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March 7, 2023

District Court Dismisses 66 Class Actions over Accessibility

In a precedential 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. Eyal Nachshon, Zohar Haim Levinger, and Naama Ben Arosh Moshe represented a large number of the companies.

January 19, 2023

Webinar: Accessibility of Company’s Reports

As part of a webinar held by the Israeli Association of Publicly Traded Companies, Eyal Nachshon lectured on the accessibility of company reports in the Magna and Maya systems and the exposure of public companies to public lawsuits in connection with the violation of accessibility obligations.

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.  

December 14, 2021

Accessibility Requirements for Public Company Reports – Advising the Association of Publicly Traded Companies

Our firm is advising the Association of Publicly Traded Companies vis-a-vis the Ministry of Justice, the Commission for Equal Rights for Persons with Disabilities, and the Israel Securities Authority regarding accessibility requirements for public company reports.   From the legal review we prepared for the client, we determined there is no place or justification, even from a broad international perspective, to impose accessibility requirements on companies with regard to public company reports, or to allow private enforcement (in the form of class action lawsuits) against public companies.