Bach, Lederman & Co.

Bach, Lederman & Co. is a leading
boutique law firm that practices commercial litigation, class actions and derivative actions. The firm, which was founded in 2006, is at the forefront of its practice areas. As a result, it has been ranked for more than a decade consecutively at the highest ranking levels in the practice areas of civil commercial litigation and class actions by the ranking companies D&B and BDI, in the categories of Elite Firms and Tier 1. In the current year, the firm was also selected as a leading firm by Chambers & Partners in the field of class actions. The firm represents and leads complex legal struggles and achieves groundbreaking successes and notable and significant achievements. Important precedents were set in the framework of the legal cases where the firm represented over the years. Furthermore, the firm actively participated in legislation proceedings in the Knesset in various areas, including: class actions, environmental protection, and the rights of the widows and orphans of the IDF.
The firm carefully filters the cases that it chooses to represent. The commercial litigation cases where the firm is involved, are high profile cases of
complex litigation, with significant financial scopes. The firm’s operations also significantly emphasize class and derivative actions, in a variety of fields including insurance, banking, consumer
protection, warranties of defective products,
securities, environmental protection, animal rights’ protection, competition law and antitrust and more.
Advocates Michael Bach and Ron Lederman taught several courses on class actions in academic law faculties and guided law students in this field. In addition, the firm handles control struggles in
companies and organizations, liquidations of
companies and insolvency law and public law
proceedings before the Supreme Court sitting as high court of Justice.
Among the firm’s clients over the years are industry, commerce and utility companies, banks, local authorities, high tech companies, public organizations, construction and fuel companies, and private individuals from Israel and abroad. The firm cooperates with law firms from Europe and the US, as to enable it to legally assist, counsel and represent both Israeli clients abroad and foreign clients in Israel.
The Partners, Adv. Michael Bach and Adv. Ron
Lederman, started their career in large law firms with a commercial orientation. The multidisciplinary experience and knowledge that they have accumulated over the years, enable them to accurately
analyze the success chances of the cases that the firm chooses to represent. In the field of Class Actions, the firm cherry picks cases that serve important public goals. The vast experience of
Advocates Bach and Lederman, as well as the broad legal understanding that they and the firm’s team possess, in combination with long standing determination and professional excellence, attention to the finest details, and creative out of the box thinking, are expressed in the firm’s noteworthy achievements, from which its clients and the public that they represent benefit.
Due to the nature of the cases that the firm handles and their extensive financial scopes, many of them are “long distance runs” where the counterparties, which are usually represented by Israel’s largest law firms, invest their best resources and efforts in order to handle the proceedings. In order to navigate such cases successfully, the firm’s team invests a lot of thought and maximal attention in every case. Over the years, the firm has led dozens of successful class actions, achieving the public benefits that amounted to hundreds of millions NIS, in a variety of fields.
Some of the firm’s achievements in class action proceedings over the past few years include: Winning in the application for certifying a class action in the sum of 5B NIS against the IEC in the District Court and the Supreme Court on behalf of all of the population of Israel; Winning a class action against leading insurance companies for all types of policies that they market, on the grounds of their policy not to add interest to the insurance payments; Winning a class certification application against the German Volkswagen Corp. and Champion Motors due to the “Diesel Gate Affair”, one of the most significant fraud affairs in the history of the automobile industry; Winning a class certification application against two large factories of ICL Group with regard to the contamination of the Ein Boqek natural reserve; Winning a class certification application against Hot, which lead to a compromise agreement in which Hot will compensate the class in an amount of Million NIS 153; A settlement with a car manufacturer and the importer due to a defect in the timing belts of the class vehicles, at the sum of dozens of millions NIS; A settlement with a car manufacturer and the importer due to a safety defect in the class vehicles’ clutch pedal, which risked the lives of the car owners; A settlement with one of the largest banks due to forbidden charges on securities trading, under which the bank committed to return more than 10M NIS to the public; A settlement with one of Israel’s largest telecommunication companies for a faulty service that it provided in the field of internet and offensive content filtering, under which the company committed to return 12M NIS to the public; A settlement in a class action due to antitrust violations with regard to the bakeries cartel, under which the defendants committed to return 12M NIS to the public;; Winning several class certification applications against cellular companies in the context of charging their customers without receiving their consent; Winning a class action against the Israeli Postal Company due to excessive tariff that was imposed on the public; A settlement with a car manufacturer and importer for a serial safety defect in the car’s suspension system that caused wheel detachment during driving under which the safety defect was addresses, and more.

The Partners

Adv. Michael Bach Was admitted to the Israel Bar Association in 1994; Has an LL.B. from Tel Aviv University (1993), and an LL.M. with “Commercial Law” specialization from Tel Aviv University (1998). Adv. Bach has vast litigation experience in all civilcommercial law fields with a particular specialization in class actions, derivative actions and struggle of control between shareholders in the areas of insolvency and companies’ liquidations and in public law litigation. Adv. Bach also serves as a mediator, arbitrator and notary, and served as a presiding judge in the disciplinary court of the Israeli Bar Association Tel Aviv’s District. Adv. Bach lectures on civil commercial law and class actions in various forums and academic institutes.
Adv. Ron Lederman Was admitted to the Israel Bar Association in 2007; has an LL.B. (cum laude) from Tel Aviv University, 2006 and a B.A., Economics from Tel Aviv University. Adv. Lederman has longstanding professional experience in litigation in all civil commercial law fields with a particular specialization in class and derivative actions and banking. Adv. Lederman lectures on class actions in various forums and academic institutes.