Expertise

Competition Law
The firm leads the private enforcement of competition laws in Israel, mainly through complex class actions against cartels and monopolies. The firm also deals with representation before the Competition Authority of Israel and the various Courts regarding restrictive arrangements, exemption requests, mergers, and providing professional opinions.
Civil and Commercial Law
The firm deals with commercial litigation in all areas of civil law as well as accompanying transactions and drafting commercial contracts. The firm represents private clients in competition law (opinions, exemptions, abuse of dominance, mergers, representation in all courts, etc.), as well as clients in the fields of civil and commercial law.
About
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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– Class action against international firms that were parties to global Ro-Ro Cartel. – Class action against international payment companies participating in the inter-regional Interchange Fee. As part of the proceedings, victims of antitrust violations in Israel have been compensated to date with tens of millions of shekels (₪); the firm has also set important precedents in competition law and other issues such as evidence procedures (possibility of subpoenaing foreign parties to international cartels to trial in Israel based on findings originating outside of Israel), and helped further establish the extraterritorial applicability of Israel's competition laws, in matters of indirect victim claims and more.

Publications and Judgements
Settlement Agreements
Judgements & Verdicts

Judgment Against Panasonic in the Capacitors Cartel Class Action Lawsuit
C.A. 62701-07-17 P.M.A v. Panasonic et at.(Given on 7 Jan. 2025)
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Judgment Against Rubycon Corp in the Capacitors Cartel Class Action Lawsuit
C.A. 62701-07-17 P.M.A v. Panasonic et al. (Given on 7 Jan. 2025)
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Judgment Against Sharp in the LCD Panels Cartel Class Action Lawsuit
C.A. 53990-11-13 Hatzlacha v. AUO et al. (Given on 29 Sep. 2024)
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Judgment Approving Settlement Agreement with Nichicon in the Capacitors Cartel Class Action Lawsuit
C.A. 62701-07-17 P.M.A v. Panasonic et al.(Given on 9 Jul. 2024)
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Judgment that Nesher abused its Dominance in the Cement Industry and conducted illegal Price Discrimination
C.A. 6298-09-15 Hatzlacha v. Nesher (Given on 10 Jun. 2024)
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Judgment against Phillips and Hitachi in the CRT Cartel
Class Action Lawsuit 10812-11-14 Mirom et al. v. LG et al. (Given on 23 Jun. 2024)
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Judgment against Phillips in the ODD Cartel Class Action Lawsuit
C.A. 23139-05-16 Lanuel et al. v. Sony et al. (Given on 30 Apr. 2024)
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Judgment approving settlement agreement with Tecumseh in the Compressors Cartel Class Action Lawsuit
C.A. 42389-01-16 Zilberberg v. Panasonic et al. (Given on 14 Apr. 2024)
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Partial Judgment against Panasonic in the Compressors Cartel Class Action Lawsuit -
C.A. 42389-01-16 Zilberberg v. Panasonic et al. (Given on 20 Apr. 2023)
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Partial Judgment against Danfoss A.S in the Compressors Cartel Class Action Lawsuit
C.A. 53990-11-13 Hatzlacha v. Panasonic et al. (Given on 29 Dec. 2022)
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Judgment against Samsung in the LCD Panels Cartel Class Action Lawsuit
CAL 53990-11-13 Hatzlacha v. AUO et al.(Given on 9 Aug. 2022)
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The Supreme Court of Israel ruled, that an order of documents disclosure can be issued as part of preliminary proceedings in a class action lawsuit
7839/20 Civil Appeal Authority Kabushiki Kaisha v. Drorit Beja (Given on 6 Jan. 2022)
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The Supreme Court of Israel recognized the legality of applying Israeli Law to a class action lawsuit against an international cartel by virtue of the Effect Doctrine
Civil Appeal Authority 6646/19 R.L.P.I v. MAN et al. (Given on 12 Oct. 2021)
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The Supreme Court of Israel rules that the parent company of a corporation convicted of participating in a cartel can be summoned to court in Israel
Civil Appeal Authority 4199/20 Hatzlacha v. Chi Mei et al. (Given on 15 Aug. 2021)
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Judgment against AUO in the LCD Panels Cartel
C.A. 53990-11-13 Hatzlacha v. AUO (Given on 20 Apr. 2019)
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Judgement in the Class Action Lawsuit against Dead Sea Works for Abuse of Dominance
C.A. 41838-09-14 Weinstein v. Dead Sea Works (Given on 29 Jan. 2017)
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Select News Publications
Efrat Noyman, "TFT-LCD Cartel: Samsung settles to pay 14 million Shekels in Israel", The Marker, 16 June 2020 | Continue Reading
Julie Masson, "Lower court finds Israeli jurisdiction over foreign cartel", Global Competition Review, 7 May 2019 | Continue Reading
Efrat Noyman, "Partial Settlement in Class-Action against the LCD Cartel", The Marker, 21 April 2019 | Continue Reading
Ori BarAm and Elad Man, "The interest of credit card companies preceded that of the consumers", Globes, 18 January 2018 | Continue Reading
Ori BarAm and Elad Man, "The Interchange Fee is a Cartel in favor of the credit card companies", Calcalist, 30 May 2017 | Continue Reading
Irit Avisher, "The interchange Fee can not be used as a profit source for Credit Card Companies", Globes, 3 April 2017 | Continue Reading