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Legal Update: Competition & Antitrust – August 2019 (Hebrew)

On July 28, 2019 the Israeli Competition Authority (the “ICA“) published a new merger regulation draft (the “Draft“) and is seeking comments from the public. In the attached legal update, we describe the key features of the Draft. The Draft has two principal elements: An attempt to reduce the number of merger transactions which need […]

Ziv Schwartz | Aug 2019 | Legal Update

Legal Update: Competition & Antitrust – July 2019 (Hebrew)

How is significant market power assessed under Israeli competition law? Earlier this year, the amendment of the Israeli Restrictive Trade Practices Law (now called the Economic Competition Law) expanded the definition of a monopolist to include not only an entity which has a market share above 50% of the supply or acquisition of a product […]

Ziv Schwartz | Jul 2019 | Legal Update

GCR’s The European, Middle Eastern and African Antitrust Review 2020: Israel Overview

GCR published The European, Middle Eastern and African Antitrust Review 2020. The publication’s “Israel Overview” was written by FBC’s Tal Eyal-Boger, Ziv Schwartz and Shani Brown. Please find a PDF copy of the Israel Overview here.

Tal Eyal-Boger & Ziv Schwartz & Shani Brown | Jul 2019 | Publication

Legal Update: Competition & Antitrust – June 2019 (Hebrew)

On June 17, 2019 the Israeli Competition Authority (“ICA“) published its Position Paper 1/19 (the “Position Paper“) with the aim to provide guidelines for institutional investors wishing to make joint decisions of companies that they hold. Since according to the ICA cooperation between competing institutional investors may, under certain circumstances, amount to a restrictive arrangement […]

Ziv Schwartz | Jun 2019 | Legal Update