Litigation / Class Actions
Our Litigation Department boasts extensive expertise and experience in handling all aspects of class actions – a unique and powerful procedural tool that grants considerable power to the class plaintiff against a number of entities and companies in the economy in a variety of industries and fields.
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.
Insights & News - Litigation / Class Actions:
Avishay Klein and Eyal Nachshon in TheMarker
TheMarker’s Ahad Ha’am magazine published an op-ed by Dr. Avishay Klein on the Israel Securities Authority’s latest guidelines on cyber risks (page 4). The same issue also features an interview with Eyal Nachshon in an article on the increase in scope of class action lawsuits against public companies in Israel (page 11). Eyal addressed, among other things, his representation of several companies in a recent series of digital accessibility class action lawsuits.
Class Actions Law: Eyal Nachshon Lectures on Israeli Association of Publicly Traded Companies Webinar
Eyal Nachshon, a partner in our firm’s Litigation Department, was invited to lecture on a webinar hosted by the Israeli Association of Publicly Traded Companies. Eyal discussed a recent case involving 70 simultaneous digital accessibility class action lawsuits. Also lecturing as part of the webinar were representatives from the Ministry of Justice and the Israel Securities Authority, who served as members on the committee examining the recently published amendment to Israel’s Class Action Law.
Class Actions on Accessibility of Public Companies' Reports Dismissed
At the conclusion of a proceeding conducted over about two years, an Israeli court recommended that the class plaintiffs withdraw their actions in light of the legal difficulties and since there is no reasonable possibility that the legal questions will be ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs accepted the court's recommendation, and the court dismissed in limine 66 class actions.
Litigation / Class Actions
Our Litigation Department boasts extensive expertise and experience in handling all aspects of class actions – a unique and powerful procedural tool that grants considerable power to the class plaintiff against a number of entities and companies in the economy in a variety of industries and fields.
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.
Insights & News - Litigation:
Avishay Klein and Eyal Nachshon in TheMarker
TheMarker’s Ahad Ha’am magazine published an op-ed by Dr. Avishay Klein on the Israel Securities Authority’s latest guidelines on cyber risks (page 4). The same issue also features an interview with Eyal Nachshon in an article on the increase in scope of class action lawsuits against public companies in Israel (page 11). Eyal addressed, among other things, his representation of several companies in a recent series of digital accessibility class action lawsuits.
Class Actions Law: Eyal Nachshon Lectures on Israeli Association of Publicly Traded Companies Webinar
Eyal Nachshon, a partner in our firm’s Litigation Department, was invited to lecture on a webinar hosted by the Israeli Association of Publicly Traded Companies. Eyal discussed a recent case involving 70 simultaneous digital accessibility class action lawsuits. Also lecturing as part of the webinar were representatives from the Ministry of Justice and the Israel Securities Authority, who served as members on the committee examining the recently published amendment to Israel’s Class Action Law.
Class Actions on Accessibility of Public Companies' Reports Dismissed
At the conclusion of a proceeding conducted over about two years, an Israeli court recommended that the class plaintiffs withdraw their actions in light of the legal difficulties and since there is no reasonable possibility that the legal questions will be ruled in favor of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs accepted the court's recommendation, and the court dismissed in limine 66 class actions.