Boaz Golan is the founding partner B. Golan Law Firm a boutique firm specializing in Antitrust and Competition. As the former General Counsel of the Israel Antitrust Authority, he gained extensive experience in litigating both civil and criminal antitrust cases, and has profound familiarity with the Authority’s policy considerations and its practice in a large range of circumstances. Boaz decided in numerous cases in which the applicability of Israel antitrust law was an issue, as well as in matters regarding Israeli jurisdiction, such international mergers and restrictive arrangements that did not take place in Israeli territory. Boaz advises some of the largest Israeli corporations regarding their conduct and commercial practices vis-à-vis antitrust and competition law. He emphasizes measures to limit exposure to the corporations and to their senior management, such as internal compliance programs. For the past five years, Boaz, along with the current General Director of the Israel Antitrust Authority, has co-chaired advanced studies for antitrust practitioners at Tel-Aviv University.
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Criminal offence for foreign corporations failing to supervise antitrust violations In November 2014, the Israeli Ministry of Justice has published a bill regarding an amendment to the Penal Code (Criminal Responsibility of Corporations), 2014 (" the Bill"). Among others, the Bill updates the (...)
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Recently, the Israeli Antitrust Authority’s ("IAA") has published a green paper regarding a new Block Exemption for collaborations among competitors regarding Export Cartels in the Defense Industry (the "Green Paper" and the "Block Exemption for Defense Industry Export Cartels"). A. Background (...)
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Recently, the District Court of Jerusalem has sentenced the former CEO of the largest supermarket chain in Israel for actual imprisonment time. This verdict is very significant and is most likely to be a mile stone in the evolution of sanctioning for violations of antitrust law. It is (...)
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Last week, the Israeli Antitrust Commissioner has declared an abuse of dominance by the largest entity in the recycling sector, the Collecting Beverage Containers Corporation ("ELA"). Background: A declaration of an abuse of dominant power is a unique procedure available under the Restrictive (...)
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Recently the Israeli Antitrust authority published a Green paper concerning information exchange during pre-merger due diligence. Prior to this Green paper the subject of information exchange between competitors during due diligence was not dealt with directly under the Israeli legal system; (...)
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