Recent amendments to the Companies Regulations (Rules regarding Compensation and Expense Reimbursement of External Directors) 2000 (the "Regulations") substantially increase the minimum and maximum allowed compensation for “external directors”.

Stone, Heather A.

Commercial Agreements are frequently signed between parties after a period of “getting to know one another.” During that time, the parties commonly enter into a non-disclosure agreement, or NDA. When the parties enter into a full blown commercial agreement, their confidentiality considerations may be different than when they were first introduced. This article examines some of these issues, but is not exhaustive.

Amir Halevy, Managing Partner of GKH, will lecture at the MBA Program at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, on Thursday, January 10th, 2008.

GKH hosted San Francisco Mayor, Gavin Newsom, and members of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation's Israel @ 60 Mission. The event took place in the form of a Q&A session focusing on Israel's hi-tech and bio-tech industries.

GKH, in cooperation with Foley & Lardner LLP, one of the world's leading patent law firms, is holding a conference on "Software and Recent Developments in U.S. and Israeli Technology and Intellectual Property Law"

GKH and U.S. investment bank Merriman Curhan Ford will co-host a symposium to introduce the OTCQX, a new platform for non-U.S. listed companies to access capital in the U.S. financial markets.