| Biography:
Yuval Tal is a partner in the Corporate Department, and is the resident partner in our Hong Kong office. He is a general corporate and securities lawyer with diverse experience in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, international transactions, and corporate and real estate finance.
Yuval's practice includes representing U.S. and foreign clients on financing, mergers and acquisitions (public and private, debt and equity), reorganizations and structured finance. He represents clients from their formation through their sale or public offering. He also advises his clients on day-to-day operational matters, including internal structuring, commercial transactions, employment, consulting arrangements and equity incentive programs. Yuval represents financial institutions as well as public and private companies. He has represented clients in diverse industries ranging from hotels to medical devices, from telecommunications to weight reduction to apparel.
In connection with his extensive experience in representing private equity and venture capital funds, Yuval has represented United States, European and Israeli-based funds such as J.P. Morgan, Starwood Capital, Colony Capital, DLJ, Thor Urban Retail Fund, Big Flower, Star Ventures, Formula Ventures and Giza Venture Capital in structuring, restructuring, managing and disposing of investments in Israel, Europe, and the United States.
Yuval is also a member of Proskauer's Lodging and Gaming Practice Group and has worked on transactions involving hotel development and construction, licensing and franchising, management, acquisition and sale, restructuring and public offerings of hotel and casino companies. Yuval has worked on projects involving Accor, Caesar’s/Harrah’s, Colony Capital, Garret Group, Hilton, Hyatt, Inter-Continental, Raffles, Starwood Capital, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Swissotel, Wyndham and many others, both in and outside the U.S. Yuval has worked on single and multi-property transactions and regularly represents both owners and managers. Recent and current projects include Accor's $1.3 billion sale of Red Roof Inn; the $625 million sale-and-management-back transaction for eight US Sofitels between Accor and a venture of Gem Realty Capital and Whitehall; the sale-and-management-back transaction of the Crowne Plaza Times Square; a $300 million plus development of a mixed-use property, including an ultra luxury hotel in New York City; and the development of a major mixed-use property in Israel.
Yuval’s practice also includes licensing and franchising transactions, and he has done so for high-tech and bio-tech companies as well as for clients in other industries.
Yuval is a member of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he served on the Committee on Hotels and Tourism as its secretary.
Prior to rejoining Proskauer in 1999, Yuval practiced law in Israel, representing Israeli clients in transactions in Europe and the United States and European and United States-based clients in transactions in Israel. He handled transactions for major publicly traded Israeli companies such as Clal (Israel) Ltd., Card Guard AG, Kitan Consolidated Ltd., Orckit Communications Ltd., ECI Telecom Ltd., Scitex Corporation Ltd. and Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. Since joining Proskauer Yuval has continued to represent Israeli clients on a wide range of corporate and securities matters, such as the Swiss public offerings of Card Guard, as well as its acquisitions in the United States, the public offering on NASDAQ of Ituran Location and Control Ltd. which was completed in September 2005, the public offering of BioCancell Therapeutics Inc. on the Te-Aviv Stock Exchange in 2006, and most recently, the public offering of Advanced Technology Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, on the AMEX.
Following the completion of his legal studies at Hebrew University, Yuval clerked for the Honorable Meir Shamgar, the Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court. Yuval later came to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship, and received LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. He received numerous academic awards, and was Editor-in-Chief of the Hebrew University Law Review. He is admitted to practice law in New York and in Israel.
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