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.