Adv. Rona Bergman Naveh specializes in local and international financing transactions and advises on large-scale financing transactions in diverse fields. Among others, she represents clients in financing transactions in the fields of hi-tech, industry, energy, infrastructure, real estate and hotels, as well as large and complex transactions combining the creation of joint ventures ahead of purchases, M&A, corporate aspects and financing arrangements.
Rona specializes in various types of financing transactions, representing banks and funds on the one hand and large borrowers on the other, both local and international. In addition, she represents public, private and government companies in complex mergers, spin-offs and reorganizations, investment transactions, sales of operations and shareholder agreements. Rona also advises Israeli companies on corporate law, dividend distribution, securities issuance and debt arrangements.
In addition, Rona specializes in privatization procedures by the State of Israel and the acquisition of companies in privatization processes, and has represented the State of Israel or the bidders in the vast majority of the major privatizations carried out in Israel in recent decades.
Over the years, Rona handled complex financing transactions, including: representing Community Fund as part of a group of investors in the acquisition of control of Keter Plastic; representing Community Fund in the acquisition of a portion of the shares of the Bazan Group; representing Bank Of Montreal as part of a consortium of lenders in providing billions of dollars in loans to the Nuvei Group; representing Sixth Street Partners in financing provided to the Avid Group; representing the investment fund Battery in financing the acquisition of Biodata (Labguru) by Titian; and many other transactions.
Rona has a long-standing reputation and, in addition to her professional activities, she lectures at the Israel Bar Association’s advanced professional training courses, at courses for directors and legal advisors, as well as at courses at the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University and Bar Ilan University on corporate law, in particular on corporate division aspects and financing transactions. Rona has published articles on matters common to financing and corporate law.
LL.M., Tel Aviv University, Israel, 1998
LL.B., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 1992
Israel Bar Association, 1994
