The most astonishing offer in Israel’s insurance plan sector last yr finally received the go-ahead at the finish of very last 7 days when Commissioner of Coverage, Cost savings and Capital Marketplaces Dr. Moshe Bareket gave electronic coverage firm WeSure a allow to handle veteran player Ayalon Insurance policy Firm.

WeSure desired the allow in buy to be ready to obtain 67% of Ayalon for NIS 463 million. For the needs of raising the dollars, WeSure brought Caesarea Medical Electronics, managed by Zvi Barak and his spouse Anat, into the offer. Barak will commit NIS 270 million in WeSure.




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Finance was not, nevertheless, the only, or even the principal hurdle that WeSure had to conquer. During the regulate allow process, the Israel Securities Authority raised the want to collapse 1 of the levels in the Ayalon group structure, since the Focus Law bans a pyramid of much more than two firms that are possibly community or elevate money by way of bonds, and the offer would have produce these types of a pyramid: WeSure, a public company below it Ayalon Holdings, a second general public business under that Ayalon Insurance policies, a personal business but considered a layer for the uses of the Focus Legislation and below that Ayalon Insurance Issuing and Elevating Ltd., a organization that has raised personal debt in a bond supplying.

In buy to deal with the ban, in early March the boards of directors of Ayalon Holdings and of Ayalon Insurance policy agreed a merger, collapsing two layers of the pyramid into a single (insurance coverage providers are exempt from the bond difficulty provision), hence eliminating the impediment to completion of the offer. At the close of previous 7 days, the Commissioner of Insurance policies, Personal savings and Funds Marketplaces awarded an insurance policy license to the merged Ayalon Insurance coverage.

Just after the regulatory obstacle was removed, Bareket gave a control allow to the controlling shareholders in WeSure, Emil Vainshel and Nitzan Zeir-Harim, alongside one another with Zvi and Anat Barak, enabling them to hold, directly or indirectly, stakes in WeSure International Tech (TASE: WESR), and in the coverage corporations that it controls. Previously in the 7 days, the Level of competition Authority gave its approval to the deal among WeSure and Caesarea Health care Electronics.

Published by Globes, Israel enterprise news – en.globes.co.il – on Might 22, 2022.

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