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July 14, 2022
Barnea Representing Businessman in NIS 20 Million Lawsuit against Moshe Hogeg
Advs. Zohar Lande, Moran Bickel, Michael and Asaf Glasner are representing an American businessman in a NIS 20 million lawsuit against Moshe Hogeg, Adi Sheleg, Singulariteam, and additional defendants.
The plaintiff claims the defendants prompted him to invest in a cryptocurrency venture called Stox, which did not really exist, and fraudulently pocketed the investment funds.
July 3, 2022
Latest Legislative Amendments to Promote Pinui-Binui Projects
The importance of pinui-binui (vacate-and-build) projects for resolving the housing shortage in Israel has spurred new legislation to resolve the problem of recalcitrant tenants, to define what constitutes a majority of tenants in such projects, and to regulate projects in neighborhoods comprised of detached houses.
June 30, 2022
Barnea Representing Entrepreneur in Conflict over Cannabis Growing Venture in Golan Heights
Eyal Nachshon and Shachar Rothschild represented the entrepreneur and businessman Tomer Solomon against his former partners Uri Amitai, Nir Pelter, and Nadav Segal in a lawsuit over the rights to shares in a cannabis company founded by Solomon. After a hearing on the allegations, the court ruled Solomon was illegally deprived of his holdings, in violation of agreements with him. Therefore, the court ordered the enforcement of the agreements and the return of his holdings in the venture.
June 23, 2022
Barnea Representing Meir Arbiv in Dispute with Nochi Dankner
Advs. Zohar Lande, Moran Bickel, and Asaf Glazner are representing the agricultural entrepreneur Meir Arbiv, who claims Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner's new foodtech venture is based on his trade secrets. Arbiv alleges he passed on such information to Dankner after being convinced to enter into a partnership with him.
June 2, 2022
Dr. Zvi Gabbay Article Featured in "Law and Business" Journal
An article co-written by Dr. Zvi Gabbay, head of our firm's Capital Markets Department, will be featured in the next volume of Reichman University's "Law and Business" journal. The article deals with requests for early disclosure of documents under the Companies Law and how Israeli courts examine such requests, in a way that often misses the purposes of the request and sterilizes it from its content
May 29, 2022
Criminal Law and the Adoption of the “Aggregation Theory”
Israeli courts have adopted the “aggregation theory” when approaching the task of convicting defendants. It now seems this theory might also be applied to the “abuse of process” defense.
May 8, 2022
Plus Ventures and Oren Abeksis Sue Unicorn Company Lusha for Fraud
The investment fund Plus Ventures and private investor Oren Abeksis claim they invested millions of shekels in a previous incarnation of Lusha and that they were defrauded by the entrepreneurs. Zohar Lande, Eyal Nachshon, Dana Bookstein, and Naama Ben Arosh Moshe are representing the plaintiffs.
April 28, 2022
Victory in Lawsuit against Shavei Israel NPO
The Tel Aviv District Court ruled the non-profit organization Shavei Israel had operated improperly for two decades in reporting to the Registrar of Associations that Ms. Sarah Green was a member of the organization. Ms. Green’s ex-husband, the founder of the non-profit, was apparently falsifying her signature on documents submitted to the Registrar. Ms. Green was represented by Advs. Zohar Lande, Gal Livshits, Zohar Haim Levinger, and Naama Ben Arosh Moshe.
April 6, 2022
Representing Amir Birman before Supreme Court
Advs. Hadar Israeli, Eran Elharar, and Shir Rozenzweig represented Amir Birman, one of the directors of Keren Or, in a sentencing appeal. The Supreme Court significantly reduced his sentence and granted him permission to appeal to Israel’s President for a pardon.
March 9, 2022
Representing Shikun & Binui and Egged in Administrative Petition
Our firm is representing Shikun Binui and Egged in an administrative petition filed with the Jerusalem District Court over the tender committee's decision not to disqualify the bids of French company Alstom and Russian company TMH in the tender for the Jerusalem Light Rail's Blue Line.
Advs. Zohar Lande, and Shai Avnieli provided representation in the matter.
February 21, 2022
Website Accessibility - Legislation and its Meaning
Adv. Anat Even Chen and Adv. Eyal Nachshon, Partners at our office, lectured today at the website builders forum on the requirements and obligations of owners, site builders, and site operators given the obligation to access the degrees.
