Overview
Founded in 1921, S. Horowitz & Co. has long been recognized as Israel’s premier law firm. With a team of exceptional and talented lawyers, qualified in a number of jurisdictions and speaking a variety of languages, S. Horowitz & Co. provides a full range of the highest level of corporate, commercial and dispute resolution services to international and domestic business and financial communities.
The firm specializes in acting on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, as well as in advising and providing representation on issues touching on, inter alia, administrative law, antitrust, banking, corporate real estate, financial services, insurance, public and private employment law, joint ventures, project and asset finance, tax, venture capital and intellectual property and acts for clients on a variety of disputes related to different sectors of industry.
The Legal 500 has described our corporate mergers and acquisitions practice as being “simply outstanding” with "excellent business and legal acumen that clients can rely on”, and has also recognized the “diversity of matters it handles, ranging from multi-million dollar exit transactions to complex commercial issues”. Chambers Global Guide has praised S. Horowitz & Co.'s banking and finance team as “an institution in Israel that really sets the gold standard” and further noted its “particular proficiency in complex syndicated financings”, with the firm’s corporate mergers and acquisitions practice and banking and finance practice being ranked in the first tier.
S. Horowitz & Co. has the most prominent intellectual property group of any major Israeli commercial law firm and the most highly respected litigation team in the country, recognized for its active, diverse, and vibrant practice. The litigation team represents many household names across numerous sectors in their most sophisticated and complex litigation, including in disputes that contain an international or multi-jurisdictional element. Chambers Global described our IP department team as “an outstanding practice that frequently represents blue-chip clients in all manner of IP issues, with special expertise in patent, copyright and trade-marks”.
The firm’s disputes practice is consistently ranked in the first tier and has likewise been praised by numerous international directories, with The Legal 500 describing the team as "outstanding" and recognizing it for its “uncompromising professionalism”. Chambers Global Guide describes “the strength of the litigators and the depth of the team of S.Horowitz as being outstanding" and also highlighted the firm’s “depth of resources and cross-border capabilities” and its “impressive performance in court”.
S. Horowitz & Co. represents international clients on major cross-border and domestic transactions and investments that require Israeli legal specialist knowledge and counsel.
For example, in the technology sector, we are advising the NYSE-listed technology company, Danaher Corporation, on the Israeli law aspects of its global M&A activity and we most recently served as its lead counsel on the acquisition of Frankfurt-listed AVT Technologies, which is based in Israel. We also acted for the TASE and NASDAQ listed company, B Communications Ltd., the controlling shareholder of Israel's largest telecommunications company, Bezeq, on a series of complex M&A/restructuring transactions, including negotiations with potential acquirors and investors and bond-holders, for the sale of the controlling stake of the company and overall investments relevant to it. Another significant transaction on which we advised was the merger of equals of Rhythm One Plc and Taptica Ltd (an Israeli company listed on the premium segment of the London Stock Exchange) via a statutory scheme of arrangement.