Combining ‘deep legal expertise, commercial insight, and a highly collaborative team culture’, Herzog Fox & Neeman is well-positioned to advise on many of the largest and most sophisticated cross-border transactions in the market for corporates and private equity firms. The ’innovative and experienced’ Ran Hai takes the lead on many international matters, including within the energy and financial services sectors. Nir Dash co-heads the team alongside Hai, combining capital markets and corporate expertise to good effect on market-leading public company M&A. Other recommended practitioners include Hanan Haviv and Yair Geva, who both specialise in technology M&A; Asaf Nahum, for public and private M&A, including in highly regulated sectors; Michal Herzfeld, who excels at advising large international financial sponsors on their inbound work; and the ‘technically strong and creative’ Adam Salkin.
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Work Department
Commercial
Corporate
Mergers & Acquisitions
Position

Partner, Co-Head of Corporate & Securities

Career

Ran Hai co-heads the Corporate and Securities department. Ran has substantial experience in all aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, investment and joint venture transactions. He has advised on several of the largest M&A and corporate transactions to take place in Israel in recent years, involving both local and major foreign companies, including multi-nationals.

Ran also represents on a regular basis some of the largest private equity and venture capital funds in their portfolio investments and provides ongoing corporate and transactional advice to a number of the firm’s leading clients.

Ran was recognized as a leading practitioner for his M&A and private-equity work by Chambers and Partners, Legal500 and the International Financial Law Review (IFLR).

Ran previously worked in the corporate department at the London offices of Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringer, where his practice focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, dispositions and private-equity transactions.

Languages
Hebrew, English
Memberships
Israel, 2002
Education

Tel Aviv University, Israel, LL.B (cum laude), 2001

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • 'The team is adept at advising on cross-border corporate transactions involving international stakeholders.' 'The practice distinguishes itself through a combination of deep legal expertise, commercial insight, and a highly collaborative team culture.' 'The exceptional team is very creative, thinking outside-the-box with a unique approach.' 'Ran Hai is innovative and experienced. He always manages to balance the legal risk with the desired commercial result and get us the best result possible each and every time.' 'Nir Dash is very smart and attentive.' 'Adam Salkin is hardworking, technically strong and creative.'

Key clients

  • Microsoft Corporation JPMorgan Chase Bank LinkedIn Corporation Dell GE Healthcare PepsiCo Inc. UBS Porsche SE TD Bank McKinsey & Company TPG Thoma Bravo Software AG Israel Corporation Ltd. Pango Brookfield Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries 3D Systems Corporation Rockwell Automation Macquarie Capital Mubadala Investment Company Leonardo DRS Inc. Synergy Renewable Energy Ltd. ST Engineering Israel Electric Company Applied Systems Oddity Tech Ltd. (formerly, Il Makiage Cosmetics) Doorloop Inc. Doron Ofer Neogames Thomas H. Lee Partners Clearhaven Partners Glassbox Ltd. Nayax Eurodrive Holdings Ltd. Altshuler Shacham Plus500 Ltd. Superbet 888 Holdings Plc Clariant AG OpenWeb Paz Oil Company Phoenix Holdings Meshek Energy – Renewable Energy Ltd. Poalim Equity Urgent.ly Inc. Shikun & Binui Harry Gross Clal Leumi Partners Level Access Nobul AI Corp. Alliance Ventures Sportority Limited Dremio Corporation Apolicy AppHub Medisafe Augury Inc. Snyk Limited Nvidia Corporation Varonis Systems New Enterprise Associates BAE Systems plc Wix.com Airobotics Renesas Electronics Corporation Embracer Group Groundwork BioAg AMI Fund (Apax Partners) Manor Evergreen Limited Partnership Investment Fund Aristocrat Leisure Limited Menora Mivtachim Holdings Ltd. Milgam Group

Work highlights

Advised Superbet on its €1.3bn refinancing from Blackstone and HPS to support global growth, tech investment, and M&A, involving complex restructuring across jurisdictions.