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Energy and Natural Resources - The firm plays a
leading role in this market, and possesses exten-
sive knowledge regarding its regulation. The firm
represents many of Israel’s energy ventures, and
has advised on the establishment of power plants
and natural gas projects, including the establish-
ment of the largest private power plant in Israel to
have reached financial close. It also advised on
the establishment of one of the first natural gas
power plants, and represents companies in the
photovoltaics field.
Environmental Law and Sustainability - The firm’s
attorneys counsel clients on environmental law
requirements and advise on licensing and en-
forcement before the governmental authorities;
represent clients in administrative, criminal and
civil proceedings; assist in the drafting and imple-
mentation of internal enforcement programs; con-
duct due diligence; represent financial institutions
with respect to environmental risk management;
and advise companies operating in the energy and
water fields.
Regulation and Competition - The firm provides
strategic advice in various fields of economic regu-
lation, including in the financial sector and in the
infrastructure and services sectors. The firmadvis-
es clients on the regulatory aspects of transactions
and tenders, as well as on their competition and
antitrust aspects, includingmonopolies, restrictive
agreements and mergers.
Banking and Finance - The firm handles various
domestic and international financing transactions,
and advises on ongoing banking activity and on
activities in all financial services fields, such as
securities, custody and brokerage, credit cards
and financial derivatives. In recent years, the firm
has advised on some of the most complex bank
financing transactions in the Israeli market.
Telecommunication and Communications - The
firm provides ongoing counsel to various leading
companies in the telecommunication, communi-
cations and broadcasting fields, with respect to
regulations, licensing, mergers and acquisitions,
transfers of corporate control, commercial disputes
and complex litigation proceedings, including
class actions.
Labor Law - The firm provides strategic advice in
order to resolve complex human resourcemanage-
ment issues, and advises organizations and indi-
viduals during reorganization processes, including
employee recruitment and termination; collective
bargaining; M&As; due diligence; and more. The
firmalso represents clients before labor courts and
governmental authorities, as well as in alternative
dispute resolution proceedings.
White Collar - The firm is one of the leaders in the
white collar defense field. The firm’s attorneys,
headed by Adv. Eli Zohar, Chairman of the firm,
represent senior members of the business and
public sectors in criminal cases involving matters
such as securities, antitrust, taxation and money
laundering and defense and national security
offenses.
Insurance and Provident Funds - The firmprovides
comprehensive legal advice to provident funds
and to various companies in the insurance field,
including both Israeli insurance companies and
international insurance companies that operate
in Israel. This comprehensive legal advice extends
from the preliminary stages of establishing insur-
ance companies and agencies and obtaining op-
erating permits and licenses, through legislative
activity, regulatory proceedings and relationships
with agents, to the representation of insurers in
claims filed by insured parties, in class actions
and more.
Libel - The firmhas extensive expertise in this field.
It represents media outlets and advertising agen-
cies, and provides ongoing pre-publication advice
on investigative journalismpieces and advertising
campaigns. The firm also handles public figures’
libel claims and the defense of media outlets in
libel actions.
Tort Law andMedical Malpractice - The firm is one
of the most experienced firms in Israel in these
fields, and has created many precedents in the
torts field. The firm has a history of representing
medical entities, and possesses expertise inman-
aging complex tort claims, including claims that
combine the legal demands of dozens of injured
individuals.
Intellectual Property - The firm handles litigation
and diverse commercial issues relating to intel-
lectual property, and represents clients in court
proceedings and before the Patent Office in mat-
ters concerning copyright, patents, trademarks,
trade secrets and more. The firm also provides
evaluations, drafts licensing agreements, registers
trademarks and advises on OEM license agree-
ments, distribution agreements and VAR agree-
ments. The firmmaintains continuous contact with
patent, copyright and trademark offices in Israel
and abroad.
Class Actions and Derivative Actions - The firm
represents leading Israeli and multinational cor-
porations in class actions regarding securities,
antitrust, insurance and banking and consumer
protection issues. The firm’s expertise results from
representing hundreds of corporate defendants in
class actions, and enables the firm to utilize cre-
ative tools to prevent the certification of claims as
class actions and to resolve the disputes through
alternative measures, while reducing the clients’
exposure to both financial and reputational dam-
age. The firm also possesses expertise in the rep-
resentation of clients in derivative actions, and
represents companies, shareholders, directors and
senior executives.
Administrative Law - The firm has extensive ex-
pertise in this field and represents clients before
governmental authorities, administrative law
courts and the High Court of Justice, including in
matters relating to tenders, communications and
education.
Receiverships and Liquidations - The firmhandles
liquidations, receiverships, creditors’ arrange-
ments and reorganizations under bankruptcy
protection. The firm’s attorneys have served as,
or represented, reorganization trustees, receiv-
ers and liquidators in some of the most complex
proceedings in Israel. The firm has unique exper-
tise in liquidations and receiverships of hi-tech
companies.
Ampa Tower, 98 Yigal Alon St.,
Tel Aviv 6789141
Tel: 972-3-6089999
Fax: 972-3-6089909
Merav Baruch
Jeremy Benjamin
Elad Berdugo
Sagit Chen
Arnon Cohen
Danny Dilbary
Gabi Drucker
Avi Dushnik
Oded Eran
Yoav Fruchtman
Vered Gitterman
Ido Gonen
Erez Gurion
Lior Gutwirt
Avishai Halfon
Sagiv Hanin
Zvi Hauser
Michael Heller
Merav Kainan-Wagner
Daphna Kapeliuk
Omri Kaufman
Elisha Kesner
Adam M. Klein
Yitzchak Kovos
Aaron M. Lampert
Assaf Levine
Amit Levy
Florence Limor-Shaham
Tamar Luz
Tomer Magid
Moshe Mazor
Gur Nabel
Shirit Nackar
Gill Nadel
Avi Netanel
Limor Oron-Abraham
Inbal Perchik
Marc Rabin
Oren Reif
Ariel Rosenberg
Batia Rosenberg
Noa Rosenberg-
Segalovitz
Yehuda Rosenthal
Doron Segal
Yaron Sever
Guy Shalev
Sagit Shoval - Moked
Michal Solomonovich
Neil Stowe
Daphna Tsarfaty
Orna Verhovsky
Oren Wolpin
Rachel Zaccai
Yael Zafir-Avigdor
Ido Zemach
Sefi Zilberstein
Dubi Zoltak
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