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Meitar Law Offices Offices

Meitar Law Offices
16 ABBA HILLEL SILVER ROAD
RAMAT GAN 5250608
Israel
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Adv Assaf Oz

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972 3 610 3121 aoz@meitar.com View profile

Work Department

Corporate and Securities

Position

Partner

Career

Assaf Oz is a partner in the Corporate and Securities Group and in the Banking and Finance Group. He represents corporations in a wide variety of international and domestic corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity investments, equity and debt financings (including both public offerings and private placements), joint ventures and strategic collaborations, technology licensing, and distribution and marketing arrangements. In addition, Assaf specializes in the areas of banking and financing transactions, and has extensive experience representing both Israeli and foreign banks and financial institutions in a wide range of complex lending transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Assaf has worked on behalf of issuers and underwriters on initial public offerings and other offerings registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as offerings exempt from SEC registration pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S. 

In addition to his training at Meitar, Assaf worked as an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York for four years.

Assaf currently teaches a course in “Finance Transactions” at Tel Aviv University Law School, and previously taught “International Negotiation” at Tel Aviv University Law School, “High-Tech Law” at Bar-Ilan University Law School, and “Corporation Law” at the Hebrew University Accounting School.

Assaf has been ranked as a Leading Lawyer in Mergers and Acquisitions, Banking and Finance and Capital Markets by The IFLR 1000; ranked as an Up and Coming Banking & Finance Lawyer by Chambers & Partners; and recommended by The Legal 500 for Banking and Finance.

Languages

Hebrew and English

Education

University of Pennsylvania, PA (LL.M., Recipient of the Award for Excellence in the LL.M. Program (first in class), 2005);

Tel Aviv University, Israel (LL.B., 2000);

Tel Aviv University, Israel (B.A. in Accounting, magna cum laude, 2000)

Lawyer Rankings

Israel > Banking and finance

Noted for its prowess in both regulatory and transactional matters, Meitar Law Offices is routinely engaged by a deep roster of leading Israeli banks, credit card companies, and non-bank financial institutions. The team is jointly led by fintech and financial regulation expert Eyal Dotan, commercial loan agreement and project finance specialist Gal Feingold, complex lending transaction and M&A practitioner Assaf Oz, and Judith Gal-Or, who notably focuses on loan syndications, debt arrangements and credit portfolio securitisations.

Israel > Hi-tech and start-ups

‘A one-stop-shop for everything related to a start-up’, Meitar Law Offices secures strong reviews from domestic and multinational clients for the sheer breadth of its service offering. The group is additionally distinguished by its deep pool of tech-focused specialists and its extensive experience — notably, it represents approximately 1,000 start-ups. High-profile partners include corporate heavyweights Dan Geva and Dan Shamgar; corporate and securities specialist Itay Frishman, who handled a string of financing rounds over the past year; Raanan Lerner, who tech sources highlight as ‘key in making the firm what it is’; Alon Sahar, who is a 30-year transactional veteran; and Shira Azran, who is ‘very knowledgeable about the Israeli tech industry’. Also recommended are Aviv Avidan-Shalit, Asaf Harel and Assaf Oz.

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