Bio

Shy Baranov joined our firm as a partner in 2021. With over 23 years of legal experience, including as a Managing Partner and Head of the Commercial Department at ZAG law, Shy has gained extensive experience in the fields of corporate and commercial law. Over the years Shy has accompanied numerous companies in their local and international transactions. Shy has extensive experience in advising and representing Israeli companies from across many sectors, in relation to their operations internationally in general and specifically in the U.S. Shy has a deep understanding of practical experience and knowledge of U.S. law in general, and U.S. securities law in particular, and uses this experience in serving as Israeli counsel on a wide range of financing transactions in the U.S., including initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on offerings, ATMs, PIPEs and other kinds of financing transactions. Shy has unique expertise in representing Israeli companies that are traded overseas. In this respect, he counsels regularly on international public M&A transactions, corporate governance matters, shareholders activism, crisis management and interested party transactions.