Heather Stone is a leader of the Technology sector practice areas at GKH. She practices corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on representation of emerging growth companies and the representation of investors and venture capital funds involved with such companies. She counsels public and private company clients in the full range of corporate and securities matters, including corporate formations, public and private financing transactions, mergers and acquisitions, strategic corporate relationships, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting and compliance, employee incentive programs and advice to directors. Heather has advised numerous Israeli based technology and life science companies in their merger and acquisition transactions with some of the largest companies world-wide, such as Boston Scientific, Cisco Systems, which acquired three of her companies, Medtronic and Red Hat.

Heather’s practice also includes cross border enforcement and other regulatory investigations and proceedings, and counseling directors, companies, audit committees and special investigative committees on such matters as fiduciary duties, disclosure obligations, securities law compliance, and corporate control matters.

Ranked in Chambers Global (2010) in both Corporate /M&A and Corporate / M&A - Hi-Tech, "Heather Stone is a leader of the hi-tech practice at the firm. Peers identify her as someone who gets the deal done.  [She] is renowned for her practical approach, with one client commenting: 'Between me and her we can get a transaction done in zero time.'"

Heather joined GKH in 1997 and became a partner in 2000. She moved to Israel from the US to gain an academic background in the laws and economic constraints on debt financing of large-scale public projects in Israel. Prior to that, she practiced law in the area of municipal and county bonds in New Jersey with the leading bond firm in the State from 1988-1990. Heather was born in Washington D.C.

Education: Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (B.A. in Urban Studies, 1985); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (undergraduate course work in Urban Planning 1982-1984); Rutgers University Law School, Camden, N.J. (J.D., 1988); The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (graduate courses in Urban Planning, 1990-1993).

Admitted: New Jersey Bar, 1988; Israel Bar, 1993.

Member: New Jersey Bar Association, Israel Bar Association.

Languages: Hebrew, English and French.