The Legal 500 EMEA: Local Litigation & Arbitration
Ram Pardes is a partner in the Tel-Aviv office of Naschitz Brandes Amir, where he specializes in complex, high-stakes legal proceedings. Ram has extensive experience in civil litigation, local and international arbitration, class actions, administrative law, insurance law, and political parties law.
Ram is used to acting in high-end, intricate domestic and cross-border litigation, including some of the largest disputes the firm is handling now. Ram also frequently provides legal counsel, pro-bono, to non-profit organizations.
During his legal studies, Ram served as an editor of the IDC Law Review, teaching assistant to Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, and participated in “Halev”, a non-profit organization aimed to provide basic legal assistance for low-income individuals and other disenfranchised groups as the coordinator of its activities at the Tel-Aviv Labor Court.
Ram is ranked as a “Rising Star” and as a recommended lawyer by Legal 500 and is described by clients as “super brilliant, experienced, and supportive to his clients”, “highly commercial and thinks on his feet”, “very responsive, intelligent, pleasant to work with”.
- Successfully represented Alfa Duty-Free Sàrl on an ICC arbitration in excess of US$360 million involving allegations of collusion in a public tender, fraud, and breach of competition law.
- Representing one of the largest construction and civil engineering companies in Israel in an ICC arbitration in a dispute arising out of delays in the construction of a power plant in Israel.
- Representing Iveco in defending a certification of a class action with respect to alleged participation, together with Scania AB, MAN, Renault, Volvo, Daimler, and DAF, in a global cartel for fixing truck prices.
- Successfully represented Harel Insurance in an administrative petition regarding a tender published by NTA for the insurance of the light rail infrastructure and systems.
- Representing Chevron in a claim brought by Haifa Port alleging entitlement to multi-million USD fees following the establishment of the “Leviathan” natural gas production platform.
- Advising a major international manufacturer with regard to a circa US$ 32 million international arbitration.
- Successfully representing a corporate client in the defense industry on an ICC arbitration relating to breach of contract in the sum of multi-million USD.
- Advising and representing various companies in complicated shareholder disputes.
- Advising and representing various insurers in D&O insurance cases.
- Representing various companies in consumer and insurance class actions.
LL.B. (magna cum laude), The Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (2012)
B.A. (magna cum laude), Business Administration (Finance), The Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (2012)
Summer School on European Business Law, Center for Business and Corporate Law, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (2011)
Israel (2013)
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