Hi Tech
The High-Tech department at Gideon Fisher & Co. specializes in managing high-tech issues for clients that include private companies, public companies, startups, private entrepreneurs, greenhouse companies, businessmen, and private and institutional investors, both from Israel and overseas.
The department assists clients in establishing and founding high-tech companies and provides them with regular support, specializing in a variety of technology-related transactions. These include venture capital transactions, joint ventures, investment agreements, mergers and acquisitions, various types of licensing agreements, commercialization of technology and intellectual property, technological collaboration and sales agreements in Israel and around the world.
The department accompanies high-tech companies during all stages of their development, from drafting the founders' agreement, establishing the company, drafting investment agreements and various commercial agreements, appropriately tailoring employment agreements and employee option plans, to negotiating merger and acquisition transactions. In addition, the department supports clients whose business is internet-related, including gaming, online bulletin boards, and forex, and assists them in all legal matters relevant to these types of companies.
The department's services include:
- Preparing founders' agreements
- Establishing start-up companies
- Protecting intellectual property
- Representing entrepreneurs vis-à-vis technology greenhouses
- Investment and loan agreements
- Due diligence
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Asset purchase agreements
- Preparing various agreements (software licensing, intellectual property commercialization, confidentiality agreements, option agreements for employees etc.)
