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Commercial, Banking and Financial
International Transactions and Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
An Israeli company acquires different perfumes, imports them to Israel by parallel importation, opens them, transfers the contents to small vials of 8 ml each and sells them. On each vial, the company notes, inter alia, the perfume manufacturer’s name and the perfume’s name. A French manufacturer of perfumes contended that this is a trademark […]
A tenant’s deception as to his identity is a cause for cancellation of a rental agreement by the landlord
Real Estate
Dispute Resolution
After signing a brief tenancy termsheet, the landlord discovered that the tenant had recorded an incorrect identity number in the agreement to conceal his criminal past in fraud offences and proceedings against him for the non-evacuation of a previously leased property, as well as the existing collection proceedings against him. When the tenant refused to […]
A frozen embryo is not the property of any of the parents and cannot be delivered to a surrogate without an agreement
Parentage, Surrogacy and Adoption
Dispute Resolution
Domestic Relations
Prior to the marriage, due to a medical issue that prevented the husband from procreating after a medical procedure, sperm cells were frozen and after their insemination one child was born and one frozen fetus remained. As part of divorce proceedings, the husband demanded that he be given the frozen embryo so that he could […]
To disclose or not to disclose, that is the question
Commercial, Banking and Financial
High-Tech and Technology
A software company developed a product for a client according to its instructions, but the client demands compensation on the grounds that the software company did not reveal to it, before commencement of development, that there are competitors in the market. Sounds puzzling? These are exactly the facts of a case in which our firm […]
A company that is set up to continue the activity of a collapsed company may be liable for its debts
Business, Corporate and Joint Ventures
Dispute Resolution
A supplier of a printer equipment distribution company sought to obligate to pay the debts of the company both the shareholder of the company and a new company such shareholder incorporated and is actually continuing the path of the original company that financially collapsed. The Court held that the new company and the shareholder are […]
A manager of a corporation is personally liable for environmental criminal offenses of the corporation if did not act to prevent them
Public Law, Environment and Tenders
Criminal Law
Business, Corporate and Joint Ventures
A limited partnership dealing with landfill and recycling and manages a waste site and a company managing such site were charged together with their managers for breaching its business permit because waste was spilled outside the site and the site had untreated polluted water. As a result, environmental hazards were cause, including acute odor hazards. […]
A holographic will must be all written by the testator including the date in his handwriting and a signature
Intergenerational Law (Trusts, Estates, Lasting Powers of Attorney, Parenting)
Dispute Resolution
A couple prepared a document handwritten by the man and titled “Partnership Agreement”. The document was drafted in the plural language and provided instructions for distributing their property after either or both of them die, all drafted in a language of consent between the parties. The Court held that the partnership contract cannot be recognized […]
