Speaker details

Biography

Yuval chairs the Technology and Life Sciences practice at Gornitzky & Co., one of Israel's largest and full service law firms. Until December 31, 2024, he served as founder and managing partner at Horn & Co, Law Offices. Yuval regularly advises his clients on international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings (US, EU, Israel), structured finance, and corporate reorganizations, as well as on all legal aspects of operations of high tech and life sciences companies, including licensing and sale of technology, joint ventures, commercial transactions and labor law issues. He has been awarded the Leading Global Practitioner Prize in Life Sciences Transactions by Who's Who Lawyers in 2024 and 2022. Yuval served as the Co-Chair of the International Bar Association Technology Law Committee, and Co-chairs both the IBA Annual World Life Sciences Conference, and the IBA Annual M&A in the Technology Sector Conference. Yuval also teaches Life Sciences Entrepreneurship at Tel Aviv University Law Faculty since 2021. Yuval has been a member of the IRB (Helsinki) Committee at the Sheba Medical Centerin Tel Hashomer, Israel since 2008, and represents the firm in Biolegis, a European network of law firmsspecializing in the life sciences (www.biolgeis.com). Since 2019, Mr. Horn is a member of the Contractual Committee at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel. Mr. Horn frequently lectures and writes about new financing models, formation of new businesses, and technology transactions.