IDAN NETSER serves as co-leader of the firm's Emerging Companies and Venture Capital (ECVC) practice. Idan focuses his practice on advising international high growth emerging technology companies, venture capital investors and large multinational corporations. Idan's vast experience extends to corporate and partnership matters, including cross-border international investments, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, international tax, transfer pricing, tax planning and restructurings, international IP planning and exploitation, and tax controversy. Idan is particularly experienced working with Silicon Valley and Israel's thriving technology sectors that have been a key focus of U.S. technology investment and M&A activity. Idan's representative clients include: Applitools (acquired by Thoma Bravo), Apprente (acquired by McDonald's), Armis (acquired by Service Now), at.inc/, Believer Meat, BlazeMeter (acquired by CA Technologies), Bluevine, Cardinal (acquired by Miro), Coinbase, Dome9 (acquired by Check Point), ElectronX, Elio, EXO Technologies (acquired by Lear), Flip (Humans), Hailo Technologies, Innovation Endeavors, Inventive AI, Kaiizen, Lightspin (acquired by Cisco), Mellanox (acquired by NVidia), Memomi (acquired by Walmart), Markforged (acquired by Nano Dimension), Microsoft, Navmatic (acquired by Superpedestrian), Nourish, Nova Labs, Orion Resource Partners, Outbuild, Owl Rock Capital, Peach Finance, PhaseV, Pipe Technologies, Placer.ai, Pluto (acquired by Robinhood), Prospera (acquired by Valmont), Reshuffle (acquired by X, formerly Twitter), Resident Home (acquired by Ashley), Sage Labs AI, Salt Security, Sensi.AI, SentinelOne, Sequence, Spot (acquired by NetApp), SimpleClosure, Squid Cloud AI, Stackbit (acquired by Netlify), StructionSite (acquired by DroneDeploy), Supira Medical, Tamnoon, Tau Motors, Tenyx (acquired by Salesforce), Veev (acquired by Lennar), Vertex Ventures, Versatile, VIM, Voia, Zeev Ventures, and others. Idan has been consistently recognized since 2019 by Chambers Global as among the world's leading lawyers representing U.S.-based clients in Israeli-related U.S. international tax matters. He was ranked in Chambers USA as a leading lawyer for Venture Capital in California (2024-2025), which described Idan as "notably adept at assisting clients on seed, early-stage and late-stage financings," adding that "he has considerable experience of handling issues that contain cross-border elements and is resourceful, solution-oriented and responsive." Idan is also ranked by Chambers USA as an "Up and Coming" lawyer for Startups & Emerging Companies Nationwide (2025). Clients praised his ability to find "immediate solutions to complex problems" and he serves as a "value-added counsel and thought partner" who does a "tremendous job leading his team." He has been recommended by Legal 500 United States for International Tax and Venture Capital and Emerging Companies (2025). In the 2020 edition of Legal 500 , a market commentator noted, "Idan is an amazing advisor and legal professional. While he has a deep tax knowledge in different areas of tax, his greatest asset is his relentless client service and support at all times of day. His value is especially important when working under time pressure when he stays calm and advises the clients properly." ITR World Tax ranked Idan as a "Noted Practitioner" in California for 2026 and the International Tax Review honored him as a "Tax Leader in 2020" in the Tax Leaders Expert Guide. Idan was named to Daily Journal 's 2017 "Top 40 Under 40" list, where he was honored for his ability to lead international tax and large-scale matters, while contributing to civic and pro bono matters. He was also recognized as a "Rising Star" by Northern California Super Lawyers (2014-2019). Idan graduated, with distinction, from both the Naval Academy and the Naval Advanced Command course. He served as the Commander of the Identification, Navigation and Communication squadron as well as in different naval command positions on board a missile frigate, and led international naval operations in collaboration with NATO.