February 17, 2022
Product Descriptions Are Also Copyright Protected
The Bat Yam Magistrate’s Court recently deliberated on the question of whether a product description is protected by copyright. The court ruled that a marketing text constitutes a copyrighted work, even if it includes a technical description of a product.
February 13, 2022
Nothing Lasts Forever – New Israeli Supreme Court Ruling Expected to Reduce Legal Protection Granted to Managers and Board Members in Israel
After a lawsuit filed by liquidators of a company that collapsed against the company’s former officers, directors, and independent auditors was dismissed in limine, a new Israeli Supreme Court ruling overturned that decision and allowed the liquidators to move forward with the lawsuit, alleging that lack of oversight was what led to the company’s collapse. The significance of this new ruling is that the “business judgment rule” will no longer be interpreted as providing automatic protection to executives, and they may now be compelled to participate in lengthy legal proceedings to prove their entitlement to legal protection.
January 30, 2022
Representing Owners of Luxury Tel Aviv Property in Lawsuit Filed against Them
Israeli basketball player Yoni Nir has filed a lawsuit against three women who own a property in the upscale Nahalat Yitzhak neighborhood in Tel Aviv. The lawsuit alleges the women refused to abide by a "binding sale agreement" signed between them for the sale of the property in the amount of NIS 4.9 million together with renovation costs. Our firm’s Daphna Klein and Shahar Poller Atzil are representing the defendants in the case.
January 11, 2022
Hadar Israeli Interviewed about Extradition Proceedings on Channel 12's "Galit and Yoav"
Hadar Israeli, a partner in our firm, was interviewed on the Channel 12 television program hosted by Galit Gutman and Yoav Limor. She explained the difference between an extradition and a summons to an interrogation. You are invited to watch (starting at 32:00).
January 10, 2022
Dramatic Ruling on Excessive Pricing: District Court Denies Two Motions to Certify Class Actions against Tnuva
In December 2021, the Jerusalem District Court dismissed two motions to certify a class action against the leading dairy manufacturer in Israel, Tnuva, for charging excessive prices. Both the motion and the dismissal are part of an intense dispute for years. The dispute revolves around whether the prohibition of a monopolist charging an “unfair” price applies to charging excessive fees. In 2014, the director-general of the Competition Authority published a public statement on the prohibition of excessive pricing by a monopoly.
January 2, 2022
Lawsuit filed against Berggruen Residential Limited and Hajaj-Cohen Investments
Our firm is representing the tenants' representatives, as well as 189 apartment owners in the luxury project Meier on Rothschild, in a lawsuit filed against the project's entrepreneur and founder, Berggruen Residential Limited and Hajaj-Cohen Investments. The NIS 2.8 million lawsuit alleges very serious deficiencies and omissions were discovered in the project.
December 23, 2021
I Shared Someone Else’s Photo on Instagram. Did I Commit Copyright Infringement?
Sharing images on Instagram and other social network platforms is such a common practice that we do it without hardly even thinking about it. But we must be aware that sharing a piece of creative content (picture, text, etc.) has implications in terms of copyright laws.
December 16, 2021
Representing Azrieli Group against MOH Plan to Mark Vaccinated People with Bracelets in Malls
As part of a new wave of COVID-19 restrictions, the Israeli Ministry of Health sought to implement a plan to mark vaccinated people with bracelets in all malls and shopping centers, thereby allowing them to walk freely around such complexes (as opposed to unvaccinated people). The Azrieli Group, through Advs. Zohar Lande, Eran Winner, Anat Even-Chen, Ido Vakshi, and Gaya Tsarfati, sent an urgent appeal to the Prime Minister, the Ministers of Health, Economy and Industry, and Justice, and the Attorney General. In the appeal, we argued that the plan is “discriminatory, offensive, unreasonable, and disproportionate.” In light of the criticism, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health have decided to walk back the bracelet plan and not include it in the government vote for implementing the Green Pass in malls.
December 15, 2021
Shareholder Dispute at SeeTree Startup
Advs. Eyal Nachshon and Shachar Rothschild represent the minority shareholders of the SeeTree startup. The minority shareholders, who until recently held 3.8% of the company’s shares, claim in the lawsuit we filed that their holdings were diluted to 3.074%, depriving them of their rights, while the majority shareholders exceeded their authority and violated obligations to them. The startup completed a sixth round of funding this year at a value of USD 70 million.