Capital Markets and Public Offerings - Israel

Goldfarb Seligman is Israel’s leading law firm in the capital markets and public offerings field.

The firm’s attorneys regularly advise on public offerings and capital raising in the Israeli capital market, and have acquired extensive experience regarding the handling of various extents of public offerings – from modest initial public offerings, through public offerings worth over a billion U.S. dollars – for a wide array of clients, including holding groups, large Israeli companies which operate in  various fields, and young expanding companies.

The firm’s legal teams provide ongoing securities law advice to dozens of public companies, and represent issuers and underwriters. The attorneys possess unique professional expertise regarding complex issues of corporate law and securities law, and have extensive experience in the providing of solutions and professional opinions relating to M&A transactions, spin-offs and stakeholder transactions, corporate governance programs and their implementation (including internal enforcement programs in the securities field), insider trading and the implementation of disclosure and reporting duties. In addition, the attorneys handle all types of financial assets and the legal aspects involved in their issuing and holding, including synthetic securities, CDOs/CLOs, securitization of cash flows, hybrid capital instruments, and revenue-based securities.

The firm’s attorneys possess experience and expertise in the representation of clients before regulatory authorities and financial institutions in relation to complex transactions, and also specialize in the handling of negotiations with investors, underwrites, the Israel Securities Authority and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

In recent years, the firm’s legal teams have led many of the largest and  utmost significant public offerings in the Israeli market, and Goldfarb Seligman, including many of the senior partners and attorneys of the capital markets practice, has consistently been ranked as Israel’s leading law firm in the capital markets practice, by international and local rankings such as Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500, IFLR 1000, BDICode, Dun’s 100 and more.

"One of Israel’s leading firms with excellent capital markets capabilities."

The Legal 500 | 2020

"Premier capital markets group with excellent expertise."

Chambers & Partners | 2019

"One of the strongest firms in Israel’s capital markets space."

The Legal 500 | 2018

"Market-leading practice that is renowned for its capacity to handle both local and international capital markets matters."

Chambers & Partners | 2017

"Highly acclaimed team with a leading capital markets practice."

Chambers & Partners | 2016