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October 7, 2018

Israel Offers Fast Route to Restructuring in Nod to Startups

Adv. Harel Perlmutter, Head of the Tax Department, was interviewed by Bloomberg BNA following the Israel Tax Authority's announcement of a new "Green Route" to make it easier for Israeli entrepreneurs to transfer corporate assets abroad.

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October 4, 2018

All You Need to Know about Receiving Brokerage Fees in a Transaction

Here are a few rules of thumb to make it easier for you to receive the brokerage fee payment and to make it harder for your clients to evade such payment.

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October 3, 2018

Legal Workshop for The Xcelerator

Micky Barnea conducted today a legal workshop for The Xcelerator, the new accelerator program created jointly by the Israel Security Agency and Tel Aviv University’s TAU Ventures.

October 3, 2018

Event Invite: Defending Against Sexual Harassment at the Workplace in the UK, USA and Israel

Join Barnea and Squire Patton Boggs for a free training session on the issue of defending against sexual harassment in the workplace and receive an overview of the key legal and practical issues in the UK, the US and Israel.

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September 20, 2018

May It Be Renewed – Amendment to the Evacuation and Construction Law

The residential real estate market in Israel has been subject to drastic changes for some months. After years of a steady sharp uptrend in apartment prices, the number of real estate transactions has diminished, and apartment prices in most regions in Israel have either stabilized or dipped slightly.

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September 17, 2018

Hiring Employees Who Work from Home

Adv. Marie Tsion is featured in Mamon, Yedioth Ahronoth's financial supplement, on how to determine a policy for the scope of working from home.

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September 17, 2018

Israel’s Innovation Authority Issues New Know-How Licensing Rules for Multinational Corporations

Israel’s Innovation Authority (the IIA, formerly the Office of the Chief Scientist) has issued new rules regarding the licensing of IIA-funded know-how for use by multinational corporations outside of Israel.

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September 13, 2018

SEC Takes First Action against Crypto Hedge Fund

Adv. Daniel Israeli was interviewed by Calcalist following the SEC's decision to fine an unregistered crypto broker-dealers and its owners.

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September 6, 2018

What to Know before Signing a Contractor's Purchase Application

In most projects, the marketers/contractors/developers customarily require potential apartment buyers to sign a purchase application/proposal form. Read through these five points before signing.

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September 6, 2018

"Mechir Lamishtaken" Lottery Deemed Illegal

Our Head of the Internet Department, was interviewed by TheMarker about the lottery mechanism of the "Mechir Lamishtaken" plan. The mechanism was deemed illegal after it was discovered a permit was not obtained as required under Israel's Penal Code.

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September 5, 2018

A Small Step for the Regulator, a Big Step for Blockchain Technology

Dr. Zvi Gabbay has published an article in Globes about the changing financial regulation in the US around crypto coins.

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September 4, 2018

Activist Shareholders – The Israeli Challenge

Barnea and ACC hosted today a seminar on shareholder activism. Micky Barnea discussed activism in Israeli companies. Also presenting were Elchanan (Nani) Maoz from Everest Fund and Steve Wolosky from Olshan Frome Wolosky LLP.

September 4, 2018

Catalan Delegation

We hosted together with Catalonia Trade Investment a delegation of companies that arrived in Israel in search of new investment opportunities.

September 4, 2018

Bitcoin Makes Up 1% of World Electricity Consumption

Dr. Zvi Gabbay was interviewed by TheMarker on Bitcoin's energy consumption. Zvi believes this is a meeting point between the real economy and the new economy that Bitcoin represents.

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September 2, 2018

Employer Dos and Don'ts When Workers Form a Union

Our Head of Employment was interviewed by the radio station Kol Israel Reshet Bet on how an organization should conduct itself when workers want to form a union (starting at 35:30).

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September 2, 2018

Barnea Represented Visual Estate in Its Recent Round of Financing

Our firm represented the Israeli startup Visual Estate in its recent round of financing by private investors. Visual Estate is an SaaS platform that allows you to turn any floor plan into a fully immersive VR experience.

August 29, 2018

Have You Ever Paid Betterment Tax or Purchase Tax? You May Be Eligible for a Rebate

The Israel Tax Authority (ITA) recently launched an application that allows anyone who previously executed a real-estate transaction to check whether he or she has a credit balance in respect of an overpayment of betterment tax or purchase tax.

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August 29, 2018

New Privacy Protection Laws in Brazil and India

Both Brazil and India have recently passed new privacy protection laws. These laws may also apply to Israeli companies doing business in the countries.

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August 29, 2018

Supreme Court Increases Nochi Dankner's Sentence

Adv. Zvi Gabbay was interviewed by the newspaper Israel Hayom and the radio station Kol Israel Reshet Bet following the Supreme Court's decision to increase the sentence of Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner. Dankner was previously convicted of securities fraud.

Article from Israel Hayom

Kol Israel Reshet Bet (starting from min' 15:13)

August 27, 2018

Amendment to Block Exemption for Non-Horizontal Arrangements with No Particular Price Restrictions Approved

An amendment to a block exemption for non-horizontal arrangements with no particular price restrictions was recently approved. The purpose of the amendment to the block exemption is to clarify the term “competitors,” which was defined in a general and vague manner in the original block exemption.

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