Adv. Hagit Blaiberg possesses extensive experience regarding complex commercial disputes, and regularly represents international corporations and financial entities in complex, sensitive proceedings. Hagit has unique expertise relating to corporate litigation and securities litigation, including shareholder disputes, as well as internet litigation, class actions and derivative actions. She represents clients in an array of complex litigation proceedings in all courts of law and tribunals, as well as in complex arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Hagit possesses significant reputation regarding the representation of Israeli and foreign corporations and corporate executives having class actions brought against them, regarding corporate and securities law, insurance law, consumer protection, antitrust law, discrimination, banking, environmental law and more. She also represents some of Israel’s leading corporations, shareholders and corporate executives, operating in various fields, in proceedings relating to derivative actions. Her many years of experience in the field serve her clients through filing requests for approval of the claim as a class action and when required, through the class action itself and the attempts to resolve the dispute and minimize the corporation’s exposure to financial and reputational damage.
Hagit possesses extensive experience regarding complex shareholder, debenture-holder and creditor settlements in companies, and frequently represents clients in insolvency proceedings, liquidation and receivership proceedings that require innovative, out of the box solutions. She also represents defendants, including CPAs, executives and directors, in claims filed by court appointed officials as part of insolvency proceedings.
Hagit is a renowned expert in internet law. She represents search-engines and large corporations which operate in the technology and internet fields, in litigation proceeding and various commercial disputes, and possesses great knowledge of the foreign legislation and rulings in the field, which Israeli courts address while deciding their verdicts.
Among Hagit’s clients are Israeli and international private and public companies which operate in the fields of banking, retail, insurance, internet, communications and telecommunications, technology, and more; and she also represents the directors, senior executives and shareholders of these companies.
Hagit possesses significant reputation as a mediator and arbitrator of complex business disputes which involve large scale capital, including class actions and monetary disputes in various fields, such as shareholder disputes, developer – contractor disputes, development disputes, securities, insurance and consumer class actions, and more.
In the past, she served as the Chair of the Arbitration Committee of the Israel Bar Association and as the Academic Coordinator of the Arbitration Institute of the Israel Bar Association. She has been serving as Co-Head of the Class Action and Derivative Action Committee of the Israel Bar Association for over a decade.
Hagit is recognized as one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the dispute resolution, class action and insurance fields by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500.
Alongside her professional work, Hagit lectures at academic institutions and professional forums, and also serves as a lecturer on behalf of the Israel Bar Association in her fields of expertise, among them are class actions, derivative actions, civil procedure, contract law, commercial litigation, debt restructuring, arbitration, the enforcement of foreign verdicts, and more.
Hagit is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
LL.B., Tel Aviv University, 1993
Israel Bar Association, 1994
