Building on a strong foundation of 165 years of legal service, Carter Ledyard & Milburn offers its clients sophisticated legal advice within a culture that encourages innovative problem solving. We have a long history of providing legal services to foreign companies entering the U.S. market and have been providing legal services to Israeli-based companies for over 20 years. We bring our skills and imagination to bear on the needs and aspirations of our clients, today’s leading and emerging companies, institutions and individuals.
Our practice groups include corporate, securities, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, intellectual property, tax environmental, employment, media and technology, immigration, antitrust, real estate and bankruptcy. A significant portion of our firm’s practice involves representation of overseas-based clients and their U.S. affiliates.
We are easy to work with. Our clients stay with us because of the quality and efficiency of the service we provide, and because we understand and care about their business and affairs beyond purely legal matters. What distinguishes us from the firms with whom we compete is our ability to provide personal, partner-level service to all clients and matters, large and small.
Our Israeli practice group boasts a seasoned team of attorneys, including lawyers who are also qualified Israeli attorneys, with years of collective experience practicing law and advising Israeli clients, both in Israel and in the United States. At Carter Ledyard, we pride ourselves on personal service and accountability to the client. Our Israeli practice group will be responsible to you for all aspects of your business and will communicate with you continuously and directly even as they call upon attorneys in other practice areas at Carter Ledyard for expert advice.
Carter Ledyard understands the value of your existing relationships with your Israeli attorneys and accountants. We have a long history of interaction with Israel’s best professionals. This working relationship is an important factor in making sure that your activities in the United States are carefully calibrated with Israeli tax, accounting, government regulation, intellectual property, labor and compensation issues. Carter Ledyard’s long-standing relationship with these Israeli professionals provides you with a seamless Israeli/U.S. professional home that will work to prevent anything from slipping between the borders.
Our Israeli Practice Group stands ready to provide you with the personal guidance and advice you will need.
Representative Experience
B Communications Ltd.: in secondary sale of US$250 million of Bezeq shares.
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.: $250 million acquisition of Stellar Blu Solutions LLC.
Eltek Ltd.: Advised Eltek in a $10 million public offering on NASDAQ.
B Communications Ltd.: $800 million high yield rule 144A/Regulation S note offering, the first international offering of notes listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange; $489 million offering in Israel; and the $183 million sale to the investor group led by Searchlight Capital Partners.
Eltek Ltd.: $3.4 million offering.
EZchip Semiconductor Ltd.: $811 million merger with Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:MLNX).
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.: $35.3 million rights offering.
Internet Gold – Golden Lines Ltd.: $36.1 million debenture offering; and $28 million offering in Israel.
Magal Security Systems Ltd.: $23.8 million rights offering.
Magic Software Enterprises Ltd.: $54.7 million follow-on public offering. Barclays Capital and William Blair acted as joint book-running managers; and $35 million in private placement.
Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd.: $4 million acquisition of Israeli startup; and merger with SharpLink, Inc. (Nasdaq:SBET).
PainReform Ltd.: $20 million initial public offering on NASDAQ. Maxim Group and Joseph Gunnar & Co. were joint bookrunners for the transaction.
RADA Electronic Industries Ltd.: $8.5 million public offering. Chardan Capital Markets acted as underwriter; and $59.5 million public offering. Jefferies, Baird and Canaccord Genuity acted as joint bookrunners.
SuperCom Ltd.: $13.8 million public offering. Aegis Capital Corp. acted as the sole book-running manager of the offering.