Goodwin remains a top choice for Israeli companies, founders, and investors in technology and life sciences. Throughout 2024 and the beginning of 2025, the team has advised on several notable mergers & acquisitions, follow-on offerings, and multiple early- and late-stage financings for Israel-based or Israeli-founded companies, resulting in numerous recognitions and honors.
The Chambers Global 2025 guide highly ranked Goodwin for its Corporate M&A work in Israel, noting the firm’s “significant expertise advising clients in the technology and life sciences sectors.” Chambers also named partner Mayan Katz as “a leader in the firm’s Israel practice and a key point of contact.”
Goodwin practices and lawyers were also highly ranked across several categories in the 7th annual Legally Israel 100 Israel Desks League Tables, which recognizes international law firms that remain “steadfast destinations for Israeli clients and true centers of Israel- related expertise.”
Goodwin’s firm rankings include:
- #3 - M&A Volume
- #3 - IP
- #6 - Capital Markets Volume
- #8 - Hi-Tech
Goodwin’s lawyer rankings include:
- Mayan Katz - Recognized category
- Tom Beaudoin - Notable category
- Bill Schnoor - Notable category
Goodwin’s Israel practice provides solutions and produces results for Israeli companies and founders operating globally, private equity and venture capital firms investing in Israeli enterprises, companies doing business in Israel, and investors interested in investment and transactional opportunities in the region, by leveraging the experience of lawyers working across the firm’s practices areas and global office locations, including Israeli trained and qualified lawyers.
The firm’s select representations in 2024 include:
- Team8's $500 million new funds raising
- Abingworth, the life sciences franchise of global investment firm Carlyle, strategic development financing agreement with Teva
- Capitolis’ acquisition of Capitalab
- Bitsight’s acquisition of Cybersixgill
- Cybereason on their merger with Trustwave
- Super Home’s acquisition of Puls
- Markforged acquisition by Nano Dimension
- Colleen AI's acquisition by Entrata
- Exabeam's merger of equals with LogRhythm
- TA Associates sale of Priority Security to Blackstone
- Goodwin Advised both Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan as initial purchasers and joint book-running managers on Varonis Systems $460 million convertible senior notes offering
- Goodwin represented the lead investors in multiple company’s funding rounds including the Series C Financings of EON io, ZenCity, Ubeya, Hyro’s Series B Financing, Safe Superintelligence $1 billion financing, and Cyera’s Series D financing.
To learn more about Goodwin’s Israel practice, visit this link: Goodwin Israel Practice Materials Request.