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    Amit, Pollak, Matalon & Co.

    APM House, 18 Raoul Wallenberg St.,
    Building D, 6th floor, Ramat Hachayal,
    Tel Aviv, 6971915, Israel

    101 Hebron Road
    Beit Hanatziv, Building B, 3rd Floor
    Jerusalem

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    Our Team

    Sharon Lubezky Hess

    "I am working on a few matters with Sharon Lubezky-Hess, who is one of the best lawyers in in class actions representing financial institutions and in derivative actions. She is a very thorough lawyer, with vast experience of the law and the courtroom. She goes the extra mile for her clients." - Legal 500, 2024 Edition.

    "Sharon Lubezky is very diligent and thorough, and a very good choice for banking class action defence cases." - Chambers, 2024 Edition.

    "Sharon Lubezky is an adept lawyer who demonstrates solid experience representing renowned financial institutions in class actions. She is also experienced in derivative actions and shareholder disputes." - Chambers, 2023 Edition.

    Adv Sharon Lubezky Hess is a partner at Amit, Pollak, Matalon & Co.

    Sharon is a seasoned litigator, focusing her practice on commercial litigation in general, and on class and derivative action in particular.

    Ms. Lubezky represents respondents in complex and major class actions. In the past year she has acted on behalf of all of the banks in Israel, including the country’s largest banking groups – Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot, Israel Discount Bank, First International Bank of Israel and Union Bank of Israel. These Class Actions cases were amongst the largest filed in the banking sector in the past years.

    Ms. Lubezky also represented various public companies, senior officers and stakeholders, in class and derivative action claims..Ms. Lubezky also represents respondents in consumer class actions, including the Paz Oil Company (Israel’s the largest fuels company).

    Ms. Lubezky holds an LL.B. (cum laude) from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an LL.M. in Commercial Law and Antitrust from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in collaboration with Leiden University, the Netherlands.

    Between 2005 and 2017, Ms. Lubezky led large litigation cases as a partner in Naschitz Brandes Amir, where she was the head of the firm’s banking litigation practice. In this capacity Ms. Lubezky represented all of Israel’s leading commercial banks in complex class actions, in addition to various public companies and officers in class and derivative action claims.

    Ms. Lubezky together with her team joined APM & Co. in January 2018, along with her class action practice which she currently leads at our firm.

    Admission:

    • Israeli Bar Association (1996)

    Education:

    • Hebrew University in Jerusalem, LL.B. (cum laude) (2005)
    • LL.M. in Commercial Law and Antitrust from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in collaboration with Leiden University, the Netherlands

    Languages:

    • Hebrew, English