Erdinast Ben Nathan Toledano & Co is a full-service firm in Tel Aviv. It was established in 1928.
Focusses / specialisms
The firm advises on deals across many industries, such as banking, energy, and high-tech. It engages in transactions in banking & finance, capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, project development, and restructuring and insolvency. The firm has experience advising on Israeli, English, German, and American law.
Key clients
Key clients include Mizrahi-Telahot Bank, Avnon Group, Yesodot Fund, More Investment House, Bank Leumi, Bain Capital and BrightSource.
Research period review: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
In banking the firm advised on a swathe of lending transactions for both borrowers and lenders during the research cycle, with work covering real estate financing, acquisition financing, corporate financing and refinancing transactions.
Deal highlights: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
Bain Capital $185 million financing
Phoenix Insurance and Meitav Dash Investment’s NIS 1.5 billion financing
Client feedback: 32nd edition (2022/2023)
Banking and finance
"Very professional lawyers with excellent relationship both with the lenders and the client"
Capital markets: Debt
"One-stop-shop services. very good legal advice on capital market issues."
Capital markets: Equity
"Very deep of in the law and regulations and great ability to solve problems raised during the process of an IPO, bond issuance and any other process that involves securities aspects. "
"The team is excellent in providing advice with respect to securities issues, and obtaining approvals from the ISA. "
"Highly experienced, extensive knowledge, great availability."
"Great capital markets practice and highly professional. Available at all times."
Capital markets: Structured finance and securitisation
"They are very knowledgeable, professional, very responsive. Real partners of the company, they don't wait for us to initiate - they initiate, push us for action and remind us of actions and relevant events. They never keep us waiting and it feels that they go beyond what is expected of them."
Financial restructuring
"Support the process very well. Helped improve the financing terms. Managed the process."
Insolvency
"Extremely smart, practical and responsive."
Investment funds: registered funds
"Good understanding and guidance on the regulatory framework."
M&A
"Very professional and fast, responsive."
"We work exclusively with the firm in Israel. They are great, great lawyers, always available, think business and implement the legal aspects and not kill the deal just because of legal problems. Also, there are many other departments which are important for the deals: labour, tax, antitrust, financing, regulation, and so on."
"They have supported us in the whole process – DD, BCA, negotiation, F-4, F-1, company policies, corporate governance and everything we needed in this process. They had a significant role in making this merger happen."
"The team are very responsive, knowledgeable on the Israeli market, and provide creative and commercially sensible solutions to problems that arise."
"I got service like I was the only client."
"Very professional and fast responsive."
"Very swift; sharp and pragmatic advice."
"Fast and reliable. Services in all matters including HR."
"We are very satisfied with the level of work. While we are not a major company, we receive an excellent service. "
"The team we are working with is extremely professional, know M&A very well, know the market-acceptable terms, know the other teams in other law firms, have a good reputation, great commercial understanding, very attentive, accessible, and a pleasure to work with. They have practically become the ONLY law firm we work with. They are the 'house firm' that we work with on all deals. "
"The team that assisted are very professional, possess commercial thinking capabilities, and are accessible, smart, great negotiators and just great people to work with. "
PPP/PFI
"Response speed while maintaining a very high professional level."
Project development: infrastructure
"Very professional, fast work and highly educated, always reachable for advice."
Project development: Energy
"The firm are very knowledgeable in this area (energy and infrastructure), are very professional and know not only the legal aspects but also the business ones. "
"Adherence to times, down to details, and customer-oriented."
Project finance
"They have a very good and quite unique experience in the project financing area."
"Professional. Responsive."
"Excellent advisers. Dedicated. High fluency in the project finance practice."
“Services at the highest level. Professionalism and professional understanding. Reliability as a tool."
"Containing all details of the projects, in a manner that allows the treatment of various issues and especially the ones who are in the interfaces between the two projects and other stakeholders (EPC, O&M, suppliers, the state, etc) in a very time-effective and complete manner. "
"Very experienced in legal analysis, while taking into account all aspects of a transaction. Commercially oriented, they are an assistance in the structuring of transactions and negotiations, underlined by a broad view over a wide range of legal issues as well as techno-economical issues. Their ability to handle the interface of the legal and techno-economical and set the overall risk allocation is excellent. "
Restructuring and insolvency
"Innovative thinking, quick responses."
