Amir Assali

Partner

Amir Assali is a partner at S. Horowitz and head of the capital markets department at the firm.

Amir has comprehensive and extensive knowledge and experience in representing entities supervised by the Israel Securities Authority, with emphasis on public companies traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, operating in various fields of activity.

Amir’s representation includes, among other things, accompanying Pre-IPO investment transactions, initial public offerings (IPO), capital and debt raising in the secondary market on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, control acquisition transactions and going-private transactions, reverse merger transactions into shell companies, tender offers, private placements and providing opinions and representation in preliminary proceedings with the Israel Securities Authority

"Well versed in listings of various financial products on the TASE and Nasdaq, and has additional expertise in debt financing arrangements"

Amir also advises managements, boards of directors and their various committees including advising special independent committees, accompanying interested party transactions, handling executive compensation including equity compensation, enforcement programs, various corporate governance aspects, and implementation of disclosure and reporting obligations.

Core Capabilities

Initial public offerings (IPO) – accompanying initial public offerings on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange of equity and/or debt;
Private and public offerings in the secondary market – accompanying secondary market offerings on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange of equity and/or debt;
Ongoing representation – ongoing representation of reporting corporations in corporate and securities law;
Mergers and acquisitions – accompanying merger and acquisition transactions involving reporting corporations;
Executive compensation – advising on formulation, adoption and implementation of compensation policies, including equity compensation plans;
Enforcement programs – accompanying formulation, adoption and implementation of enforcement programs in the field of corporate and securities law.

Notable Representations

Representing Minrav Group in numerous public and private debt offerings, including bonds and commercial papers, with an aggregate value exceeding one billion NIS;
Representing Issta in public and private offerings of equity and debt including convertible bond offerings with an aggregate value exceeding hundreds of millions of NIS;
Representing Apollo Power Ltd. in public and private equity offerings, including rights offerings, with an aggregate value of tens of millions of NIS;
Representing M. Aviv in public debt offerings with an aggregate value exceeding hundreds of millions of NIS;
Representing Yesodot Etanim in public equity and debt offerings, including through pledging of surplus from entrepreneurial real estate projects, with an aggregate value exceeding of tens of millions of NIS;
Representing dozens of companies, operating in various fields of activity, in initial public offerings (IPO) of equity and/or debt;
Representing buyers and sellers in several going-private transactions through reverse triangular mergers, with an aggregate value exceeding one billion NIS;
Representing investors in transactions for acquiring shell companies.

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Education

Tel Aviv University, L.L.M. in Commercial Law, with distinction, International Executive Program in collaboration with UC Berkeley, 2009
Tel Aviv University, LL.B, 2004