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LEADING ADVISOR ON THE ISRAELI CAPITAL MARKETS

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COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS FOR CLIENTS, ALL UNDER ONE ROOF

ABOUT US

Value Base is a leading investment bank in Israel, providing a wide range of financial services and strategic financial consulting under one roof. Value Base has special capital market expertise with many years of experience in setting up and managing a wide range of complex transactions.

Value Base provides its services to clients with the utmost attention to professionalism, fairness and transparency through a highly professional and experienced team of experts in finance, senior analysts, CPAs and attorneys in strategic financial support.

WIDE VARIETY OF STRATEGIC FINANCIAL SERVICES:

  • Value Base’s consulting and management services are based on in-depth economic research and many years of experience on the capital markets. Value Base specializes in managing public and private offerings, underwriting and distributing securities, supporting merger and acquisitions, consulting global companies seeking to make offerings in Israel, exclusive support to leading global investment houses, setting up and managing complex transactions, carrying out unique alternative investments and economic research for Sell Side institutions.

END-TO-END CLIENT SOLUTION

  • Value Base provides a comprehensive solution to the financial needs of its clients through specialization in issuance management, underwriting and distribution, managing of sale and acquisition processes of companies, MBOs, global transactions, managing the raising equity and debt, ongoing support of clients with Israeli institutional investors, management of processes for delisting, mergers of private companies with public companies and providing strategic-financial solutions for every need of the company and its shareholders.

ECONOMIC RESEARCH

  • Value Base provides the institutional investors in Israel with economic, professional and in-depth analyses in a variety of industries. Value Base pays meticulous attention to in-depth economic analysis, professionalism and Value Base pays attention to the frequency and timing of its publication as well as the accessibility of its analysts to both the institutional investors and the surveyed companies.

CONSULTING & CAPITAL INTRODUCTION

  • GAR Capital, a Value Base subsidiary, exclusively consults some of the largest and highest-quality fund managers worldwide on the raising capital in the Israeli market. The asset managers that GAR consults manage assets totaling more than USD 2.5 trillion. GAR is the largest and leading company in its field in Israel.

LEADERSHIP

Value Base is led by a seasoned team of investment banking executives and some of Israel’s most well-known financial industry experts.

Victor Shamrich
Founder & Chairman

Victor brings three decades of experience in the financial sector. Before joining Value Base, Victor served as co-CEO of Meitav-Dash, overseeing the firm’s investment activities. Together with Ido Neuberger, Victor founded Apex in 1993, and together are credited with growing the company organically and through M&A transactions to become Israel’s second largest asset manager with $40B assets under management.

Ido Neuberger
Founder & CEO

Ido brings three decades of experience in the financial sector. Before joining Value Base, Ido served as co-CEO of Meitav-Dash, overseeing investment management activities and overall operations. Together with Victor Shamrich, Ido founded Apex in 1993, and together are credited with growing the company organically and through M&A transactions become Israel’s second largest asset manager with $40B assets under management. Ido holds an MA and a BA in Economics from Tel Aviv University.

Yair Ephrati
Head of Investment Banking

Yair brings over 25 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience to Value Base, with expertise in leading complex M&A transactions, including, local and cross border transactions, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, and public equity transactions on behalf of both private equity firms and for private and public corporate clients. Before joining Value Base, Yair served as CEO of Meitav- Dash Mergers & Acquisitions, a leading player in the Israeli investment banking industry. Before becoming an investment banker, Yair was with McKinsey & Co. In London and New York where he led teams advising Fortune 100 companies on new market development, acquisitions, and strategy. Yair also serves as Chairman and CEO of Eden Energy Discoveries (TASE: EDEN), a public company engaged in in oil & gas exploration. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BA in Economics and Business from Tel Aviv.

מורן נחשוני

Moran Nachshony
Co- CEO in the Underwriting

Moran Nachshony has 15 years of experience working in the capital market in the areas of issuances, analysis and investment management. In his previous positions, Moran served as a senior analyst at Entropy Financial Research Services, an investment manager, as well as an analyst at the Excellence Nessuah investment house. Moran has a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and a bachelor’s degree (B.Sc) in geophysics and planetary sciences as well as in communication from Tel Aviv University (with honors).

Amir Nahum
Co- CEO in the Underwriting

Amir Nahum has 13 years of experience in the capital market, in his previous positions he served as the manager of the underwriting department of a joint company with Ayalon Investment House and as a desk manager in the trading room of Excellence Investment House. Mr. Nahum took part in leading and managing numerous and complex issuances, distributions and transactions, both private and public, involving people. Amir holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and management with a specialization in finance at the Open University and holds a license for investment consulting and portfolio management.

Uriel Goren
CEO, Gar Capital

Uriel is the CEO and one of the founding partners of GAR Capital. He has more than 15 years of investment banking and capital introduction experience in Israel and abroad. Uriel has initiated and led some of the largest cross-border transactions in the Israeli institutional market in the past decade. Prior to founding GAR Capital, Uriel served in several positions in London and Tel Aviv, including Lehman Brothers’ Israeli Investment Banking team, Lehman Brothers & Nomura Pan European equities sales team in London, Head of Capital Markets Investments for the Park Plaza Group and Partner and Head of International Client desk at DS Brokerage, a subsidiary of DS Apex.

Tal Yaacobi
Managing Partner

Mr. Yaacobi has over 20 years of experience in a variety of investment management and strategic consulting positions in the Israeli and global capital market. Mr. Yaacobi specializes in building investment structures following successful execution of many transactions as a buyer, a seller, and a consultant.

Prior to joining VBF, Mr. Yaacobi served as a partner in Shamrock Growth Fund, where he sourced and led processes for identification, investment, value creation and successful sale of companies in different industries. In addition, he served as a strategy & corporate finance consultant during his tenure at McKinsey & Co. Mr. Yaacobi is a Certified Public Accountant, holds an MBA with distinction from Cornell University and a BA in Business Administration and Accounting from the Tel Aviv College of Management.

Adv. Tsahy Alon
General Counsel

Mr. Alon has an extensive experience in corporate law, capital markets, securities and commercial law which he accumulated  as an attorney and partner in leading Israeli law firms serving as an external legal advisor to many public and private corporations. Prior to joining Value Base, Mr. Alon served as a Partner at S. Friedman & Co. and an attorney  at Meitar Law Offices. Mr. Alon holds a LL.B and a B.A. in Business Administration from the Interdisciplinary Center ,Herzliya.

Lior Kaver (CPA)
CFO

Mr. Kaver is a specialist in capital markets, and brings over 20 years a deep understanding and experience in managing IPOs, M&A activities, valuations, due diligence, prospectus drafting and company restructuring for debt offerings and raising capital. Lior served as CFO with several public and private companies, including Meitav-Dash (formerly – Ds Apex). Prior to his CFO positions, Lior worked as an audit manager at the Israeli office of E&Y Israel. Lior also serves as a Director in several private companies. He holds an LLM in Law for CPA from Bar-Ilan University and a BA in Business Administration and Accounting from the College of Management.