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Law Firms - Defamation Law
Zeev Liond & Co. Advocates & Notary
Z eev Liond & Co. has a tradition stretch-
ing back many years. Zeev Liond has
headed the firm since 1991, and it
comprises about 10 lawyers and interns. It is re-
nowned especially for the quality of its litigation
services, and is one of the country’s prominent
law firms in the spheres of media, intellectual
property and defamation law. The firm has also
acted for many years in the real estate and com-
mercial law sectors.
The legal team’s skill, the emphasis on in-
depth understanding of customer needs and
familiarity with its business environment,
alongside constant availability and rapid cli-
ent service, has positioned the firm as one of
the leaders in its field.
Zeev Liond has headed the firm for more than
25 years. After completing his studies at Tel
Aviv University in 1975, he interned with the
late Shmuel Tamir, and went on to become his
partner. Liond has extensive litigation experi-
ence in a wide variety of complex cases, he
also handles mergers, acquisitions and real
estate transactions, and represents clients
in planning and building proceedings at all
instances.
Practice Areas
Media and Communications
The firm is well-known for its activities in me-
dia and communications, and provides rou-
tine legal services for major print and digital
media, and companies engaged in Internet
and cellular content, and infrastructure de-
velopment. The firm handles a broad range
of commercial deals in media and content,
provides regular legal advice to newspapers
and websites and represents clients in legal
proceedings involving gag orders, defamation,
protection of privacy, freedom of information
and the press, and it also represents media
clients in Knesset committees in legislative
processes, etc.
Defamation, Libel & Slander
Zeev Liond & Co. is one of Israel’s outstanding
law firms in defamation cases. Its close famil-
iarity with the media allows the firm’s clients
to enjoy not only professional representation
in legal proceedings and defamation cases
but also close personal support and legal
advice at the strategic and media levels, en-
abling matters to be conducted in the best
way during the client’s image crisis or other
problems. The firm routinely handles a long
list of defamation cases, representing media
publishers, large commercial companies and
private individuals, including notable public
figures. The firm’s clients in the media have
the benefit of the firm’s expertise in this field,
not only in conducting defamation cases but
also as part of the preemptive legal advice giv-
en to editors and journalists during the initial
stages while they are still formulating journal-
istic material in connection with investigative
reports and the like.
Commercial and Corporate Law
The firm provides legal services to compa-
nies and businesses, from supporting routine
business activities to handling complex, large-
scale deals, as well as representation before
the Antitrust Authority. The firm is involved in-
ter alia In Merger And Acquisition Agreements,
Founders And Investors Agreements, And
Agreements Relating To Cellular And Internet
Content And Infrastructure Services, Computer
Services, Digital Media Marketing & Advertis-
ing, Electronic Commerce, Mail & Distribution,
Print, Event Productions, etc.
Litigation and Class Actions
The firm has a long tradition of providing liti-
gation services at all instances, including the
High Court, as well as in arbitrations, appeal
committees and planning and building com-
mittees. The firm handles Complex Commercial
And Civil Cases, Involving Corporate Law And
Struggles For Corporate Control, Class Actions,
Media Law, Defamation, Protection Of Privacy,
Intellectual Property, Commercial Torts, Anti-
trust Law, Consumer Protection Law, Wills And
Estates, Tenders, Planning And Building, Sport
And Administrative Petitions
Intellectual Property
The firm has substantial intellectual property
experience, including litigation in copyright
and trademark actions, contractual and com-
plex usage licenses various contents and cre-
ations, as well as accompaniment & ongoing
media legal consultation in this regard. The
firm also handles preparing media contracts
and licenses as well as handling trademark
registration. Clients include the media, pub-
lishers and independent artists.
Real Estate and Planning & Building Law
The firm’s real estate activities embrace large-
scale sale and purchase projects, including
combination deals and independent build-
ing, advising for organized purchase groups,
and dealing with “Vacate and Build” projects,
consolidation and partition, registration of co-
operative houses, etc. The firm represents cli-
ents in administrative court proceedings, and
before planning and building committees and
public authorities.
Social Involvement & Contribution to the
Community
The firm’s pro bono activities focus on providing
legal aid to non-profit organizations operating in
sports and sports fan clubs communities fields,
recognizing the importance of implementing
values of transparency and good management
in federations and sports clubs. Attorney Dor Li-
ond Initiated and promoted the amendment to
the Freedom of Information Act, which widened
the scope of the law to sports associations and
unions, and provided them with legal assistance.
Adv. Dor Liond, who manages the firm’s social
activity, represented the Israfans association be-
fore the Zelicha Committee and the Shtruzman
Commission which later implemented, in their
conclusions, several important recommenda-
tions regarding the mechanisms of transparency
and public supervision, and provides legal repre-
sentation for the fans in these matters.
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
Law Firm Specializing in Media law,
Intellectual Property, Commercial
Law, Real Estate and Litigation
Discount Tower, 23 Yehuda Halevy St.,
P.O.B 29765, Tel Aviv 6129701
Tel: 972-3-5170881
Fax: 972-3-5170885
Menahem Weizman
Partner
Dor Liond
Partner
Alon Nadav
Senior Associate
Lior Vignanski
Senior Associate
Zeev Liond
Senior & Managing
Partner *
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582