Jonathan Achiron

Partner

Profile

Jonathan Achiron is a partner in the corporate and M&A department.

Jonathan specializes in cross-border private and public mergers and acquisitions, corporate and commercial law, high-tech companies, and private equity and venture capital investments.

Jonathan has a comprehensive broad-based corporate practice that involves counseling clients in cross-border transactions, public offerings and exchange listings in Wall Street of both private and TASE-listed Israeli companies, corporate finance, start-ups and technology.

Jonathan provides ongoing corporate counseling to corporations through all stages of development on a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters, including private equity investments, venture funding transactions, financing and credit agreements and various day-to-day corporate governance, regulatory and commercial advice.


Representative Experience

  • Representation of Guesty Inc., in its US$ 170 million Series E financing round, co-led by Apax Digital Funds, MSD Partners, and Sixth Street Growth, together with existing investors including Viola Growth and Flashpoint.
  • Representation of More Investment House Ltd. in its investment, as part of a $100 Million Series D equity round in Verbit.AI Inc.
  • Representation of Apax Partners Israel in its acquisition of 45% of Infinity Labs, from Matrix, reflecting a company value of NIS 375 million.
  • Representation of Varana Capital VC in co-leading a US$ 74 million equity round, together with Intel, Samsung, and Porsche in TriEye Ltd., a developer of short-wave infrared technology.
  • Representation of Guesty Inc., a leading developer of automated property management solution, in a series of acquisitions that included (i) acquisition of assets from Kigo Inc., a US company, including the purchase of the entire share capital of its Spanish subsidiary, Kigo Rental Systems SL.; (ii) acquisition of HiRUM (Australasia) Pty Ltd. and HiRUM Intellectual Pty Ltd., Australian companies; (iii) acquisition of YieldPlanet S.A., a Polish company; and (iv) acquisition of American startup MyVR Inc..
  • Representation of More Provident Funds in leading a US$ 35 million Series B financing round in Cybersixgill.
  • Representation of Ayalon Insurance Company in its sale of a 20% minority stake in Meitav Pension Fund to Meitav Dash Investment House in consideration for NIS 120 million.
  • Representation of Uniphore Technologies, the leader in Conversational Automation, in an all-cash acquisition transaction of Jacada Ltd., a leading provider of real-time agent assist solutions.
  • Representation of DefenseCode, a Croatian company specializing in application security, in its acquisition by WhiteSoure Ltd.
  • Representation of Uniphore Technologies in its acquisition of Colabo Inc., an AI-powered knowledge automation solution.
  • Representation of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), owner of the KFT, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell fast food brands, in its acquisition of Dragontail Systems (AUX: DTS) for AU$93.5 million.
  • Representation of the private equity firm, Hellman & Friedman, in the purchase of the Israeli cyber security company, Checkmarx Ltd., in consideration of US$1.15 billion.

Biography

Bar Admissions

New York, 2010
Israel, 2008

Education

LL.M., Magna Cum Laude, Northwestern University School of Law, 2009
LL.B., Magna Cum Laude, Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2007

Prior Experience

Prior to joining EBN, Jonathan was an associate at the Mergers and Acquisitions group of the Israeli law firm Meitar, Liquornik, Geva Leshem Tal, and prior to that at the Capital Markets and Merger and Acquisitions group of the New York-based law firm Sullivan & Worcester.

Languages

Hebrew, English, Italian