Eran Winner

Our firm achieved another significant legal success in the field of franchise law, representing the “Kfar HaSha’ashuim” retail chain in a lawsuit against a former franchisee. The court accepted our client's claims and ruled that the franchisee had unlawfully used the brand after the termination of the agreement, emphasizing that franchise relationships are not binding once the contract ends. The case was led by Advs. Eran Weiner and Hadar Gonen.

In the "Three Court Rulings a Week" section, the ruling in which the Supreme Court annulled a tender for public transportation services in the Golan was selected, due to a conflict of interest involving a lawyer who advised the tender committee while also providing legal counsel to the winning bidder. Adv. Eran Winner, representing Superbus, which was declared "second qualified" in the appeal to the Supreme Court, stated: "We are pleased that the Supreme Court emphasized the importance of maintaining the integrity of the tender process. However, we regret that it was not established as a precedent that the entire tender should be annulled; rather, only the winning bid was disqualified, and our company was declared the winners of the tender as 'second qualified.'"

It was a pleasure to host a conference together with ACC Israel on embezzlement and fraud in the workplace. Firm partners Eran Winner, Netta Bromberg, and Hadar Israeli lectured on preparation, prevention, treatment, and crisis management of such situations. In addition, Ofer Alkalay analyzed specific cases of embezzlement and reviewed the lessons learned.