"Kobi is an outstanding lawyer with profound IP and Technology Law expertise. His exceptional responsiveness and personal engagement set him apart, ensuring high-quality guidance that meets both legal and business needs. Kobi excels at bridging business gaps during complex transactions, providing comprehensive legal advice while maintaining a 'can-do' attitude and facilitating smooth outcomes."
Kobi is a partner in the Corporate and M&A Department and leads the Intellectual Property Practice.
Kobi represents and provides general counsel to public and private companies, private equity firms, and venture capital funds in a variety of cross-border corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, investment rounds, and capital markets transactions, with a special emphasis on intellectual property, cyber, and information technology matters. He also provides ongoing legal advice to companies at all stages of development on a variety of corporate and commercial issues, including corporate governance matters.
In addition, Kobi regularly advises on all aspects of intellectual property and technology law, including licensing of intellectual property rights, namely the commercialization and monetization of patents (including utility and design), trademarks, trade dress, copyrights, design rights, and domain names as well as commercial agreements throughout the entire product lifecycle, agreements involving the protection of trade secrets and other strategic engagements, such as joint ventures and complex collaborations. He has particular experience in the fields of internet law, AI, IoT, Big Data, Open-source software, Fintech, media and entertainment law, life sciences, and research & development activities.
Representative Experience
Since joining the firm, Kobi has been involved in the following representative matters:
Permira, in its acquisition of a majority interest in BioCatch, reflecting an enterprise valuation of $1.305 billion
Mobileye,in its $900 million acquisition of Mentee Robotics
Oaktree Capital Management and Awager in the sale of the latter to Aristocrat Leisure
Insight Partners, Square Peg, and Emerge Ventures in the sale of Deci.AI to NVIDIA Corporation
Vertex Ventures in the sale of Adaptive Shield to CrowdStrike
Amdocs, Amiti Ventures, and Singtel Innov8 in the sale of Flow Security to CrowdStrike
Cymbio in its acquisition by PayPal
Tene, and its portfolio company, Sharon Personal Care, in the sale of the latter to Eternis Fine Chemicals
BeyondTrust, a portfolio company of Francisco Partners and Clearlake Capital, in its acquisition of Entitle
GardaWorld, in its acquisition of Nonagon by way of a reverse triangular merger
Prime Energy,in its merger with Lahav Energy, reflecting a combined valuation of NIS 521 million
Challenge Investments in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Gaon Holdings from sellers, including Viola and Discount Capital
OHMK Medical Technology, part of the Haohai Group, in its acquisition of EndyMed by way of a reverse triangular (going private) merger
Community Fund in the negotiation process for the acquisition of IBC Unlimited (the deal value of the winning bid was NIS 1.05 billion)
Euclid Transactional on multiple underwritten transactions, including Lenovo’s$400 million acquisition of Infinidat and Blackstone’s acquisition of a majority interest in Priority Software from TA Associates and Fortissimo Capital, reflecting an enterprise valuation of $800 million
Prior to joining the firm, Kobi was involved in the following representative matters:
BlackRock in aspects of its $15.5 billion acquisition of a minority interest in a corporation controlled by Saudi Aramco and subsequent refinance, including the establishment of a $11.5 billion global medium-term note program on the London Stock Exchange and Rule 144A and Regulation S debt offerings of $4.5 billion
Caesars in its $4.4 billion sale of Playtika to Shanghai Giant Network Technology
KKR and its affiliate, Viridor Energy Group, in the private placement of £1.585 billion senior secured notes, as part of a £2.815 billion refinance, following its £4.2 billion leveraged buyout
KKR and its affiliate, Q-Park, in the Rule 144A and Regulation S €430 million senior secured fixed-rate notes offering and concurrent tender offer, following its €3 billion leveraged buyout
KKR and its affiliate, ContourGlobal, in the private placement of $500 million senior secured notes, following its $2.2 billion leveraged buyout
Centerbridge Partners and Gallatin Point Capital, in their NIS 1.7 billion acquisition of a majority interest in Phoenix from the Delek Group
Blackstone in several engagements for the distribution of its various retail funds
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Avihai Stolero in the NIS 850 million acquisition of Aeronautics, through a reverse triangular merger
3i Group, in its $300 million acquisition of Degania Silicone
Channel 10,in its merger with Reshet Media
Various investment banks, including J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup, as underwriters in SEC-registered debt offerings of $12 billion global notes by German state-owned development bank KfW
I Squared Capital and its affiliate Energia Group in the Rule 144A and Regulation S €600 million senior secured notes offering
Various note purchasers, including CVC Capital Partners, BainCapital, Barings, and PGIM, participated in the private placement of Infopro Digital of €115 million senior floating rate notes
