshan & Miriam Friedmann of Yigal Arnon & Co. outline the key differences between GDPR & Israeli Privacy Law.  mea_markets_-_gdpr__israeli_law_-_key_differences_14.05.2018
    - Yigal Arnon & Co
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