Iris Achmon
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Band 3 : Competition/Antitrust
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About
Provided by Iris Achmon
Practice Areas
Antitrust & Competition.
Career
Iris is a partner at Herzog Fox & Neeman. She advises large entities, and multinationals in particular, on all aspects of Antitrust and Competition Law including complex mergers, restrictive arrangements, monopolies, the Food Law and Concentration Law, as well as compliance and the day-to-day conduct of companies with high exposure to antitrust and competition laws.
Iris has extensive experience in representing entities before the Israeli Competition Authority and the Competition Tribunal. Iris has handled various procedures such as administrative fines, declarations of breach, monopoly proclamations, exemption requests and pre-rulings; in a variety of sectors including hi-tech and telecom, bio and pharma, finance, transportation, energy, infrastructures, agriculture, food and retail.
Iris was employed with the Israeli Competition Authority for over 10 years, where she served as head of the legal department’s merger section and was in charge of the food and retail sectors. Iris also served as a member of the criminal litigation team of the Israeli Antitrust Authority, handling prominent cases such as the Liquefied Petroleum Gas and flooring cartels. Iris also has experience as Director of Regulation in Israel for a multinational telecom company.
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Iris Achmon regularly acts for clients from a range of industries in high-value merger notification filings before the ICA and in disputes concerning completed transactions. She also represents clients in behavioural investigations and advises them on the competition law compliance of distribution agreements, including in relation to issues of parallel imports.
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"Iris Achmon has deep and comprehensive understanding of the Israeli competition law and regulations."
"Iris provides timely support and has a very strong knowledge of the detailed competition laws."
"Iris Achmon has deep and comprehensive understanding of the Israeli competition law and regulations."
"Iris provides timely support and has a very strong knowledge of the detailed competition laws."