"Smart, diligent and adequately aggressive in arbitration."
Alon Binyamini
"Personal and professional service."
Roy Caner
"Sharp; pragmatic and focused."
Yaron Cohen
"Responsibility and professionalism."
"Very smart lawyer, professional, always reachable for advice."
"Down to details and customer orientation."
"Responsibility and professionalism."
Shay Dayan
"He stands by you, consults you, helps you with every difficulty in the process. "
Hagar Guri
"Very good understanding of the regulatory needs. Very good and fast response to our specific needs. Client-oriented."
Raanan Kalir
"Sharp and innovative thinking."
"Smart, responsive and practical."
Meni Kogan
"Very knowledgeable and professional, pushes forward and initiates, very responsive and helpful, fast and meets deadlines very well (while staying professional and thorough), great personality."
Irina Kushel
"Drive, reliability, timing, knowledge and thinking ahead."
Uri Mandel
"Professional. Responsive."
"Highly professional at project financing, excellent negotiations advocate, very dedicated. Excellent message delivery and calm."
"He listens to our needs, inquires patiently until thoroughly understanding, and implements correctly within the wording. He works in a precise and timely manner and is highly experienced and focused."
"Wide and excellent expertise in the field with great commercial experience, oriented towards finding solutions. "
"Very professional and friendly."
"Managed the complicated process very well, and gave the right advice and solution where needed."
"Problem-solving and understanding of politics in managing partnerships. On the details."
"Services at the highest level. Professionalism and professional understanding. Reliability as a tool."
Yuval Naim
"Very smart, problem-solving capabilities are high, communication skills outstanding."
Lior Oren
"He is a leader; he leads the teams on various deals at the same time with patience and attention. He's a great lawyer, always available; easy to deal with, accepts criticism in a great way, hard-working, delivers on time, outstanding negotiator, sees the business and understands our problems, does not kill the deal with the legalease issues."
"He is very dedicated, responsive and creative. He maintains a very commercial approach, while keeping all the legal bases well covered and protected. He is very detail-oriented, attentive and provides good service. He and his team know how to receive and implement any suggestions. He is extremely professional, and at the same time friendly, making jokes, a good negotiator, and has a lot of commercial and business feedback which is very helpful. He is very knowledgeable about M&A and the market standards, has a lot of international experience and mentality, and is very service-oriented. He is accessible, available to consult with even on small aspects, and his team is great and was selected with care. He is also good in finding solutions when the negotiations are stuck, since he evaluates the risks and benefits and knows to make concessions and at the same to insist all the way if the point is material. He can be very nice to deal with and still be very aggressive if needed. We enjoy working with him. He knows many lawyers in the M&A field, which allows him to reach an understanding 'off the table'. He is pretty efficient and in most cases there is no overcharging."
"He is practically our 'house lawyer', and is the first address at the firm for any questions or consultations. He is a true market leader in international M&A, a great lawyer and is actually a member of our PE team. He is very knowledgeable, a good and aggressive negotiator, who can also take a softer position if needed, very thorough and knows the materials well. He is also a genuine leader of his team, knows how to motivate them in an effort to meet deadlines and targets. He is very available whenever we need his advice, has good commercial understanding of the deal and our needs and translates these into the deal process."
"Over the years he has become a dear friend of the family. He is a trustworthy, excellent lawyer, very professional, good spirit, great commercial thinking, one of the team, knows our business very well, great negotiator – knows where to insist and where to withdraw. Always accessible, never too tired, patiently helps with various issues way beyond our immediate legal needs. Very friendly, has a solid network of colleagues and associates who want to help him in foreign jurisdictions. Certainly someone to run together with for the long run."
Gal Rub
"He is a professional, knows the material, and listens to our feedback. He is also extremely familiar with the various stakeholders involved and in this respect his support is invaluable."
Amnon Sorek
"Best lawyer I have ever worked with."
Doni Toledano
"He combines extensive legal knowledge with a thoughtful, commercially minded approach to challenges. He is a pleasure to work with."
Moty Yamin
"Very calm, reliable and with deep knowledge of the law and regulations. He is well known as an expert in securities law, and such reputation helps to solve problems and proceed. "
"He is professional, business-oriented, and available to us at any time."
"He is an expert in the field of capital markets law and practice. He is highly professional and his knowledge of the rules is exceptional, always stays up to date with regulatory developments."
