Iris Achmon

Partner

Iris is a partner in Herzog Fox & Neeman’s Antitrust & Competition Department. She advises large entities, and multinationals in particular, on all aspects of Antitrust and Competition Law including complex mergers, restrictive arrangements, monopolies, the Food Law and Concentration Law, as well as compliance and the day-to-day conduct of companies with high exposure to antitrust and competition laws.
Iris has extensive experience in representing entities before the Israeli Competition Authority and the Competition Tribunal. Iris has handled various procedures such as administrative fines, declarations of breach, monopoly proclamations, exemption requests and pre-rulings; in a variety of sectors including hi-tech and telecom, bio and pharma, finance, transportation, energy, infrastructures, agriculture, food and retail.
Iris was employed with the Israeli Competition Authority for over 10 years, where she served as head of the legal department’s merger section and was, inter alia, in charge of the food and retail sectors. Prior to that, Iris served as a member of the criminal litigation team of the Israeli Antitrust Authority, handling prominent cases such as the Liquefied Petroleum Gas and flooring cartels.
Iris later worked at Tadmor and Co. as part of their Antitrust team, and advised prominent Israeli and international companies in multiple sectors and matters.
Iris also has experience as Director of Regulation in Israel for a multinational telecom company.

Contact Info

Tel: +9723-6925947 Fax: +9723-6966464 achmoni@herzoglaw.co.il V-card
Iris Achmon
  • Israel Bar Association, 2001
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LLB (magna cum laude), 2000
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem, BA (East-Asian Studies), (magna cum laude), 2000
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LLM (cum laude), 2005

Iris handled Israeli merger control for both parties of the Disney-21st Century Fox transaction. She also represented ChemChina in Israeli merger control aspects of its acquisition of Syngenta.
 
 

  • Ranked in Competition & Antitrust (Chambers Global 2024).
  • Recommended Lawyer in Competition/Antitrust (The Legal 500 2023).
  • Ranked in Competition & Antitrust (Chambers Global 2023).
  • Ranked as Recommended in the Competition 2022 category by Who's Who Legal.
  • Recommended Lawyer in Competition/Antitrust (The Legal 500 2022).
  • Ranked in Competition & Antitrust (Chambers Global 2022).
  • Ranked as Future Leader in the Competition 2021 category by Who's Who Legal.
  • Ranked in Competition & Antitrust (Chambers Global 2021).
  • Ranked as Future Leader in the Competition 2020 category by Who's Who Legal.
  • Ranked in Competition & Antitrust (Chambers Global 2020).
  • Ranked as Future Leader in the Competition 2019 category by Who's Who Legal.
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