Lawyers

Eyal Roy Sage

Work Department

IP/IT, media and telecoms, antitrust/competition.

Position

Eyal Roy Sage is one of the firm’s founding partners and heads our Law and Technology Department, which concentrates in data protection and security, telecommunications and media, intellectual property and competition law.

Eyal’s practice concentrates in data protection and security, telecommunications and media, intellectual property and competition. He draws on his technical background to provide practical commercial and regulatory advice, helping bridge the gap between often outdated laws and modern technology.

Eyal’s clients include industry leaders in the technology, banking, insurance, financial services and telecommunications and media sectors. He represents the firm’s clients before the Privacy Protection Authority, other regulators, and parliamentary committees, participates in the defence teams of complex class action lawsuits in the areas of privacy, consumerism, and competition. Eyal regularly advises on Israeli law for foreign companies and is experienced in bilingual handling of litigation cases of foreign companies that are plaintiffs or defendants in Israel.

He has extensive expertise in handling the engagements of broadcasters for the production of content and for licencing the use of musical and audio-visual works on a collective basis.

He lectures, writes articles and provides instruction at conferences, in webinars and in courses on privacy protection and information security.

Eyal was recognized by local and international ranking guides:

  • The LEGAL 500 has recommended his work continuously since 2003, in the fields of intellectual property, high-tech and start-ups, telecom and media; as a leading lawyer on the Israeli law market in the field of telecom and media, he has been awarded the accolade of ‘Leading Individual’.
  • Chambers and Partners has ranked Eyal a leading lawyer in the areas of IT & Data Privacy, Intellectual Property, Telecom and Media.
  • Global Data Review, which ranks the world’s most prominent firms in the fields of Data Privacy, Cyber Security, IP, IT and TMT, has recommended Eyal as a leader in his domain.
  • DUN’S100 and BDi mentioned him as a leading lawyer in his field of expertise.

Career

Attorney at Covington & Burling (Brussels) 1994-1996. Attorney at Ron Gazit, Rotenberg & Co. 1996 - 2000. Partner at Ron Gazit, Rotenberg & Co. 2000-2010. One of the founding partners at AYR - 2010 -

Languages

English Hebrew French Dutch German.

Memberships

Israel Bar Association, 1994.

Licensed to practice in New York, 2002.

Licensed to practice in England, 2005 – non-active.

Education

The Hebrew University, LL.B., 1991.

London School of Economics, LL.M., 1992.

Personal

Fluent in Hebrew, English, French, German and Dutch.

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