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SubscribeThe Trial and Terror Balance: Risk Assessment Before Investors, Authorities, or a Random Hacker Come Knocking
Mergers and Acquisitions
Data Protection Officer (DPO) Services
High-Tech and Technology
An article on the importance of conducting a Legal-Accounting-Cyber risk assessment to understand a company's status before an event occurs that exposes these risks at a stage when it is too late to rectify them. The article was written by Doron Afik, Esq. of Afik & Co., CPA Eran Buchris, and Mr. Gabriel Marcus, a senior cyber architect
A car import license may be denied renewal also based only on industry-wide competition considerations, and not due to any act or omission by the importer
Competition
International Transactions and Disputes and Israeli “Soft Landing”
Dispute Resolution
The Ministry of Transport refused to renew the direct import licenses of a motorcycle importer for both Yamaha and Kawasaki brands, ruling that the license could only be renewed for one of them. The Supreme Court dismissed the importer’s appeal on competition grounds. The Israeli Law for the Licensing of Services and Professions in the […]
Mutual transfer of rights between relatives in a partition of property is not a “transfer without consideration” and may trigger a betterment levy
Real estate in Israel and around the world
Taxation and Government Incentives and Funding
Dispute Resolution
A brother and sister, who received three apartments from their father as a gift and recorded them under joint ownership, signed a partition agreement. Under the agreement, they transferred rights to one another to establish exclusive ownership of each apartment (“distribution in kind”), but refused to pay a betterment levy, contending that the transfer was […]
A fixed term agreement that is continued through conduct creates a new contractual framework that is not limited in time
Commercial, Banking and Financial
Dispute Resolution
A manufacturer and a franchisee signed a franchise agreement for 5 years with an option to extend it for 5 additional years. Following the end of the original term, the parties continued their working relationship without signing a new agreement. After the manufacturer unilaterally terminated the agreement only 3 years later, the franchisee demanded compensation […]
Joint activity of Afik & Co. with the Panama-Israel Chamber of Commerce – February 2026 Issue
Latam – Spain – Israel Activities
Publication of the February issue of the Panama-Israel Chamber of Commerce magazine, which also features cooperation between the Chamber and the Latin-American department of Afik & Co. (www.afiklaw.com/latam)
In the absence of a written document in a real estate transaction, the official recording prevails over oral agreements
Real estate in Israel and around the world
Dispute Resolution
Following a family dispute, a father moved to evict his son from a residential apartment in his ownership after the son and his family resided in the property for years without payment of consideration and without a written agreement. The Court granted the eviction claim. A commitment to grant a gift in real estate is […]
Favoring associates in the provision of services does not constitute prohibited discrimination under law
Commercial, Banking and Financial
Dispute Resolution
An individual evacuated from his home following the outbreak of the “Swords of Iron” war and accommodated in a hotel was demanded to move to another hotel, for reasons of required renovations while a group of evacuees associated with a hotel employee was allowed to stay. The Supreme Court rejected the contention of illegal discrimination. […]
