Our firm specializes in providing legal counsel in relation to complex antitrust and competition matters. The extensive experience and significant expertise of our expert attorneys, alongside their close working relations with various regulatory authorities, allow them to provide the highest level of strategic-legal counsel. Our firm is renowned for its unique antitrust and competition expertise in various fields, including (among others) banking, insurance, food, retail, technology, telecommunications, transport, and more, as well as its exceptional knowledge of the Promotion of Competition in the Food Industry Law, 2014 (the “Food Law”) and the Law for Promoting Competition and Reducing Concentration, 2013 (the “Concentration Law”).
Our legal teams provide ongoing counsel to leading corporations on their day to day activity, and advise companies’ boards of directors on the legal-competitive aspects of their activity. Among others, our attorneys provide ongoing counsel regarding the antitrust and competition aspects of large-scale transactions, joint ventures, tenders and other processes, and frequently advise clients with regard to activities related to monopolies, restrictive agreements and mergers. In addition, our attorneys regularly provide complex legal opinions on various Israeli competition aspects in relation to a wide variety of matters, including day to day commercial activity, new business ventures, joint ventures, information transfer, and more. In this regard, our legal teams provide legal opinions regarding restrictive agreements, both in cases in which the approval of the Competition Authority is required and in cases in which the agreement may be implemented on the basis of a self-assessment.
In addition, our expert team build internal compliance programs tailored to the unique needs of each client. Our legal teams conduct in-depth examinations of the client’s commercial activity in light of the Economic Competition Law, including examining agreements, documents, and interviews with company officials. Our attorneys then draft a statement of principles and a detailed internal compliance program to ensure compliance with the requirements of the law, tailored to the commercial activity of the client.
Our Legal teams provide professional legal counsel to clients throughout antitrust and competition related litigation and enforcement proceedings, and are regularly called upon to provide discrete counsel in complex and sensitive proceedings. Our legal teams represent clients in a broad array of proceedings (including civil, administrative and criminal enforcement proceedings) before the Israel Competition Authority and other government entities, before antitrust tribunals and before civilian courts.
Our firm possesses extensive experience and unique expertise in advising and representing multinational corporations regarding their activities in Israel, specifically with regard to antitrust and competition regulation matters. Among others, our attorneys advise Fortune-500 corporations regarding merger notification rules in Israel, the effect of the “Concentration Law” on acquisitions in Israel, and domestic enforcement (public and private) vis-à-vis foreign companies; regularly advise international companies regarding antitrust and competition matters related to complex M&A transactions; and represent multinational corporations before Israeli authorities and courts.
