Herzog Fox & Neeman’s specialist technology practice leans into the firm’s formidable corporate, finance and capital markets offerings to provide comprehensive transactional support to tech companies and investors. With recent experience in all key industry sectors — including cybersecurity, Fintech, life sciences and cleantech — the group is a popular choice to represent a broad raft of start-ups, emerging companies and major multinational corporations. Dual-qualified in New York and Israel, department co-head Yair Geva is a go-to specialist for multi-jurisidictional transactions. Hanan Haviv co-heads the team and brings to bear extensive experience in corporate and securities law. Other key contacts include Yuval Zilber, who advised a slew of start-ups and investors in financings rounds during 2023/24; Yoni Frider, who is an increasingly prominent name for international work; commercial law specialist Gilad Majerowicz; and talented younger partners Raz Ofer and Miri Wang.
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Hi-Tech
Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers & Acquisitions
Position
Partner, Head of Tech Division
Career
Yair Geva heads Herzog Fox & Neeman’s Tech Division. He is a corporate transactional lawyer whose practice includes extensive representation in cross border mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, and general corporate counselling.
Yair is admitted to practice in New York and Israel. Prior to joining Herzog Fox & Neeman, he practiced with the M&A groups of two of the prominent firms in New York – Gibson Dunn and Davis Polk.
He is ranked among the top Mergers and Acquisitions and tech lawyers in Israel by IFLR1000, Chambers and Legal500, and has led some of the most notable recent transactions in the country, including PepsiCo in its $3.2 billion acquisition of Soda Stream, Checkmarx in its $1.15 billion acquisition by Hellman & Friedman, Forter in its $125 million series E financing round, Dynamic Yield in its over $300 million sale to McDonald’s, Loom Systems Ltd in its purchase by ServiceNow for $70 million, Alooma in its over $120 million sale to Google, Sygnia in its $250 million sale to Temasek, Tapingo in its $150 million sale to GrubHub, and United Therapeutics in its $250 million acquisition of SteadyMed. Yair also led EnteraBio’s recent IPO on Nasdaq.
Yair advises many of the most prominent early stage startups and growth companies in Israel in a range of industries including e-commerce, cyber, fintech & blockchain, biotech, and digital health. He works closely with entrepreneurs, CEOs and Boards of Directors on transactions, investments and other strategic matters.
Yair is a member of the Israeli Bar Internet and Cyber Committee. He earned his LL.M from NYU School of Law and his LL.B from Tel Aviv University, both magna cum laude. While studying at Tel Aviv University, he as a member of the Tel Aviv Law School Law Journal.
Languages
Hebrew, English
Memberships
Israel, 2004
New York, 2003
Education
New York University, LL.M (magna cum laude), 2003; Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law, LL.B (magna cum laude; member of the TAU's Law Review), 2002; Tel-Aviv University, School of East Asia (Chinese), 2002
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Key clients
- Deci.AI
- Spera Cybersecurity
- Pinecone Systems
- Codium
- Datafy
- Preql
- FrontEgg
- Komodor
- DoControl
- Ottopia Technologies
- Goldman Sachs
- Wix
- ThetaRay
- Remagine Media Ventures
- ARMO
- Stardom Ventures
- Augury
- Coronet
- BeeHero
- H2Pro
- Sportority
- Teridion
- Fabric
- Airobotics
- Autobrains
- D-fend
- Hyperwise Ventures
- K1 Investment Management
- Medisafe
- Kompas Ventures
- Varonis Systems
- Pliops
- Teridion
Work highlights
Represented Deci.AI in its $300m acquisition by NVIDIA.
Represented NVIDIA Corporation in its $40m investment in AI21 Labs.
Acted for Spera Cybersecurity in its acquisition by Okta.