Michal Halperin

Michal Halperin is the head of Meitar’s Antitrust Group, and has extensive experience in both the criminal and civil aspects of antitrust law. Michal advises on complex mergers, monopoly cases, cartel cases and restrictive arrangement cases.

Michal is ranked as a leading antitrust practitioner in PLC Which lawyer? 2010 Yearbook under “Competition/Antitrust”.

Between 2002 and 2006 Michal served as the General Counsel of the Israel Antitrust Authority (IAA), where she headed a team of 25 attorneys and interns. In her position as chief legal counsel of the IAA, Michal was responsible for the prosecution of antitrust charges brought by the State of Israel. As part of her responsibilities at the IAA, Michal also handled all mergers that presented competition issues and was in charge of the enforcement of antitrust law against monopolies. Michal represented the IAA before the Supreme Court and the Antitrust Tribunal in complex litigation cases. Michal represented the IAA in the OECD and in the ICN – International Competition Network.

Prior to her work in the IAA, Michal was a partner in another Tel Aviv law firm and was a legal advisor to Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovski and Popeo PC in Boston.

Representative experience:

• Representation of some of Israel's leading companies on numerous compliance issues regarding antitrust and competition law. 
• Representation of leading multinational companies on different issues of local antitrust law.
• Representation of Deutsche Post regarding antitrust aspects of the acquisition of Flying Cargo.
• Representation of S&P regarding antitrust aspects of the acquisition of Maalot, Israel's leading provider of independent credit ratings.
• Representation of Hewlett-Packard regarding Israeli merger clearance of the acquisition of NUR Macroprinters Ltd.
• Representation of Hewlett-Packard regarding antitrust aspects of the acquisition of EDS.
• Representation of Fiat and Chrysler regarding antitrust aspects of the acquisition of Chrysler by Fiat.
• Representation of Wind River regarding antitrust aspects of its acquisition by Intel.
• Representation of Applied Materials regarding antitrust aspects of the acquisition of the intellectual property on Negevtech.
• Representation of Vector Capital in the antitrust aspects of the acquisition of Aladdin.
• Representation of Mega Sport regarding the antitrust aspects of the acquisition of Mega Sport – a sport equipment and clothing chain - by a competing chain.
• Representation of Mikal, the holding company of Soltam, in the antitrust clearance of the  acquisition of Mikal by Elbit Systems.
• Representation of Excellence regarding antitrust aspects of its acquisition by Phoenix
• Representation of Home Center, the leading DIY and HI chain, in an appeal to the Antitrust Tribunal regarding the merger of ACE and Rozenfeld – two competing chains.
• Representation of United Media, as well as Shalmor Avnon Amichay and Reuveni Pridan regarding their joint venture for joint acquisition of media and filing an application for the approval of a restrictive arrangement to the Antitrust Tribunal.
• Representation of ORL (BAZAN) in the merger of ORL (BAZAN) and Israel Petrochemical Enterprises and in the merger of ORL (BAZAN) and Carmel Olefins.
• Representation of a leading security firm in developing an internal antitrust compliance program.