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Dotan Barnea

Partner
Chair, Israel Practice

New York
T: +1 646.414.6982 F: +1 973.422.6811 dbarnea@lowenstein.com
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Dotan Barnea is a partner in the firm’s Emerging Companies & Venture Capital practice and Chair of the firm’s Israel practice.

He provides legal and business advice to founders, executives, and investors, mainly in the technology and venture space.

Dotan works with companies at all stages (formation through late stage), in a wide range of verticals (fintech, digital assets, cybersecurity, e-commerce, education tech, agriTech, and HR tech, to name a few) across diverse geographies (U.S., Israel, Europe and Africa).

He keeps an open mind and is always curious to learn from his clients and help them move forward.

Dotan grew up in a small town in Israel. He went to an agricultural school, served in the military, and then backpacked in India and Nepal (where he met his wife). He studied law and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and practiced corporate law in two tier-1 Israeli law firms before moving to the United States.

  • Represented Cyabra Strategy Ltd., a data intelligence firm that shields companies and organizations by uncovering disinformation, malicious actors, bot networks, and GenAI content online, in the signing of a $70,000,000 definitive merger agreement with Trailblazer Merger Corporation I (NASDAQ: TBMC), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC).
  • Represented Revelio Labs, the workforce intelligence company, in a Series A capital raise of $15 million, led by Elephant Partners.
  • Represented FINTOP Capital, a venture capital firm focused on financial technology (fintech) companies, in leading a $10 million Series B funding round in Amaryllis Payment Solutions, a payment facilitation platform for financial institutions, software and SaaS companies. (May 2022)
  • Various venture capital financing transactions for OpenView, Cameron Ventures, Acrew, Rethink Education, Bessember, Insight Partners, FirstMark, BDMI, Index Ventures, Blossom Capital, Scopus Ventures, Northzone, First Round Capital, RRE, Newark Venture Partners, FINTOP Capital, PeakSpan Capital, GGV, Estee Lauder and others.
  • Advising (together with other firm professionals) tens of Israeli technology companies with respect to U.S. legal matters, including with respect to: corporate financings (equity and debt), M&A transactions, fund formation, employment and benefits matters, securities matters, litigation, government contract work, compliance with CFIUS, export control and other regulatory frameworks.
  • ACV Auctions Series E Preferred Stock Financing and a number of acquisitions
  • Titan Series A and B Preferred Stock Financings
  • Snappy Gifts Series A, B and C Preferred Stock Financings
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Education

  • Tel Aviv University, Israel (LL.B. 2007), magna cum laude

    Tel Aviv University, Israel (B.A. 2007), magna cum laude

    Israeli Bar Association (professional course in accounting 2009)

Admissions

  • New York
  • Texas
  • Israel (License Inactive)

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