The firm, managed by Ori BarAm PhD, leads the private enforcement of competition laws (formerly known as antitrust laws) in Israel. BarAm, a lawyer since 1997, is also a lecturer at the academia (Peres Academic Center and the Academic Center for Law and Science), holds Law Degrees from Tel Aviv University (LLB, LLM, PHD) and a BA in Economics.

Since 2012, the firm has been leading complex and precedent-setting class action lawsuits against international cartels in various subjects, including (among others) the following:

– Class action against the three payment card companies in Israel, with respect to the Interchange fee and terms of payment in debit and prepaid payment cards

– Class action against DSW (Dead Sea Works) for abuse of dominance by excessive pricing of Potash

– Class action against international firms that were parties to global Compressor cartel

– Class action against international firms that were parties to global LCD cartel

– Class action against international drug company which abused its dominance by misleading the patent office

– Class action against international firms that were parties to global Lithium Batteries cartel

– Class action against international firms that were parties to global Truck Cartel

– Class action against international firms that were parties to global CRT cartel

– Class action against parties to educational books cartel.

– Class action against international firms that were parties to global LIBOR Scandal.

– Class action against international firms that were parties to global Forex Scandal.

– Class action against international firms that were parties to global Optical Disk Drive (ODD) cartel.

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