Barnea Blog

2021: Trends in Regulatory Compliance and Risk Management

April 25, 2021 / by Zvi Gabbay , Eran Elharar

2020 was a particularly challenging year due to the coronavirus pandemic. For corporate risk managers and compliance officers, the year posed additional challenges. Organizations had to contend with an alarming rise in cyberattacks, supply chain constraints, employee health and safety, corporate governance and compliance, and diverse risks relating to or deriving from various content worlds. Nevertheless, if 2020 has taught us anything, it is that risks to a corporation, regardless of their source, are intertwined.

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Categories: Regulation

Five Things You Didn’t Know about Impact Investing

April 11, 2021 / by Sagi Gross

In the last decade, impact investments have become an international trend to address global challenges in the areas of environment, welfare, health, employment, and education. In light of the development of the impact investments’ field, we recommend familiarizing yourself with several terms that may help when examining investments in general and impact investments in particular.

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Categories: Corporate | Regulation

Retail and Tech in a Post-COVID World

March 24, 2021 / by Barnea

2020 marked a monumental shift in consumer behavior, with the retail industry particularly affected by the global spread of COVID-19. Between nationwide quarantines and the looming threat of disease, retailers had to adapt quickly to survive the forced seclusion and distancing. While some have been building their e-commerce brands and marketplaces for years, others were less prepared and were left to either sink or swim.

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Categories: High Tech | Internet

Technology IPOs – A Meeting of Cultures at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

March 16, 2021 / by Michael Barnea

Israeli tech companies have recently joined the wave of initial public offerings on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. This is not the first time tech companies have gone public on the TASE and it will take some time to see if this is a real trend or a temporary phenomenon motivated by the tide of capital markets activity in the coronavirus era.

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Categories: Capital Markets

Proper Articles of Association – Now More Than Ever

March 2, 2021 / by Yuval Lazi

The coronavirus crisis, which hit both the Israeli market and markets globally, has been unsettling. It undermined existing collaborations and encouraged the creation of new ones. It weakened the inertia that drove many businesses and employees, and forced numerous entities to reinvent themselves, to initiate and to dare.

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Categories: High Tech

SPAC: A Dream Worth Half a Billion Shekels

February 21, 2021 / by Zvi Gabbay , Hagit Ross

In recent months, the IPO market has reached a boil. It seems anyone with any kind of business is dreaming about joining the Israeli stock market. Lets look at the figures. From 2008 (the outbreak of the subprime crisis) through 2019, 76 new companies entered the Israeli stock market through an IPO process (an average of approximately 6.33 companies per year). In 2020 alone, 27 new companies entered the Israeli stock market, and in January 2021, seven new companies entered the Israeli stock market*.

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Categories: Capital Markets

Temporary Procedure for Insolvency Procedures in Israel in Light of COVID-19

February 11, 2021 / by Michael Dubin , Liron Dahan

The coronavirus pandemic has wreaked extensive economic havoc on the activities of many businesses and households in Israel. According to data from the Commissioner of Insolvency Proceedings, 2020 brought a rise of about 41% in the number of applications to commence insolvency proceedings compared to 2019.

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Categories: Litigation

Can You Really Find a Sample Founders’ Agreement on the Web?

January 28, 2021 / by Yuval Lazi

Sample founders’ agreements are available online for download by anyone. Though there are numerous accessible founders’ agreements, a document downloaded from the web is not one you should rely on when establishing your new venture.

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Categories: High Tech | Start- Ups

Collecting Employee Information? It’s Time to Wake Up

January 12, 2021 / by Karin Kashi

Employers collect data about their employees. It starts with employees’ salary data, resumes, and work hours. It continues with fingerprints and images from security cameras, followed by employee meals and business trip information. Employers also collect medical information, personal messages on company phones, and location data of the company car for private trips. It goes on and on and on.

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Categories: Regulation

The Importance of Contracts in Israel

December 20, 2020 / by Barnea

Law has a major role in Israeli business. Israelis feel their freedom to act is determined by what is allowed under law, and this includes what has been agreed to in a binding agreement. Therefore, legal contracts form the basis of the Israel business environment. The existence or absence of a binding agreement are the first question Israelis would consider. If a legal agreement has been entered into, Israelis would feel obliged to respect it. If however, the discussions have not been concluded in an agreement, most Israelis would feel they are not yet obliged to proceed with the other party. This is a strong contributor to the creation of certainty when doing business in Israel.

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Categories: Corporate