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Lior Shimoni
Lior Shimoni is a managing director in Evercore’s strategic advisory practice based in Tel Aviv.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Shimoni advised Israeli clients on various strategic and financing transactions, including Infinidat’s sale to Lenovo Group; Bel Fuse’s acquisition of Enercon Technologies; Priority Software’s sale to Blackstone; Cellwize Wireless Technologies’ sale to Qualcomm; RADA Electronic Industries’ sale to Leonardo DRS; Ceragon’s successful hostile bid defense; and Orbotech’s sale to KLA. In addition, Mr. Shimoni has been involved in multiple initial public offerings and equity transactions of Israeli companies, including Mellanox Technologies, Orbotech, Tufin Software, Caesarstone, Kornit Digital, ADO Properties and ReWalk Robotics. He has also been involved in over 20 fixed income transactions for the state of Israel and Israeli companies.
Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Shimoni was a director at Barclays Israel and worked for Lehman Brothers, where he advised on a broad range of M&A and financing transactions.
Mr. Shimoni graduated magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University with a bachelor’s in economics, accounting and business management.