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Zohar Nevo
Partner Corporate & Finance
Zohar advises buy-side and sell-side clients in domestic as well as cross-border M&A transactions. He is a trusted advisor to several strategic buyers in a broad mix of industries including technology and the life sciences.
Zohar also advises emerging growth technology companies on a broad range of strategic matters including financing transactions, corporate governance and commercial transactions.
Before joining Hogan Lovells, Zohar practiced at a Boston-based law firm. Prior to that, he practiced in the corporate transactions department of a leading law firm in Israel.
Tavily, an innovative agentic search provider, on its sale to Nebius Group N.V. (NASDAQ: NBIS).
Firmus AI, Inc., an AI company for preconstruction design review, on its sale to The Nemetschek Group.
Backed Finance AG, a fintech company enabling compliant tokenized equities and ETFs, on its sale to Kraken.
Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) on its acquisition of Satori Cyber, a data and AI security company.
IronVest, Inc., an emerging market leader in consumer digital security and privacy, on its Series Seed-1 financing led by Norwest Venture Partners.
Link Ventures on its investment in Shalosh Labs Ltd. and its subsequent flip into Swan AI, a provider of AI-driven tools that optimize go-to-market processes.
Variantyx, Inc., a leader in molecular diagnostics, on various financing matters.
Aquant, Inc., an enterprise SaaS company, on various financing matters.
Akamai Technologies, a cloud company that powers and protects life online, on an agreement to acquire Ondat, a cloud-based storage technology provider.
BMW, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis on a joint venture to develop and operate a network of 30,000+ high-powered electric vehicle chargers across North America.
Go1, the Australia-based EdTech unicorn, on its acquisition of mobile learning app Blinkist.
Intel Corporation on a sale of minority interests in IMS Nanofabrication GmbH (IMS) to Bain Capital and TSMC.
Kenco Logistics, a third-party logistics group, in an investment by Pritzker Private Capital, a leader in family direct investing.
Mercedes Benz Group AG a joint venture with MN8 Energy to develop, own and operate a Mercedes-Benz branded network of 2,500+ high-powered electric vehicle chargers across the United States and Canada.
Green Triangle Forest Products in its US$700M sale to AXA IM Alts.*
Court Square Capital and United States Medical Supply in the sale of its urology division to Strive Medical.*
IronVest Inc. its acquisition of intellectual property assets from Abine Inc. and Obsecure Inc. *
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) on its acquisitions of digital PCR maker Combinati, Inc. and programmable dye platform pioneer Phitonex, Inc.*
Entegris (Nasdaq: ENTG) on the acquisitions of Sinmat, MPD Chemicals, and Global Measurement Technologies.*
Ovuline, Inc. (dba Ovia Health), a digital health company, in its sale to Labcorp (NYSE: LH).*
Hopper Inc. in its acquisition of B2B tour booking service provider PlacePass, Inc.*
Advanced Diabetes Supply in it sale to Court Square Capital.*
New-Indy Containerboard in the acquisition of Shoreline Container.*
Rand-Whitney Container LLC in the acquisition of the assets of Specialty Finance & Consulting Corporation.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.