Meitar Law Offices is praised for its ‘great team of litigators with expertise in diving into complex issues’. The group is uniquely positioned to handle multi-jurisdictional matters, with its strong multinational client base and deep pool of dual-qualified lawyers underpinning its cross-border offering. It also defends major domestic companies in high-stakes cases. Highlighted as ’a great litigator’, Nadav Weisman maintains a broad contentious practice, with a focus on class actions, derivative actions, shareholder disputes and D&O liability. Weisman co-heads the wider litigation practice together with Israel Leshem — who is dual-qualified in Israel and New York — and Eyal Rosovsky. The team also includes Ron Peleg, who is revered by some as ‘the best pharmaceutical class action lawyer in Israel’.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Meitar is the best firm I've worked with in recent years. It has a great team of litigators with expertise in diving into complex issues and litigating. The firm also has a great commercial team.’

  • ‘Nadav Weissman is a great litigator. Israel Leshem is a great litigator and commercial lawyer.’

  • ‘The Meitar team is extremely knowledgeable about class actions, which are common in Israel. It is particularly strong in pharma class actions, where I believe it is the best in Israel with nobody else coming close. It also has a strong ability to work with foreign clients, who may not be familiar with Israeli procedures.’

  • ‘Ron Peleg is "Mr Pharmaceutical Litigation" in Israel. He understands the industry incredibly well and is literally the best pharmaceutical class action lawyer in Israel. He has built a strong team around him, which benefits from his experience — many of them have been doing this work for many years.’

Key clients

  • Volkswagen Group
  • Monsanto Company; Bayer; Adama Agan
  • Renault Group
  • Philip Morris
  • LG Display Co.
  • Citigroup
  • Sony Group Corporation
  • Pelephone Communications
  • LinkedIn Corporation, LinkedIn Ireland
  • GlaxoSmithKline (Israel)
  • Nesher Israel Cement Enterprises
  • Meitav Dash Gemel and Pension
  • Isuzu
  • Suzuki
  • UPS
  • Tesla
  • BYD
  • Expedia Group (including Hotels.com)

Work highlights

  • Represented Volkswagen, and its brands, in a series of class-action cases, including in a case focusing on the fallout from the global diesel emission matter, alleging Volkswagen misled clients and authorities about fuel emissions from the EA 189 diesel engine.
  • Successfully represented LG Display Co in a decade-long antitrust class action alleging its involvement in an LCD-TFT display cartel.
  • Represented LinkedIn in a class action seeking certification for two distinct classes.

Lawyers

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Nadav Weissman, Eyal Rosovsky, Israel Leshem

Other key lawyers

Ron Peleg, Yoav Oestreicher, Ali Bursztyn, Adi Fremder, Noam Gilon