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Haim Zadok & Co.
Headquarters	Tel Aviv, Israel
No. of offices	1
No. of attorneys	26
Major practice areas	Commercial law
Key people	Ilan Shavit-Stricks, senior & managing partner
Date founded	1958
Founder	Haim Yosef Zadok
Website	www.zadok-law.com

Haim Zadok & Co. is a law firm in Tel Aviv, Israel, established by Haim Yosef Zadok. The firm specializes in corporate and commercial law; insolvency, recovery and corporate reorganization; banking; high-tech and venture capital; litigation; constitutional and regulatory law; and public and administrative law. Its expertise lies in complex corporate rehabilitations, receiverships, liquidations, and managing companies in difficulties.

The firm's 26 lawyers, trained in Israel and abroad, do public and pro-bono work, including representing UNICEF in Israel and supporting the University of Tel Aviv's law school scholarship fund.

History

Haim Zadok & Co. was founded in 1958 by Haim Yosef Zadok,^[1] a prominent lawyer and former Labor minister.^[2] Zadok served as Israel's Minister of Justice,^[3] Minister of Industry and Trade, and Minister of Religion. In 1993, he was elected president of the Israel Press Council.^[4]

In 1989, the firm, with its founder representing it, argued to the Knesset Economic Committee that cigarette advertising does not encourage young people to start smoking.^[5]^[6]

In 1990, the firm represented Bank Leumi in a dispute with its former chairman and CEO, Ernest Japhet. The bank sought NIS 15 million in compensation for unusually lucrative personal contracts that Japhet had signed with senior executives.^[7] In 2000 the firm was appointed by the courts to act as trustee for the sale of United Steel Mills.^[8]

In 2001 the firm represented Time, Inc. in the case of Sharon vs. Time Inc., in which Sharon contended that Time magazine libeled him in its 1983 cover story about the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre.^[9]^[10] In 2007 the firm represented Bank Hapoalim in litigation against Heftsiba, a bankrupt property developer.^[11]

Ilan Shavit-Stricks is Haim Zadok & Co.'s senior and managing partner. The firm's of counsel was Advocate Dan Meridor, a former Minister of Justice and Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy. It was announced in November 2009 that he and Shavit would face a disciplinary proceeding of the Israel Bar Association for writing an illegal fee contract with Arcadi Gaydamak.^[12]

References

^ Smith, Terence (March 7, 1974). "Mrs. Meir Forms Cabinet; Syrian Flare‐Up Doubted". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
^ Keren, Michael (1995). Professionals Against Populism: The Peres Government and Democracy. SUNY series in Israeli studies, p. 39, SUNY Press, ISBN 978-0-7914-2563-3, accessed November 25, 2009.
^ "Keesing's - World News Archive".
^ Cohen-Almagor, Raphael (2001). Speech, Media and Ethics: The Limits of Free Expression: Critical Studies On Freedom of Expression, Freedom of the Press and the Public's Right to Know. Palgrave Macmillan, accessed 25 November 2009.
^ Wallfish, Asher & Getzler, Dvorah (June 1, 1989). "Licence Penalty Suggested for Road Roulette Players, Jerusalem Post, accessed November 24, 2009
^ Siegel, Judy (July 19, 1995). "Smoking ban at work becomes permanent". Jerusalem Post, accessed November 24, 2009
^ Lipkis, Galit (December 23, 1990). "Leumi Seeking NIS 14M in Compensation from Japhet". The Jerusalem Post, accessed November 25, 2009.
^ OECD, "Developments in steelmaking capacity of non-OECD countries". OECD Publishing (2001) ISBN 978-92-64-08720-0
^ Kelly, James (June 24, 2001). "Of Meaning and Malice". Time. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012.
^ Kelly, James (January 28, 1985). "Press: Wrestling with Defamation and Truth". Time. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012.
^ Ruth, Nurit & Sheffer, Shlomi (November 9, 2007). "Hapoalim: Heftsiba is lying in its motion to halt legal steps". Haaretz. accessed November 24, 2009.
^ Sharvit, Noam (November 24, 2009). "Meridor faces ethics charges for Gaydamak role; Minister Dan Meridor charged Arcadi Gaydamak $600,000, plus a $5 million success bonus". Globes, accessed November 25, 2009

Published works

At the Law's Cradle, Haim Zadok, Israel Democracy Institute
The Relative Advantages of Banks in Israeli Legislation, Ilan Shavit-Stricks and Nitza Posner, Global Banking, 2004. An updated version of this article is available on-line.