Litigation / Class Actions

A class action allows an individual plaintiff to petition the court to authorize him to file a lawsuit on behalf of members of a class of injured parties, who have empowered the plaintiff to act on their behalf. By doing so, the lower sums from individual claims can be aggregated to a single, potentially higher class action sum. Class actions are a key tool for deterring corporate misconduct and for the “private enforcement” of statutory provisions governing many fields, including consumer protection, banking, insurance, corporations and securities, equality, and prevention of discrimination.

Our firm specializes in representing public and private companies, as well as officers and controlling shareholders of companies, in defeating motions to certify class actions involving, inter alia, corporate law, antitrust law, securities law, and consumer protection law. Our firm has helped to repel class actions filed against some of the largest companies in the Israeli economy, including financial institutions, high-tech companies, investment funds, income-generating real estate companies, e-commerce entities, and various international entities, as well as against some of the most prominent businesspersons in the economy.

In recent years, our firm has also amassed extensive experience and expertise in representing companies and businesspersons during class actions filed by virtue of the Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities Law. These class actions concern, inter alia, the physical and digital accessibility of businesses and the services they provide to people with disabilities. In this regard, our firm advises many public companies in Israel on making their services accessible to people with disabilities.