Hilla Peleg

Hilla Peleg is a Partner and Co-Head of the firm’s Litigation Division, which comprises more than 70 partners and attorneys.

Hilla’s practice focuses on commercial and corporate litigation, class actions, administrative and regulatory litigation, crisis management, and the representation of companies, boards of directors and officers in complex legal proceedings. She provides clients with strategic legal support—from advance planning, risk assessment and strategy development through the management of proceedings, investigations and crises in real time. Her experience also includes advising companies and corporations on enforcement, compliance and regulatory matters, as well as representing clients in insolvency-related proceedings.

Hilla combines extensive litigation experience with a strong understanding of commercial and regulatory considerations, as well as the ability to quickly identify an organization’s key areas of risk. She acts as a strategic partner to her clients, tailoring the legal response to the organization’s characteristics, business environment and objectives.

Commercial and Corporate Litigation

As part of her practice, Hilla represents companies, boards of directors, officers and controlling shareholders in complex commercial and corporate disputes. Her experience includes representation in proceedings concerning commercial agreements, control disputes, shareholders’ rights, directors’ and officers’ liability, corporate governance, and disputes involving regulatory and public-law aspects.

Class Actions and Administrative Proceedings

Hilla represents companies and organizations in complex class actions with broad-ranging implications, including matters relating to accessibility, consumer protection, competition, pharmaceuticals and regulation. She also represents clients in administrative petitions and proceedings before authorities and public bodies, including matters of significant public and economic importance.

Crisis Management, Investigations and Insolvency

Hilla advises companies and corporations in addressing crises arising from criminal or administrative investigations, legal claims and class actions. Her work includes advance preparation for crisis situations, strategic legal management in real time, management of stakeholder relations, and the development of measures to draw lessons, reduce exposure and restore public and customer confidence.

Hilla also has experience representing officeholders and controlling shareholders in insolvency-related proceedings, including investigations and legal proceedings concerning the conduct of a company and the sale of its assets.

Regulation, Enforcement and Compliance

Hilla advises companies and corporations on addressing evolving regulatory requirements, implementing enforcement and compliance mechanisms, and mapping legal and regulatory risks. She provides preliminary advice to corporations operating in Israel and to international corporations seeking to ensure that their business activities comply with local legal and regulatory requirements.

Industries

Hilla’s clients include companies and corporations operating in a range of industries, including banking and financial services, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, energy, consumer products and e-commerce.

In recent years, Hilla has developed the LAWgorithm, a novel system that concentrates all of the operative provisions applicable to the company from the various sources of law in one place. The system assists the firm’s attorneys in optimizing the process of recognizing and mapping risks in a fast, efficient and cost-effective manner while maintaining professional excellence.

• Representing Shimon Goldberg, the former controlling shareholder of Slyce, and Shay Goldberg in proceedings before the Tel Aviv District Court concerning the sale of Slyce’s investment-track funds to the Phoenix Group, including claims regarding an alleged debt owed by Phoenix to Slyce and its effect on the terms of the transaction.
• Representing small business owners in proceedings concerning accessibility-related class actions, which led to a significant change in the legal approach regarding the requirement to approach businesses before filing a claim.
• Representing Tadiran Batteries in a claim of approximately NIS 20 million against the Brenner Regional Council, the head of the Regional Council and the Shurakot Local Planning and Building Committee, concerning the prevention of the company’s exercise of its rights to establish an industrial plant.
• Representing yad2 in a competition-law class action concerning allegations of violations of competition laws and the purported abuse of a monopolistic position, which concluded with a settlement agreement.
• Representing Perrigo Israel in a class action concerning the Eltroxin matter, which concluded with a settlement agreement in the amount of approximately NIS 47.5 million.
• Representing the Melisron Group in legal proceedings against the State of Israel in the context of the COVID-19 crisis and the dispute concerning the framework for reopening malls and shopping centers, as well as the implications of the closure of shopping centers for the relationships between mall operators and tenants, including issues relating to rent and management fees.
• Representing Nir David Kibbutz and its tourism company in proceedings in which an application for approval of a class action concerning the access policy to the Asi Stream was dismissed. The court held that the access policy did not constitute unlawful discrimination, while examining the balance between the public’s right of access to a natural resource and the kibbutz members’ rights to privacy and to maintain their routine within their community.