Qualcomm Ventures in several of its investments, including in CoreTigo and CyberX
Claridge Israel in several of its investments, including in AlgoSec and Infinidat
Pitango in its investment in Venn
ClalTech in its investment in Yotpo
Apax Partners and one of its affiliates in the online retail sector, in its proposed IPO
Intel Corporation in the negotiation process and its tender offer for Mellanox Technologies (the deal value of the winning bid by NVIDIA Corporation was $6.9 billion)
Since joining the firm, Kobi has been involved in the following representative matters:
Permira, in its acquisition of a majority interest in BioCatch, reflecting an enterprise valuation of $1.305 billion
Mobileye,in its $900 million acquisition of Mentee Robotics
Oaktree Capital Management and Awager in the sale of the latter to Aristocrat Leisure
Insight Partners, Square Peg, and Emerge Ventures in the sale of Deci.AI to NVIDIA Corporation
Vertex Ventures in the sale of Adaptive Shield to CrowdStrike
Amdocs, Amiti Ventures, and Singtel Innov8 in the sale of Flow Security to CrowdStrike
Cymbio in its acquisition by PayPal
Tene, and its portfolio company, Sharon Personal Care, in the sale of the latter to Eternis Fine Chemicals
BeyondTrust, a portfolio company of Francisco Partners and Clearlake Capital, in its acquisition of Entitle
GardaWorld, in its acquisition of Nonagon by way of a reverse triangular merger
Prime Energy,in its merger with Lahav Energy, reflecting a combined valuation of NIS 521 million
Challenge Investments in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Gaon Holdings from sellers, including Viola and Discount Capital
OHMK Medical Technology, part of the Haohai Group, in its acquisition of EndyMed by way of a reverse triangular (going private) merger
Community Fund in the negotiation process for the acquisition of IBC Unlimited (the deal value of the winning bid was NIS 1.05 billion)
Euclid Transactional on multiple underwritten transactions, including Lenovo’s$400 million acquisition of Infinidat and Blackstone’s acquisition of a majority interest in Priority Software from TA Associates and Fortissimo Capital, reflecting an enterprise valuation of $800 million
Prior to joining the firm, Kobi was involved in the following representative matters:
BlackRock in aspects of its $15.5 billion acquisition of a minority interest in a corporation controlled by Saudi Aramco and subsequent refinance, including the establishment of a $11.5 billion global medium-term note program on the London Stock Exchange and Rule 144A and Regulation S debt offerings of $4.5 billion
Caesars in its $4.4 billion sale of Playtika to Shanghai Giant Network Technology
KKR and its affiliate, Viridor Energy Group, in the private placement of £1.585 billion senior secured notes, as part of a £2.815 billion refinance, following its £4.2 billion leveraged buyout
KKR and its affiliate, Q-Park, in the Rule 144A and Regulation S €430 million senior secured fixed-rate notes offering and concurrent tender offer, following its €3 billion leveraged buyout
KKR and its affiliate, ContourGlobal, in the private placement of $500 million senior secured notes, following its $2.2 billion leveraged buyout
Centerbridge Partners and Gallatin Point Capital, in their NIS 1.7 billion acquisition of a majority interest in Phoenix from the Delek Group
Blackstone in several engagements for the distribution of its various retail funds
Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Avihai Stolero in the NIS 850 million acquisition of Aeronautics, through a reverse triangular merger
3i Group, in its $300 million acquisition of Degania Silicone
Channel 10,in its merger with Reshet Media
Various investment banks, including J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup, as underwriters in SEC-registered debt offerings of $12 billion global notes by German state-owned development bank KfW
I Squared Capital and its affiliate Energia Group in the Rule 144A and Regulation S €600 million senior secured notes offering
Various note purchasers, including CVC Capital Partners, BainCapital, Barings, and PGIM, participated in the private placement of Infopro Digital of €115 million senior floating rate notes
Qualcomm Ventures in several of its investments, including in CoreTigo and CyberX
Claridge Israel in several of its investments, including in AlgoSec and Infinidat
Pitango in its investment in Venn
ClalTech in its investment in Yotpo
Apax Partners and one of its affiliates in the online retail sector, in its proposed IPO
Intel Corporation in the negotiation process and its tender offer for Mellanox Technologies (the deal value of the winning bid by NVIDIA Corporation was $6.9 billion)
Biography
Bar Admissions
Israel, 2016
New York, 2023
Texas, 2024
Education
LL.M., The University of Chicago, 2021
Gruss Lipper Fellow, recipient of the EGL Fellowship Award; Donald M. Ephraim Scholar in Law and Economics
LL.B., Reichman University, magna cum laude, 2014
B.A. in Business Administration (Information Technology specialization), Reichman University, magna cum laude, 2014
Prior Experience
Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, focusing on M&A, capital markets transactions and intellectual property.
Instructor and Teaching Assistant at Reichman University and Tel Aviv University in Corporate Law, Contract Law, Intellectual Property Law and Cyber and Information Technology Law.
