Insights & News

The recently enacted Digital Services Act is considered a major reform of services, content, and information in the digital sphere. It imposes new obligations on a wide variety of Israeli high-tech companies. Dr. Avishay Klein, head of our firm’s Privacy, Cyber and AI Department, lectured as part of a webinar hosted by GCs for GCs about the new law and its practical aspects, including when and how companies should prepare.

Does the ability to make a later offer in insolvency proceeding help creditors to receive more and allow the trustee to conduct a more thorough procedure?

A recent Supreme Court ruling found that during the dissolution of a real estate partnership, it is preferable to issue a decision already during the pre-trial hearing. As an expert in the field of commercial real estate, Adv. Terry Almozlino Arnon published an op-ed in Globes analyzing the ruling.

Adv. Itay Gura and Adv. Inbar Katzir represented the Israeli startup Daily.dev in a USD 11 million seed funding round. Daily.dev aims to build the world’s largest professional network for the global developer community.

We are happy to be a partner in the ReCombinant program, an AB InBev-TAU Ventures collaboration dedicated to fostering pilot activity and joint R&D. The program is supported by the Israel Innovation Authority.

Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe, a partner and head of our firm’s Kibbutz Sector Department, lectured at a conference on managing electricity distribution in kibbutzim and discussed various business models for electricity distribution.

Adv. Hagit Ben Moshe, a partner and head of our firm’s Kibbutz Sector Department, lectured today to the Land Management Forum on informed and proper management of transactions on kibbutz land.

In a landmark ruling, the Tel Aviv District Court dismissed 66 motions to certify class actions filed against dozens of public companies. The motions alleged the companies’ financial reports and reporting to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange’s MAYA system were not accessible to people with disabilities. Adv. Eyal Nachshon, Adv. Zohar Haim Levinger, and Adv. Naama Ben Arosh Moshe represented a large number of the companies.

Dr. Avishay Klein, the head of our firm’s Privacy, Cyber and AI Department, attended the Global Intellectual Property ConfEx in Dubai. Avishay spoke as part of a panel on IP data breaches, including preparing for cyber threats and dealing with cyber crises.  

Adv. Terry Almozlino Arnon, the head of our firm’s Real Estate Department, participated in the Dun’s 100 forum for senior legal professionals in the real estate field. The forum brought the professionals together to address burning issues in the industry. Topics of discussion this year included Israel’s housing crisis and the continued increase in interest rates.

Prof. Amichai Cohen was invited to write a series of articles about the new Israeli government’s proposed judicial reform and its implications for the Israeli legal system

The entrance into force of the European GDPR in 2018 had an international impact, imposing a series of privacy restrictions on companies. New privacy laws concerning fair conduct in the digital market and consumer protection are now about to come into force. Their impact on companies looks to be dramatic. Dr. Avishay Klein elaborates in an interview with N12.

Adv. Yuval Lazi was chosen to lead a taskforce table at the annual OurCrowd Global Investment Summit, dealing with “M&A Challenges in Light of Political and Economic Turmoil.”

Our firm held a webinar for members of GCs for GCs, in which we presented the existing regulation in Israel in the field of ESG and the trends in the US and Europe. The webinar also addressed ESG risk management in an environmental context.

The Knesset is looking to limit workers’ ability to go on strike. Adv. Netta Bromberg, the head of our firm’s Employment Department, explains the consequences of MK Simcha Rothman's bill on the right to strike.

Adv. Micky Barnea analyzes the issue of control struggles, hostile takeover attempts, and directors’ potential defensive measures. His op-ed was published in TheMarker's Ahad Ha'am magazine.

A worrying number of contracting companies in the real estate and infrastructure market have recently gone insolvent. A contractor’s financial collapse affects not only his creditors, but also the project’s contractee. In an op-ed, Adv. Idan Miller explains if insolvency law prevents damage reduction for the contractee.