Alon Harnoy

Alon Harnoy has unparallelled hands on experience in domestic and international transactions.  Alon leads many of Smith Gambrell & Russell's complex corporate transactions and is the Head of the Fund Formation Practice.

With a career spanning over 30 years across a wide range of industries, Alon has driven solutions and results in mergers and acquisitions, private fund formation and fund transactions, as well as in general corporate and commercial matters.

Alon’s clients regard him as a the “guy you want fighting for you”, a solutions oriented lawyer who is intelligent and “gets it”, a humble family man, and guy who often considers clients as friends.  

Alon has served on boards of several charities. Currently, Alon serves on the Board and is Treasurer of American Friends of Elem (Israel’s leading nonprofit supporting youth at risk).

Alon's Practice

Representative Matters

• Represented Big V Property Group, a shopping center investment management and property management company that owns and operates shopping centers, in the formation and launch of the Big V Income Fund, an open-ended fund investing in a portfolio of real estate properties that are net leased on a long-term basis.
• Representation of Big V Property Group in the additional acquisitions:
  • The Southpark Meadows I & II Shopping Center in Austin, Texas. The acquisition is Big V’s first in Austin, its fifth property in Texas, and the second largest shopping center in its more than 9.5 million-square-foot portfolio.
  • The Lake Pleasant Pavilion, a 178,403-square-foot destination shopping center in Peoria, Arizona, located in the Phoenix Metropolitan area.
  • The Glade Parks Town Center in Dallas, Texas. Glade Parks, a best-in-class shopping center consisting of 559,457 square feet, is Big V Property Group’s fourth Texas property, its first in Dallas.
  • The Markets at Town Center, a shopping center located in the popular St. John’s retail district of Jacksonville, Florida.
  • The Rim Shopping Center in San Antonio, Texas, together with related capital structuring transactions.
  • The Avenue Shopping Center in Tennessee, together with related capital structuring transactions.
• Representation of Via Transportation, the global leader in TransitTech, in the following acquisitions:
  • Represented Via Transportation in its acquisition of Citymapper, the UK-based premier journey planning app and transit technology company.
  • Representation of Via Transportation in its acquisition of Remix, the premier collaborative mapping platform for transportation planning and decision-making.
  • Representation of Via Transportationin its acquisition of Fleetonomy, an Israeli-based cutting edge technology company that leverages the power of AI for demand prediction and fleet utilization.
• Representation of Atalaya Capital Management, an asset management firm, in the following acquisitions:
  • Represented an asset management firm in the formation of a fund vehicle that invests in aircraft assets.
  • Represented an asset management firm in the formation of a joint venture to acquire and manage leased aircraft.
• Represented the U.S. subsidiaries of an Israeli Parent Company in connection with the Company’s bank refinancing with a Canadian subsidiary of an American multinational financial services corporation.
• Represented the U.S. subsidiary of a Canadian Parent Company in connection with the Parent company’s bank refinancing.
• Represented Man Made Music, a leading sonic branding agency, in connection with formation of a strategic partnership with Unbound Sound for the creation of Continuum™, an enterprise music solution for brands.
• Represented Climbing Collective, a leading operator of indoor climbing facilities in its acquisition of Inner Peaks, an operator of indoor climbing facilities in Charlotte, North Carolina.
• Represented Tower Abstract, a nationwide commercial title insurance agency, in its structuring, formation and loan agreement with Kensington Vanguard Holdings LLC.
• Represented the owners of a S. dental distribution business in an Asset Sale of its business.
• Represented an owner of children’s fashion brands in a refinancing transaction involving the transition of factoring lenders.
• Represented an investment group in an acquisition of bank loans issued by a technology company.
• Represented the seller of a S. dental distribution business in an Asset Purchase and Share Contribution Transaction.
• Represented the sponsors of Tachyon Fund in forming two venture capital funds focused on biotech investments; and thereafter representing the fund in its portfolio investments.
• Represented an investment group in an acquisition of a controlling stake of a data storage company.
• Represented a global bank in establishing a credit facility for a technology company.
• Acquisition of a FINRA registered broker-dealer.
• Represented a company specializing in groundbreaking wireless charging technology in its Convertible Note investment round and commercial matters.
• Represented a Blackstone portfolio company on the formation of a joint venture with a petroleum company in Mexico.
• Represented an affiliate of The Blackstone Group and Cerberus in connection with the sale of American Petroleum Tankers LLC and State Class Tankers LLC to Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: KMP) for an aggregate amount of $962,000,000.
• Represented American Petroleum Tankers LLC (“APT”), the owner and operator of petroleum tankers, in connection with (i) a $280,000,000 new senior secured credit facility, (ii) using proceeds from the credit facility to redeem APT’s existing first priority senior secured notes, and (iii) converting $468,000,000 of outstanding obligations under APT’s second lien credit facility into equity interests of APT’s parent entity.
• Represented Panasonic Corporation (Japan) to execute and complete the joint venture (JV) with TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader.

Represented State Class Tankers II LLC as a borrower in a Secured Term Facility in the aggregate principal amount of $365,000,000.