Last Thursday, the 2019 Israel Aviation Conference took place in the presence of Mr. Israel Katz, the Minister of Transportation of Intelligence and of Foreign Affairs and other senior executives in the aviation sector. Advocate Raphael Melman, a partner in our firm, which represents major aviation organizations and advises with regard to future legislation reforms, was a member of a panel discussing the קרא עוד...

Last week we hosted the inside counsels of about 90 leading companies for an ACC seminar which addressed the drafting of contractual terms, in light of potential litigation. The head of our M&A department, Advocate Jacob Enoch, addressed uncommon yet important clauses including covering a target's relationship with the attorney for the seller. The honorable judge (retired) Avi Zamir provided insight to the קרא עוד...

MasterCard completed the acquisition 10% of Shva (automated bank services) from Bank Hapoalim for $11 million. MasterCard was represented by Advocates Eytan Epstein and Shirley Dahan together with our head of competition and regulation department, Mazor Matzkevich and Yehuda Gindi, a partner in our capital markets department. For more details please see: קרא עוד...

In recent years we have been seeing an increase in competition litigation, especially class action suits.Our competition and antitrust department, a leader in its field, wrote the Israeli chapter of the recent edition of the Private Competition Enforcement Review which was published recently. The chapter, authored by advocate Eytan Epstein, Mazor Matzkevich and Shani Galant–Frankfurt, addresses private enforcement under the competition laws in קרא עוד...

As part of a protracted legal battle over years and before several different legal instances, including the Supreme Court, the National Council for Planning and Construction approved last week, against the municipality's and the neighboring residents' appeals, the plan for the reconstruction of the Dan Accadia hotel in Herzliya including the addition thereto of new buildings, commercials areas and a convention center.Dan Hotels קרא עוד...