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April 20, 2016
5 Steps to Increase Sales for Commerce Sites
E-Commerce sites of both B2C and B2B oriented businesses still remain a positive growth vector across many industries and concerns. This will continue as more and more locations are provided with access to the Internet and as the bandwidth available correspondingly increases. However, the rising traffic is only one small factor in increasing overall e-commerce sales.
April 17, 2016
Adv. Yuval Lazi to represent Barnea as a judge on "Demo Day"
Adv. Yuval Lazi will participate tomorrow as a judge at the final event of the Startau elite entrepreneurship program "demo day".
This program is a unique acceleration program intended for young entrepreneurs, whose involvement in the program commences at concept stage. The program gives these young entrepreneurs the tools and knowledge to advance the concept to the point where it is ready for investment within three months.
Among the judges will be Samsung Venture Invesment, Krypton Venture Capital and Deutsce Telekom.
April 12, 2016
A New Guidelines Issued by the Israeli Tax Authority
The Israeli newspaper TheMarker interviewed our head of internet department, to discuss the new guidelines issued by the Israeli Tax Authority, according to which shall begin collecting VAT and income taxes from foreign companies which conduct substantial business over the internet in Israel, such as Facebook and Google.
April 12, 2016
Legal Business: Israel 2016
The Legal Business magazine has dedicated its April edition to Israel, with a focus on current topics and trends in the country. Simon Jaffa was interviewed regarding Israel's high- tech industry.
April 12, 2016
Taxation of E-commerce: Israeli Tax Authority Issues New Circular
A few weeks ago, the ITA published a new circular which provides guidelines for the taxation of foreign corporate entities operating in Israel via the internet
April 11, 2016
China's Fosun to buy Dead Sea cosmetics
Yesterday, the signing ceremony of the Share Purchase Agreement for the sale of Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories Ltd. to Fosun (China), for approximately NIS 290 million, was held in Jerusalem. Micky Barnea, Ariella Dreyfuss and Itay Gura from our firm represented Kibbutz Mitzpe Shalem, one of the selling shareholders.
April 10, 2016
Angel Investor – Important Factors to Ensure Your Money Is Best Invested
Israel is brimming with high tech ideas and you want to be part of the action, one way to do so is by providing a start-up with early seed money.
But you need to protect your investment.
April 6, 2016
The watershed of the purchasing group- Interview with Ariel Nadler
A conversation with Ariel Nadler regarding purchasing groups and the pros and cons thereof.
April 5, 2016
Must-Have Legal Checklist for Startups
Building a startup company takes vision and great ideas. But before you can get up and running, it also requires legal understanding and planning. Startups need to go through steps to protect the owners and the organization. Before you start doing business, make sure you have worked through these preliminary steps.
April 3, 2016
Yuval Lazi to participate in the student entrepreneurship program
As an expert in advising entrepreneurs, Yuval Lazi will be a mentor in an evening event involving 40 participants in the student entrepreneurship program at the University of Tel Aviv. The event will be held on Tuesday 05/04/16 at 6pm at Tel Aviv University
April 1, 2016
Enforcement Agreement – Is a Confession Required?
An article examines the willingness of the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) to enter into an enforcement agreement without requiring the violator to confess to the offense or assume responsibility for it. It further argues that the criteria applicable to administrative enforcement do not necessarily overlap with those governing criminal enforcement, and that no correlation between the two should be assumed. In addition, the article compares the enforcement agreement policies of the ISA and the United States. It concludes that enforcement agreements without an admission of liability are not inherently illegitimate, and that intervention in the ISA's discretion would be justified only where the enforcement agreement is fundamentally flawed.
March 27, 2016
From a Start-Up Nation to a Cyber Security Nation: The Evolution of Israel as a Security Leader
Most people who think about leading global players in online security concerns think big: the United States, China, and Russia. Quietly, though, Israel has emerged as a world leader in this area. Known as “Start-up Nation” since the release of Dan Senor and Saul Singer’s 2009 book of the same title, Israel has created a culture of technological development and growth. It promotes learning and understanding in technology, both culturally and through its recruitment of top minds in service to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), resulting in a country continually pushing the technological curve forward.
March 27, 2016
Barnea & Co. represented Continuity Software
Barnea represented Continuity Software in a transaction for the sale of the company to Kedma Capital for an amount of NIS 160 million. Continuity Software is the leading provider of service availability risk management solutions.
Representing Continuity Software- Adv. Micky Barnea and Adv. Ariella Dreyfuss. Adv. Yuval Lazi represented Kedma Capital.
March 22, 2016
Algorithmic Trading - An article by Moran Bickel
In recent months the ISA has stopped the activity of many algo-trading companies, because their businesses constitute investment portfolio management without a license required by law. In an opinion article in Bizportal, Adv. Moran Bickel argues that the ISA should create a specific regulatory system in order to assess algo- trading companies.
March 22, 2016
The Israel Securities Authority bans binary options
In a letter circulated yesterday to companies engaged in the binary options industry, ISA informed these companies that it has decided to completely halt binary option trading in Israel.
March 20, 2016
Latest changes in the process of hiring interns at law firms
In an opinion article in Calcalist Magazine by Adv. Zohar Lande, Partner and Head of the Litigation Department in our office, he discussed the latest changes in the process of hiring interns at law firms. According to Zohar, despite shortcoming in these changes, regulatory intervention is necessary.
March 17, 2016
Every country in crisis is an opportunity for invesotrs?
Adv. Gal Oren was interviewed by the prominent Israeli business newspaper, Globes, for an article regarding the financial opportunities to be found in countries suffering economic crises.
March 15, 2016
Israel Broadens Definition of Accredited Investor
The prestigious Bloomberg BNA’s World Securities Law Report published an article by Ron Shuhatovich discussing the recent order of the ISA regarding the accredited investor definition.
March 14, 2016
Israeli VAT Taxation of Inbound e-Commerce and Digital Services
Yesterday the Israeli Ministry of Finance opened a consultation process in respect of draft legislation aimed at amending the Israeli VAT legislation, introducing VAT liability on out of state e-commerce and digital services providers that provide electronic and digital products and services into Israel. This, even if such providers do not have any place of business in Israel.