Dan Hacohen

Dan Hacohen is the Founding Partner and Head of the firm’s Energy Department at our Tel Aviv office.

Dan specializes in commercial law with an emphasis on energy, corporate finance, capital markets and local and international mergers and acquisitions. Throughout his 30 years of experience, Dan was involved in some of the largest and most complex transactions performed in Israel.

Dan heads the energy and infrastructure department of the firm and is one of the leading attorneys in Israel in this field. Over the years, Dan has represented the rights holders in all major gas discoveries in Israel in the last two decades and in all gas export transactions from Israel, including the export to Egypt and to Jordan.

Dan has previously represented the State of Israel in the privatization of several state-owned energy companies, and the Palestinian Authority in an agreement to purchase infrastructure and electricity from the Israel Electric Corporation, and he also represented businesses in the various reforms with respect to natural resources, including the Sheshinski Committee, the Zemach Committee and the Gas Framework. In recent years alone, Dan has been involved in transactions in the energy sector with a value exceeding 50 billion US dollars.

In the area of corporate finance, Dan was involved in some of the largest financing transactions in Israel, including uniquely innovative project financing transactions totaling over 10 billion dollars.

In the area of mergers and acquisitions, Dan has been involved in some of the most complex domestic transactions, in a variety of areas, including Israel’s first reverse triangular merger of public companies, the acquisition of the controlling interest in the privatization of the largest telecommunications company in Israel, and first-of-their-kind regional transactions in Egypt and with a company from Abu Dhabi.

Dan was the first chairman of the Energy Committee of the Israel Bar Association and is a member of the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN).

Dan is consistently ranked at the top of his practice by domestic and international legal guides and is recognized as the leading attorney in Israel in energy and project finance. Dan leads individual rankings based on feedback from clients and colleagues, who describe him as “the key person in the field in Israel, the number one attorney in Israel in the area of gas and energy”.

• Acted for Delek Drilling in the sale of its rights in the Tamar reservoir to a subsidiary of Mubadala owned by the government of Abu Dhabi, totaling approximately one billion dollars. This transaction was the first major deal between a company from Israel and a state-owned company from Abu Dhabi.
• Represented Delek Drilling and Noble Energy (Chevron) in a deal valued at over half a billion dollars with unique geopolitical implications, for the purchase of shares in the Egyptian company EMG (owner of the gas pipeline between Israel and Egypt). This unique deal marked the warming of commercial relations between Israel and Egypt.
• Acted for Delek Drilling in a number of first-of-their-kind and unique international project bond offerings, totaling approximately 4.5 billion dollars.
• Represented Navitas in a major acquisition and financing transaction in the Gulf of Mexico.