Gilad Zohari advises clients on a full spectrum of complex capital markets and M&A transactions, often with an Israel nexus.

Gilad leverages extensive deal experience and his commercial approach to guide public and private companies, private equity firms, investment banks, and strategic investors on:

  • IPOs and follow-on equity offerings
  • Block trades
  • Private placements
  • Non-registered equity offerings
  • Cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures 
  • Strategic investments
  • Public company SEC reporting
  • Hostile takeover and activism defense
  • General corporate matters

Before joining Latham, Gilad served as a clerk to Hon. Justice A. Grunis (ret.), President of the Supreme Court of Israel.

Gilad’s experience includes advising:

Capital Markets

  • The underwriters on an underwritten public offering by a selling shareholder of Similarweb
  • Jefferies on the sale by Centerbridge Partners and Gallatin Point Capital of up to 21.5 percent of their shares in Phoenix Holdings
  • The underwriters on the US$93 million underwritten public offering for Nayax, a global commerce enablement, payment, and loyalty platform
  • Jefferies on a NIS242 million secondary offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
  • Enlight Renewable Energy on its US$252 million IPO on Nasdaq
  • monday.com on its US$724 million IPO on Nasdaq
  • Global-e on its US$375 million IPO on Nasdaq
  • The underwriters on Similarweb’s US$176 million IPO on NYSE
  • NeoGames on its:
    • US$94 million IPO on Nasdaq
    • US$143 million secondary offering on Nasdaq
  • Nayax on its US$237 million IPO on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
  • The underwriters on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange’s NIS225 million IPO on the TASE
  • The initial purchasers on Max Stock’s NIS621 million IPO on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, alongside a Rule 144A/Reg. S global offering
  • Fiverr on its:
    • US$110 million IPO on NYSE
    • US$120 million follow-on offering on NYSE
  • The underwriters on Audiocodes’ US$91 million follow-on offering on Nasdaq
  • Itamar Medical on its US$40 million IPO on Nasdaq

M&A Transactions

  • Level Access, a digital accessibility solutions provider, in acquiring UserWay, a publicly traded pioneer in accessibility AI technologies
  • Doral Renewables, a leading US developer, owner, and operator of renewable energy and storage projects, on a US$400 million minority equity investment by Dutch pension APG on behalf of the largest Dutch pension fund ABP
  • WalkMe, an Israel-based leader in digital adoption platforms (DAPs), on its US$1.5 billion acquisition by SAP SE
  • CyberArk, an identity security company, on its US$1.54 billion acquisition of Venafi, a leader in machine identity management, from Thoma Bravo
  • NVIDIA, a global technology company, on:
    • Acquiring Run:ai, an Israel-based workload management and orchestration software provider
    • Acquiring Cumulus Networks, a provider of software for modern networking
  • NeoGames, a provider of end-to-end iLottery and iGaming solutions, on its US$1.2 billion sale to Aristocrat Leisure
  • Ceragon Networks on its successful defense of Aviat Network’s hostile takeover attempt
  • ironSource, an Israel-based software company focused on app monetization and distribution, on its US$4.4 billion merger with Unity Software
  • Global-e on its US$500 million acquisition of Flow Commerce, a technology-based, cross-border e-commerce software solution for emerging brands
  • 888 Holdings on its £2.2 billion acquisition of non-US assets of William Hill, a UK-based company offering gaming, betting, online casino, and poker sites
  • Mellanox Technologies, a computer networking products supplier, on its US$7 billion sale to NVIDIA
  • Searchlight Capital Partners on its US$3.4 billion acquisition of the controlling stake in Bezeq, the Israeli telecoms company
  • CVC Capital Partners on its US$400 million acquisition of a minority stake in ironSource, an online software distributor
  • Baxter International on acquiring Cheetah Medical, a developer of non-invasive solutions for monitoring cardiac output and hemodynamics in critically ill patients
  • UBQ Materials on its US$170 million funding round led by TPG Rise, TPG’s global impact investing platform
  • Sapphire Ventures on its US$150 million Series D financing of monday.com

Bar Qualification

  • Israel
  • New York

Education

  • LLM, Harvard Law School, 2016
  • LLB, Tel Aviv University Buchman School of Law, 2014

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Hebrew