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Tadmor & Co. Yuval
Levy & Co.
Tadmor & Co. Yuval Levy & Co. is a leading Israeli law firm with a global perspective, dedicated to providing sophisticated,
first-rate legal advice to clients operating in all sectors of the economy.
The firm's practice groups and lawyers are consistently recommended by international legal publications and directories,
including Chambers Global, Legal 500, Global Competition Review (GCR), Who’s Who Legal, IFLR 1000 and by domestic
legal directories. The firm's Antitrust and Competition practice group is recognized as competition law experts in Israel and
is ranked as a tier 1 practice by all professional directories.
The Antitrust and Competition practice group was involved in virtually all major antitrust cases in recent years and has an
unmatched depth of experience in all areas of antitrust law. We represented approximately 20% of all multinational filings
to the Israel Antitrust Authority (IAA) in the last year (mergers and exemption requests). We are also known for our unique
expertise in class actions and litigation in connection with multinationals and offer an unparalleled expertise in several
sectors, including shipping, pharmaceuticals, and food.
The group was established by Dr. David E. Tadmor, the former Commissioner of the IAA and one of Israel's top commercial
lawyers. Dr. Tadmor has over 20 years of experience and leads the practice group's team together with Shai Bakal, the
former head of the mergers team at the IAA, and another of the firm's highly esteemed experts in this field.
Shai Bakal is the head of the firm’s Antitrust and Competition group. Shai regularly advises and represents leading
corporations in Israel and abroad with respect to all aspects of complicated antitrust matters. He is well versed in the
issues facing all of the different sectors of the Israeli economy, particularly the pharmaceutical, food, shipping, energy, retail,
and banking sectors. Shai has created and implemented antitrust compliance programs for large Israeli companies and
multinational corporations.
Shai represents clients in complex antitrust litigation before the Antitrust Tribunal and civil courts, including class actions,
appeals and administrative petitions before the Supreme Court.Shai also represents clients before various Israeli regulators.
In the past, Shai practised law in the legal department of the Israel Antitrust Authority (2002-2007),where he was in charge
of, among other areas, the food sector, retailing, and intellectual property. He was later appointed as the head of the IAA’s
mergers team. During his term at the IAA, Shai drafted several key policy documents, including the “Antitrust General
Director’s Premerger Filing Guidelines” and the “Antitrust General Director’s Position on Commercial Arrangements among
Suppliers and Retail Chains.”
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