Management
Nir Epstein | Founder and Managing Director
Mr. Epstein is the founder and Managing Director of Epstein Capital. Mr. Epstein
has more than 17 years of professional experience in business advisory both as a
lawyer and as an investment banker. Mr. Epstein also has experience in managing
the largest international investment banking office in Israel.
Since the establishment of Epstein Capital in 2005, Mr. Epstein has been advising
international companies on M&A and private equity investments. During this period
Mr. Epstein represented a wide range of multinational corporations on significant
investments, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings and other strategic
corporate transactions.
Prior to establishing Epstein Capital, Mr. Epstein was an investment banker with
Lehman Brothers Inc. (1997 - 2005) and in his last role served as Head of Lehman
Brothers Israel office (2003-2005) and prior to that a member of the Israeli coverage
team and of the global mergers and acquisitions group (1997-2003).
During his tenure Mr. Epstein was involved with multibillion dollar cross border
transactions for the Government of Israel and major Israeli corporations. Mr. Epstein
advised marketed and executed a wide range of M&A, equity and debt transactions
for various clients including the Government of Israel, Bank Leumi, Bank Hapoalim,
Saifun Semiconductors, Ness Technologies, ECI Telecom, MIND CTI, Emblaze Systems,
Nice Systems, Barak, Partner Communications, Given Imaging, Groupe Danone, Honeywell
International, Automatic Data Processing, L-3 communications, EMC and many other
multinationals.
Prior to joining Lehman Brothers Mr. Epstein was an attorney with the law firm of
S. Horowitz & Co. (1993-1996), specializing in corporate law and antitrust law.
Mr. Epstein received an MBA from INSEAD Fontainebleau, France and an LL.B. magna
cum laude from Tel-Aviv University Law School (Mr. Epstein is a member of the Israel
Bar). Mr. Epstein is fluent in Hebrew, English and Spanish.