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Class Actions

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With international and local recognition as a leading firm by major ranking guides, S. Horowitz class actions practice successfully leads the representation of defendants in significant class actions, involving amounts in the billions of shekels.

Throughout the practice’s years of operation, the firm has represented and continues to represent defendants in the largest and most significant class actions in Israel, relating to various sectors and legal and regulatory issues.

The practice’s partners have extensive experience representing international and local companies, financial institutions, and various entities in a wide range of class actions, including those relating to the automotive industry, energy industry, competition law, telecommunications matters, banking and financial services matters, liability for defective products, environmental claims, insurance matters, prohibition of discrimination in products and services, class actions relating to the hospitality sector, class actions in the infrastructure and real estate sector, and more. In addition, the practice’s partners also have extensive experience representing defendants in shareholders’ derivative suits and securities law matters.

The firm currently handles hundreds of class actions, including those considered the largest and most complex ever filed in Israel, such as applications for approval of class actions against Israel Electric Corporation Ltd., Google Inc., Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Inc., Toyota Motor Corporation, Stellantis, some of the world’s largest airlines, and most banks in Israel. We offer our clients depth of resources, legal expertise and creativity, and in-depth familiarity with a wide range of sectors, in order to help them deal with such lawsuits, with a deep understanding of their business needs and objectives.

Core Capabilities

  • Competition Law: Defense against class actions in the field of competition law violations and class actions related to consumer protection.
  • Financial Services: Representation of clients in banking matters, securities, and shareholder class actions.
  • Pharmaceutical Sector: Defense against class actions in the pharmaceutical field, including complex regulatory issues.
  • Energy Sector and Environmental Class Actions: Defense against class actions in the energy sector, including complex regulatory issues in the field, as well as against class actions relating to environmental pollution.
  • Product Liability Claims with Emphasis on the Automotive Industry: Handling class actions under tort law, consumer protection law and product liability, specific laws for various industries and more.
  • Insurance Sector: Our firm has extensive experience defending insurance companies against class actions in the insurance field.

"It is by far the best group of litigators in Israel. The team is highly skilled, very thorough and extremely client-oriented"

The Legal 500

Our services include advising clients at all stages, starting from crisis management that may lead to class actions or derivative suits, continuing with defense against applications for approval of class actions or derivative suits, and ending with representation in the lawsuits themselves. All while striving to achieve the client’s objectives, both in the immediate and long term.

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