Michel Ohayon & Co., Attorneys-at-Law

Areas of Practice: Corporate Law, Securities Law, Capital Markets, Public Offerings, Private Placements, Investments, Mergers and Acquisitions, Commercial Contracts, Business Planning, High-Tech, Options, Employee Benefits, Commercial Law, Antitrust, Real Estate Law, Control Battles, Court Appearances, Arbitration, Mediation.

Firm Description: The firm was founded in 1996 by Attorney Michel Ohayon. It provides ongoing commercial advice to public and private companies in securities law and corporate law, as well as business law in various fields. The services include business negotiations and handling all legal aspects with a business and commercial orientation.

The firm handles the following areas:

• Issuance of securities to the public (representing issuers, underwriters, and stakeholders).
• Aspects arising from the implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Advising and accompanying restructuring processes in all their aspects in public companies, private companies, and family companies (arrangements for generational transitions).
• Advising on decision-making processes in companies (audit committees, boards of directors in companies and conglomerates) in complex transactions, transactions with stakeholders, changes in equity, dividend distributions, and share buybacks.
• Ongoing legal advice to institutional investors: provident funds, pension funds, and mutual funds.

The firm engages in litigation in courts and arbitrations in the field of corporate law, including: control battles, derivative lawsuits, minority lawsuits\/defenses, majority lawsuits\/defenses, companies in financial distress (stay of proceedings, creditor arrangements), securities law (disclosure obligations and class action lawsuits), and contract law.

The firm combines business consulting with legal litigation consulting. This combination allows for the analysis of business aspects through the lens of legal discussion and the analysis of legal discussion aspects through the business rationale.

Additional areas of practice handled by the firm: financial accompaniment from banking and non-banking institutions, complex business and contractual engagements, antitrust, distribution agreements and franchise agreements, tenders, labor law, and real estate law.

Languages: Hebrew, English