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Comprehensive comparison between closed-end funds and open-end funds

May 6, 2025 / by Roy Engel , Yakov Vilenski

Investment funds have a variety of legal structures customized to investors’ various needs and investment policies. The two main fund structures are closed-end funds and open-end funds, which differ in several material parameters, as explained below.

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Categories: Investment Funds

Internal Enforcement and Compliance Surveys: Essential for Organizations in Israel

May 5, 2025 / by Eran Elharar

In an era of stringent regulations and increasing legal risks, it has become essential for organizations to implement internal enforcement programs. However, in order for such programs to provide legal protection, they must be effective, customized and well-documented.

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Categories: Regulation

Innovation in Uniform: The Rise of Israel’s Defense-Tech Sector

April 2, 2025 / by Inbar Gorelick , Eden Cohen

The various wars that have taken place around the world in recent years, including the Russia-Ukraine war and the Swords of Iron War, have placed the DefenseTech sector in the spotlight. Amid changes in global security dynamics and escalating geopolitical tensions in different regions, technological gaps in the battlefield have revealed and magnified the criticality of DefenseTech, creating new opportunities for entrepreneurs and sparked significant interest from investors and venture capital funds.

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Categories: High Tech | Start- Ups

Trump’s Order May Refocus FCPA Enforcement on Foreign Competitors

March 30, 2025 / by Hadar Israeli , Ophir Hammer

President Trump’s recent Executive Order, which seeks to reduce enforcement of the anti-bribery and anti-corruption provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, may be perceived as a declaration of an expected reduction in enforcement measures against American companies suspected of making unlawful payments to foreign parties in order to gain business advantages.

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Categories: White Collar

The Italian Mafia, Interpol and unrecovered billions: the global battle over organized crime money

February 11, 2025 / by Shir Rozenzweig

In early January 2025, Interpol published its first Silver Notice seeking information about assets held worldwide by a senior member of the Italian mafia. The Silver Notice is the latest addition to Interpol’s suite of color-coded notices, the most well-known of which is the Red Notice seeking the arrest of wanted persons.

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Categories: White Collar

Phantom Stock: A Strategic Tool for Equity Incentivization

February 5, 2025 / by Ilan Blumenfeld , Shay Morhaim

In the contemporary landscape of talent management, organizations face major challenges in recruiting and retaining top-tier professionals. Equity incentive mechanisms have emerged as a sophisticated strategy to cultivate employee loyalty and align organizational performance with individual motivation.

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Categories: Corporate

Ten Q&A About Investment Management and Consulting Without a License

January 16, 2025 / by Eran Elharar

Recently, several cases of unlicensed investment management and consulting have made headlines. These include an instance where an administrative fine of NIS 130,000 was imposed for unlicensed investment management, and another case that led to an indictment. Such cases highlight the importance of understanding the legal rules and requirements in this field.

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Categories: Enforcement/white collar | Regulation

Regulated payment services & financial services in Israel – 2025 summary & outlook

January 1, 2025 / by Eran Elharar , Ori Rodriguez

2024 was characterized by a multitude of regulatory directives to payment companies and to payment initiation companies as part of the preparations for the licensing obligation that came into effect in June 2024.

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Categories: FinTech | Regulation

Unregulated Trust Mechanisms

December 5, 2024 / by Gal Livshits

We tend to think of a “trust” as a regulated contractual mechanism that people create through an agreement, a letter of authorization to a trustee etc. But is it possible to become part of a trust arrangement without it being formally regulated? The (perhaps surprising) answer is unequivocally “yes.”

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Categories: Corporate | Litigation | Private Clients

Tax innovations in Israel during 2024

October 10, 2024 / by Harel Perlmutter , Maya Carmi Lubartovski

Over the past year, alongside handling the economic repercussions of the war and issuing financial assistance to war victims and to evacuees, the courts, the legislative authority and the Israel Tax Authority continued their efforts in the legislative arena and issued several significant tax rulings. Following are the most important innovations relating to income tax, real estate tax and VAT.

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Categories: Tax

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