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Eyal Nachshon
Adv. Eyal Nachshon is a partner in the firm's Litigation Department and leads its corporate and commercial litigation, class action, and derivative suit practices.
He specializes in managing high-stakes commercial disputes before all courts in Israel, as well as in arbitration and mediation proceedings, including matters involving economic and commercial law, particularly corporate and securities laws.
Corporate Litigation
Eyal has unique expertise in representing some of Israel’s leading clients, including financial institutions, public and private companies, and officers and senior business figures in control, shareholder and investor, and multinational disputes.
He also has extensive experience representing corporations and officers in derivative suits and minority oppression claims, as well as in administrative petitions and appeals to the High Court of Justice involving economic matters.
Class Actions
Eyal heads Barnea Jaffa Lande’s class action practice.
Over the years, he has amassed considerable, wide-ranging experience representing companies and entities in class actions involving diverse aspects of corporate law, as well as disclosure and reporting issues under securities law. He also represents clients in class actions involving antitrust matters, as well as banks and institutional entities in consumer-related class actions.
Leading legal directories in Israel and internationally consistently recommend Eyal as a class action lawyer, citing his success in obtaining dismissals of complex, large-scale class actions while fully protecting his clients’ commercial interests.
Legal 500 ranks Eyal as a leading partner in class action litigation, noting, “As well as his ‘outstanding’ skills in the class action sphere, Eyal Nachshon also provides ’clear, strategic and responsive’ advice on other commercial disputes, often with a cross-border complexion.”
Intellectual Property
Eyal’s expertise also includes representing corporations, producers, and artists in intellectual property litigation involving copyrights, trademarks, patents, commercial torts, and defamation.
Eyal serves as chief legal counsel of Eshkolot, the Company for the Performing Rights of Israeli Artists. In this role, he leads Eshkolot’s legal representation in all litigation, regulatory, and corporate governance matters, and advises its board of directors on all aspects of its activities.
Early in his career, following his LL.M. from Columbia Law School in New York, Eyal served for several years as judicial assistant to Supreme Court Justice (Ret.) Esther Hayut.
Education:
Columbia Law School, New York, LL.M. (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), 2011
University of Haifa, LL.B. and B.A. in Economics (cum laude), 2008
Admission:
Israel Bar Association, 2009
Insights & News - Eyal Nachshon:
The Battle Continues | Maariv and Israel Hayom Report on USD 2.5 Million Claim in Maccabi Tel Aviv Ownership Dispute
Our firm represents VR Capital Group, headed by Richard Deitz, one of the owners of Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Club, in a claim for approximately USD 2.5 million against Guy Harel and ENDVR MTA, headed by Jason Levien. The claim concerns a transaction to acquire shares in the club. VR Capital Group alleges that the defendants’ actions violated the shareholders’ agreement, induced other shareholders to breach it and infringed its right of first refusal. VR Capital Group is represented by Adv. Zohar Lande, Adv. Eyal Nachshon, Adv. Shay Bello, and Adv. Shani Tsur of our Litigation Department.
2026 IBA Conference in Copenhagen
Adv. Micky Barnea, Adv. Simon Jaffa, Adv. Ariella Dreyfuss, Adv. Eyal Nachshon, and Adv. Liat Keisary will attend the annual International Bar Association (IBA) Conference in Copenhagen. They look forward to a week of meetings with friends and colleagues from around the world to discuss market developments, cross-border work, and opportunities for collaboration. During the conference, Adv. Liat Keisary, a partner at our firm, will speak on a panel exploring LGBTQ+ family rights, cross-border parenthood, and surrogacy. She will also moderate a panel on legal marketing in the digital age and the professional ethics of social media use.
Maccabi Tel Aviv Shareholder Dispute Referred to Arbitration
We represent Richard Deitz, a shareholder in Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball Club and Chairman of VR Capital Group, in a shareholder dispute concerning the club's ownership structure. Following actions taken by the other shareholders that, according to Deitz, were intended to prevent him from increasing his stake in the club, we applied to the court for interim relief pending resolution of the dispute through arbitration. Under the court's decision, the dispute will proceed to arbitration, including the question of Deitz's right of first refusal to acquire additional shares in the club. Adv. Zohar Lande, Adv. Eyal Nachshon, Adv. Shay Bello, and Adv. Shani Tsur of our Litigation Department represent VR Capital Group.