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A shareholder has a general duty to refrain from depriving any other shareholder of their rights as a shareholder. In addition, any
controlling shareholder, any shareholder who knows that it possesses the power to determine the outcome of a shareholder or class vote and any
shareholder who, pursuant to the company’
s articles of association has the power to appoint or prevent the appointment of an office holder in the
company, is under a duty to act with fairness towards the company.
Anti-Takeover Provisions; Mergers and Acquisitions
Merger. The Companies Law permits merger transactions with the approval of each party’s board of directors and shareholders.
Under the Companies Law, a merging company must inform its creditors of the proposed merger. Any creditor of a party to the merger
may seek a court order to delay or block the merger, if there is a reasonable concern that the surviving company will not be able to satisfy all of
the obligations of the parties to the merger. Moreover, a merger may not be completed until all of the required approvals have been filed by both
merging companies with the Israeli Registrar of Companies and (i) 30 days have passed from the time both companies’
shareholders resolved to
approve the merger, and (ii) at least 50 days have passed from the time that the merger proposal was filed with the Israeli Registrar of
Companies.
Tender Offer.
The Companies Law requires a purchaser to conduct a tender offer in order to purchase shares in publicly held
companies, if as a result of the purchase the purchaser would hold more than 25% of the voting rights of a company in which no other
shareholder holds more than 25% of the voting rights, or the purchaser would hold more than 45% of the voting rights of a company in which no
other shareholder holds more than 45% of the voting rights. The tender offer must be extended to all shareholders, but the offeror is not required
to purchase more than 5% of the company’
s outstanding shares, regardless of how many shares are tendered by shareholders. The tender offer
generally may be consummated only if (i) at least 5% of the voting rights in the company will be acquired by the offeror and (ii) the number of
shares tendered in the offer exceeds the number of shares whose holders objected to the offer. The requirement to conduct a tender offer shall not
apply to (i) the purchase of shares in a private placement, provided that such purchase was approved by the company’
s shareholders for this
purpose; ; (ii) a purchase from a holder of more than 25% of the voting rights of a company that results in a person becoming a holder of more
than 25% of the voting rights of a company, and (iii) a purchase from the holder of more than 45% of the voting rights of a company that results
in a person becoming a holder of more than 45% of the voting rights of a company.
Under the Companies Law, a person may not purchase shares of a public company if, following the purchase of shares, the purchaser
would hold more than 90% of the company’s shares, unless the purchaser makes a tender offer to purchase all of the target company’
s shares. If,
as a result of the tender offer, the purchaser would hold more than 95% of the company’
s shares and more than half of the offerees that have no
personal interest have accepted the offer, the ownership of the remaining shares will be transferred to the purchaser. Alternatively, the purchaser
will be able to purchase all shares if the percentage of the offerees that did not accept the offer constitute less than 2% of the company’
s shares.
If the purchaser is unable to purchase 95% or more of the company’
s shares, the purchaser may not own more than 90% of the shares of the
target company.
Tax Law. Israeli tax law treats some acquisitions, such as a stock-for-
stock swap between an Israeli company and a foreign company,
less favorably than U.S. tax law. For example, Israeli tax law may subject a shareholder who exchanges his ordinary shares for shares in a
foreign corporation to immediate taxation. Please see "Item 10.E Taxation — Israeli Taxation."
Exculpation, Indemnification and Insurance of Directors and Officers
Our articles of association allow us to indemnify, exculpate and insure our office holders, which includes our directors, to the fullest
extent permitted by the Companies Law (other than with respect to certain expenses in connection with administrative enforcement proceedings
under the Israeli Securities Law), provided that procuring this insurance or providing this indemnification or exculpation is duly approved by the
requisite corporate bodies (as described above under "Related Party Transactions—Compensation").
Under the Companies Law, a company may indemnify an office holder in respect of some liabilities, either in advance of an event or
following an event. If a company undertakes to indemnify an office holder in advance against monetary liability incurred in his or her capacity as
an office holder, whether imposed in favor of another person pursuant to a judgment, a settlement or an arbitrator’
s award approved by a court,
the indemnification must be limited to foreseeable events in light of the company’
s actual activities at the time of the indemnification
undertaking and to a specific sum or a reasonable criterion under such circumstances, as determined by the board of directors.
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