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 in the US$22.6 billion public offering of 1,265,450 shares for Elbit Systems Ltd.
  • Jefferies and Citi, acting as joint bookrunners for B Communications, on the secondary sale of 160,000,000 shares of Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication Corp Ltd. for approximately US$250 million
  • 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

  • Boston Scientific on its US$540 million acquisition of SoniVie Ltd., a privately held medical device company
  • 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
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August 25, 2025 Recognition

Latham Leads H1 2025 Capital Markets League Tables

Firm’s Capital Markets Practice once again earns top legal advisor league table rankings across debt and equity products and industries globally in Bloomberg, Dealogic, Deal Point Data, and LSEG.