Bio

Idan Netser focuses his practice on advising international high growth emerging technology companies, venture capital investors and large multinational corporations. Idan’s vast experience extends to corporate and partnership matters, including cross-border international investments, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, international tax, transfer pricing, tax planning and restructurings, international IP planning and exploitation, and tax controversy. Idan is particularly experienced working with Israel’s thriving technology sector, which has been a key focus of U.S. technology investment and M&A activity. Idan’s representative clients include: Applitools (acquired by Thoma Bravo), Apprente (acquired by McDonald’s), Armis, at.inc/, BlazeMeter (acquired by CA Technologies), Bluevine, Cardinal (acquired by Miro), Coinbase, Digma, Dome9 (acquired by Check Point), EXO Technologies (acquired by Lear Corporation), Elio, Flip (Humans), Hailo Technologies, Hourly, Innovation Endeavors, Kaiizen, Lightspin (acquired by Cisco), Lumana.ai, Mellanox (acquired by NVidia), Markforged, Microsoft, Navmatic (acquired by Superpedestrian), Nova Labs, Orion Resource Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Pipe Technologies, Placer, Pluto, Prospera (acquired by Valmont), Reshuffle (acquired by Twitter), Resident Home (acquired by Ashley), Sage Labs AI, Salt Security, Sensi.AI, SentinelOne, Sequence, Spot (acquired by NetApp), SimpleClosure, Squid Cloud AI, Stackbit (acquired by Netlify), StructionSite (acquired by DroneDeploy), Tau Motors, Tenyx, Tesla, Veev, Vertex Ventures, Versatile, VIM, Voia, Zeev Ventures and others. Since 2019, he has been recognized in Chambers Global among the world’s leading lawyers representing U.S.-based clients in Israeli-related U.S. international tax matters. In 2024 he was also ranked in Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in Venture Capital for California, which described Idan as “notably adept at assisting clients on seed, early-stage and late-stage financings,” adding that “he has considerable experience of handling issues that contain cross-border elements and is resourceful, solution-oriented and responsive.” In the 2020 edition of The Legal 500, a market commentator noted, “Idan is an amazing advisor and legal professional. While he has a deep tax knowledge in different areas of tax, his greatest asset is his relentless client service and support at all times of day. His value is especially important when working under time pressure when he stays calm and advises the clients properly.” International Tax Review honored him as a “Tax Leader in the 2020” Tax Leaders Expert Guide. Idan was also named to Daily Journal’s 2017 “Top 40 Under 40” list, where he was honored for his ability to lead international tax and large-scale matters, while contributing to civic and pro bono matters. He is also recognized as a “Rising Star” by Northern California Super Lawyers (2014–2019). Idan graduated, with distinction, from both the Naval Academy and the Naval Advanced Command course. He served as the Commander of the Identification, Navigation and Communication squadron as well as in different naval command positions on board a missile frigate, and led international naval operations in collaboration with NATO.