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February 5, 2023

Barnea: Hosting Conference with the Israel Hedge Funds Association

Dr. Zvi Gabbay, Roy Engel, and Yana Zilbershtein lectured at a conference our firm hosted on the early years of hedge funds. The conference was held in collaboration with the Israel Hedge Funds Association. PWC and APEX Israel also took part.

February 2, 2023

Liabilities and Exposures to Claims by an Insolvency Trustee

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, Idan Miller explains if insolvency law prevents damage reduction for the contractee.

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February 2, 2023

Barnea: Guiding Djed in Successful Launch

We are honored to have guided Djed in its successful launch. Djed is a new stablecoin designed to maintain a stable value pegged to the US dollar. It provides its users with a decentralized and secure store of value and facilitates seamless transactions on the Cardano blockchain.

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February 1, 2023

Dr. Zvi Gabbay Participates in “Conference to Open Year of Compliance – 2023”

Dr. Zvi Gabbay, the head of our firm’s Capital Markets Department, participated in the Israeli compliance community’s annual conference for 2023. He spoke in a panel discussion with Hani Amar, a partner at BDO in the corporate governance and regulation division, and Adv. Ariel Sagi, a compliance officer and board member at Rafael.

January 31, 2023

Tax Plan and Acquisition of a Public Shell

The Israeli tax authorities are examining acquisition transactions, inter alia, to ensure they are not artificial transactions intended for offsetting losses. Transactions acquiring public shells are no exception in this regard.

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January 25, 2023

Barnea: Hosting Conference on Labor Law and Competition Law

Firm partners Gal Rozent and Neta Bromberg lectured at a conference we hosted for the CEOs of Israel’s leading cleaning companies, part of Israel’s cleaners’ union.

January 25, 2023

Determining Intellectual Property Value for Israeli Tax Purposes during a Sale between Related Parties

A sale of intellectual property between related parties requires advance planning and preparation in order to avoid tax exposures in Israel.

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January 25, 2023

Fine Imposed on Israeli Cyber Tech Company for Violating European GDPR

Israeli cyber companies operating in Europe are exposed to the GDPR even though they are registered in Israel, and even if the information they collect is not processed or stored in Europe.

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January 24, 2023

Doing Business in Israel through Agents and Distributors

According to the law, the relationship with the local agent is classified as either an agency agreement or a distribution agreement, depending upon the substantive nature of the arrangements between the parties and not the title the parties gave to the agreement.

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January 23, 2023

Contractor’s Insolvency during a Real Estate Project – How to Minimize Damages?

When a performance contractor in a real estate project becomes insolvent, the developer must make decisions and take a series of measures. It’s important to understand the legal implications of such measures and in what instances they could expose the developer to the filing of legal actions by the insolvency trustee appointed to the contractor.

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January 22, 2023

Israel: Monopoly Fined for Unfair Excessive Price

The Israeli Competition Director General fined MBI and company officers after they spiked the price of a life-saving drug called Leadiant by hundreds of percentage points.

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January 22, 2023

Israel: Foreign Company Fined for Failing to Comply with Competition Authority’s Request for Information

The Israeli Competition Authority believes its authority to issue information requests is not limited to Israeli companies, and that foreign companies with no affiliation to Israel are also subject to its authority and to fines for breach of the Competition Law.

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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.

January 18, 2023

2022: Trends in Israeli and International Privacy Regulations

2022 saw significant regulatory developments in the field of privacy protection in Israel and throughout the world. These developments directly affect companies whose business activities in Israel and internationally involve the collection and processing of personal information.

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January 16, 2023

Dudi Cohen Participates in Annual Dun’s 100 Forum of Capital Market and Finance Executives

As part of the annual Dun’s 100 forum, senior executives from the finance industry discussed such burning issues as the non-bank credit sector, the slowdown in high-tech and real estate activity, and more. Dudi Cohen, the head of our firm’s Finance and Public Corporations Department, noted that "even though in the near future we are likely to see a wave of companies realizing there is no place for them in the stock market and that they will be sold as skeletons or deleted from the trading rolls, we still need to remember that there are entities that have an interest in raising capital through the stock market."

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January 15, 2023

Is AI-Based Pricing a Detriment to Competitiveness?

The increasing commercial use of AI-based pricing engines will place new challenges before Israel’s competition authorities, both due to concerns about the creation of new means of price coordination between competitors, and, perhaps primarily, because such pricing engines intensify the competition failures that already exist, especially in low-competition markets. Gal Rozent and Ran Karmi elaborate on these challenges in an op-ed for Calcalist.

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January 15, 2023

ACC Podcast on Bond Issuances

As an expert in advising public companies, Elad Reshtick was asked to be a guest on the Association of Corporate Counsel’s podcast, where he spoke about the bond issuance process.

Episode 27 – Bond issuances: choosing the right time to raise debt in the stock market

Episode 28 – Bond issuances: the issuance process

Episode 29 – Bond issuances: the bond’s terms

January 15, 2023

Podcast: Administrative Enforcement

Dr Zvi Gabbay, the head of our firm’s Capital Markets Department, guest starred on an episode of the podcast hosted by the Association of Corporate Counsels in Israel. The episode focused on tools for dealing with administrative enforcement.

Episode 30 – How to prevent an enforcement procedure and how to manage it correctly– Dr. Zvi Gabbay

January 12, 2023

A Silent Epidemic – How to Identify, Handle, and Prevent Workplace Bullying

Netta Bromberg, the head of our firm’s Employment Department, was a guest on an episode of the “Bul-Bapony” podcast. Netta discussed the gap between what an individual pays versus an organization for bullying in the workplace and the difficulties in identifying it.

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January 12, 2023

Misha Gitterman Lectures at Reichman University

Misha Gitterman, a partner in our firm’s Finance and Public Corporations Department, lectured to graduate students in Reichman University’s Law, Technology and Business Innovation program as part of the course “Startup Capital Raising – From Angel Investment to IPO.”

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