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Poalim I.B.I is Israel's leading investment banking company, raising funds from institutional investors in the capital market and underwriting offerings of private and institutional investors. Poalim I.B.I is a public company traded on the TASE.
Poalim I.B.I provides a variety of services:
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Underwriting and managing public offerings on the TASE.
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Management and implementation of debt offerings through private placement of corporate bonds with institutional investors.
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Management and implementation of private placements for equity and convertible bonds with institutional and other investors.
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Investment banking: M&A transactions, reorganization, locating strategic investors, financing acquisitions and investments.
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Wealth of experience, professional expertise and creative financing
Poalim I.B.I is staffed by a skilled, tried and tested professional team of employees, experts in their fields, including marketing personnel, lawyers, accountants and economists.
Poalim I.B.I enjoys close relations with Israel's leading institutions and with some of the largest international investment houses in the world.
The wealth of Poalim I.B.I's experience and its deep involvement in the capital market allow it to plan and execute original and innovative offerings, adapting structure of the offering and marketing strategy to client preferences, investment fashions and changes in the economic environment, while providing professional legal, accounting, economic and marketing support.
Innovation and leadership
Poalim I.B.I had lead many initiatives that have changed the face of the local capital market:
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Bond offerings for project finance.
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Privatization of government-owned companies - In recent years, Poalim I.B.I has successfully lead all the public offerings of the Israeli government within the framework of its privatization program, both as lead underwriter and also as consultant to the government.
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Launching new, innovative financial tools: In recent years Poalim I.B.I has succeeded in changing Israel's capital market through development and marketing of innovative financial instruments such as callable bonds, "put" option bonds, offerings of upper tier two capital for the banking system and so on.
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Collaboration with international investment houses - Poalim I.B.I has traditionally collaborated with Merrill Lynch, one of the world's largest investment houses. Together, they have executed a large number of transactions. Among other projects, Poalim I.B.I together with Merrill Lynch has built a sales system to facilitate purchase of TASE-listed equities by foreign investors.
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Ongoing growth and reliability
Poalim I.B.I has proven its unique ability to conduct successful offerings in the changing environment of Israel's capital market - from private offerings of varying scope to some of the largest offerings in the local market. As a result it has, in a short time, become the foremost underwriter in Israel's capital market, leading most security offerings on the TASE and more than 50% of new IPO's.
The preeminent status of Poalim I.B.I is evident from the list of companies that it has served as underwriter: Israel Chemicals, Bank Hapoalim, Bank Discount, Bank Leumi, Bank Igud, Tefahot Mortgage Bank, Bezeq, member companies in the Africa-Israel Holdings Group, member companies in the Housing and Construction Group, Matav, M.A. Industries, members of the Ashtrom Group, Industrial Buildings, The Israel Corporation, Azorim Properties, Agis, Ossif, Formula, Israel Refineries, Mekorot, etc.
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