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Reuven Behar

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“Market icon Reuven Behar is regarded as ’one of the best lawyers in Israel’ and is often called on to sit as an arbitrator in high-level cases” Chambers & Partners “Reuven Behar is a thoroughly experienced practitioner with a long-standing reputation in this area” Chambers & Partners “Reuven Behar is ‘the quintessential legal adviser’ and ‘an expert in IP’” Legal 500 "Very well known and an outstanding lawyer in the field" Chambers & Partners "Thorough and business-oriented" Legal 500

Mr. Behar leads the firm’s Litigation and Competition & Antitrust Departments, fields in which he is one of Israel’s leading practitioners.  In addition to participating in high-profile antitrust and commercial litigation,  Mr. Behar has handled many of Israel's most significant and major M&A transactions.

Mr. Behar is also well-known for his work in the communications and intellectual property areas and serves as a mediator and arbitrator in complex commercial, intellectual property and family matters, as well as an executor in significant and high-profile probate cases. Mr. Behar is a member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Israel group for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI).

Mr. Behar’s clients include many of Israel’s leading “blue chip” enterprises, as well as major foreign corporations doing business in Israel. He represents Israeli companies in international transactions, litigation and arbitrations.

Mr. Behar graduated with high honors from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law School. Between 1976 and 1980, he served as the editor of the Hebrew University Law Review and as an assistant lecturer in corporations and criminal law at the Hebrew University Law School.

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Competition & Antitrust

Litigation

 

Litigation

Arbitration & Mediation

Intellectual Property

Competition & Antitrust

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Israel, 1981

J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Illinois, M.M., 1990

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LL.B. (Cum Laude), 1980

FBC Partners Nominated Best Lawyers in Israel 2016-2017

Congratulations to eight of our partners who were nominated as 'Best Lawyers in Israel'

Amir Chen & Gil Orion, Dr. & Tal Eyal-Boger & Avraham Well & Miri Kimhi & Tamar Turjeman-Kedem & Reuven Behar & Ronald Lehmann | Jan 2017

FBC’s Competition & Antitrust Department ranked by the GCR as an Elite practice

FBC’s Competition & Antitrust Department ranked by the GCR as an Elite practice

Tal Eyal-Boger & Reuven Behar | Dec 2015

Legal Update: FBC Represents Perrigo in its Rejection of Mylan’s Hostile Takeover Attempt

FBC represented Perrigo Company plc ("Perrigo"), a Dublin-based over-the-counter drug manufacturer traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange ("TASE"), as part of a global representation throughout the US, Ireland, the Netherlands and Israel, ...

Raz Tepper & Avraham Well & Reuven Behar & Gil Orion, Dr. & Meital Ben-Basat & Tali Delouya & Jana Rabinovich | Nov 2015

Reuven Behar recognized as an Eminent Practitioner in Competition & Antitrust by Chambers & Partners in the 2015 Edition

Reuven Behar recognized as an Eminent Practitioner in Competition & Antitrust by Chambers & Partners in the 2015 Edition 

Reuven Behar | Mar 2015

Reuven Behar ranked Band 1 in Dispute Resolution by Chambers & Partners in the 2015 Edition

Reuven Behar ranked Band 1 in Dispute Resolution by Chambers & Partners in the 2015 Edition 

Reuven Behar | Mar 2015

Country Survey – Israel’s Competition Bar – Global Competition Review

Country Survey - Israel's Competition Bar - Global Competition Review (January 2012)

Reuven Behar & Tal Eyal-Boger | Jan 2012
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