White Collar and Competition Law

Our firm has the required experience to represent our clients through the wide array of proceedings defined as "White Collar" crimes.

 

In this respect, we provide our clients the required legal services, and inter alia, accompany our clients through the initial investigation, the preliminary hearings, the filing of the bill of indictment and, of course, through the litigation proceedings before all Israeli courts and tribunals. Our firm's services further include providing our clients, commercial companies as well as their officers, preventive instruction in accordance with the applicable laws in various legal fields, in order to run a business in accordance to all applicable laws.

 

Our firm also provides legal service to clients in various competition law issues, on all of its various aspects, both in the civil and criminal procedures.
 

Highlights:

  • Our firm represented a senior official in the Jerusalem Municipality, in connection with police investigations of alleged bribery in relation to the purchase by former Prime Minister, Mr. Ehud Olmert, of his private house, and in the investigation in relation to the Holy-Land residential project in Jerusalem.

  • Our firm represents the Israel Salt Industries Ltd, a public company controlling the salt market in Israel, in a class action claim brought against it for constituting an alleged restrictive arrangement with a Cypriot salt manufacturer, resulting in elimination of the business competition and increasing the price for the end users.

  • Our firm represented an Israeli importer and distributor of energy bars in a criminal complaint brought against him by the Israel Antitrust Authority for alleged attempt to constitute a restrictive arrangement with another energy bar distributor.

  • Our firm represented an Israeli cigarettes importer in a criminal complaint brought against him by the Israel Tax Authority for alleged violation of Sales Tax duties. The crux of the proceedings involved a dispute regarding the manner in which Sales Tax should be calculated with respect to un-supervised cigarettes. Following these proceedings the regulations as to the Sales Tax calculation were updated.