 Our
firm is considered one of the leading offices in Israel in the
field of real estate, and accordingly the Real Estate Department
occupies a considerable portion of our activity. The Real Estate
Department engages in three main areas of activity: real estate
transactions, planning and construction and land taxation.
In the area of real estate, the firm specializes in accompanying
extensive projects, starting with the planning stage and leading
to the stage of registration of the apartment building, including
preparation of agreements with planning consultants (architect,
supervisor etc.), representation of contractors and entrepreneurs
before planning committees, tax authorities, the Israel Land
Administration, buyers, execution of complicated land transactions,
including combination and independent construction deals,
real estate tenders, management of administrative petitions
and so forth.
The firm handles many real estate projects across the entire
country, amongst which are dozens of projects in Tel Aviv
(a tower in Rothschild Blvd., a tower in Dizingof St., buildings
in the New Ramat Aviv Gimel, Kochav Hatsafon, Hagush Hagadol
in north Tel Aviv, Hayarkon St. etc.), Herzliya, a new neighborhood
in the prestigious Arsuf, Givat Shmuel, Eilat, Netanya, Carmiel,
Kiryat Shmona and more....
Within such framework, our firm represents leading contracting
companies and entrepreneurs in the market, in all aspects
of activity, such as owners of land and real estate assets,
commercial centers, land organizations and service providers
in such fields (architects, engineering planning companies
etc.).
Our firm maintains continuous, close contact with leading
service providers in the field of real estate, including:
architectural firms, engineering supervision companies, management
companies and more.
In recent years, our firm acquired unique expertise in the
field of investor groups and acquisition groups, representing
all factors and aspects pertaining to such activity, including:
process of relations between group members, accompaniment
of land purchase, including preparation of agreements and
handling negotiations for purchase, correspondence with executing
contractors and other service providers for the erection of
a building, leading to the level of delivery of right of possession
and registration in the group's name.
Together with the firm's real estate activity, which naturally
includes ongoing accompaniment in aspects of land taxation,
planning, and construction, associated with such activity,
our firm gained unique expertise in the area of planning and
construction, and is currently considered one of the leading
firms in Israel in the field.
Our firm has unique expertise in all aspects of planning
and construction accompanying real estate and other transactions,
including: representation before various planning institutions
(local and regional committees, professional committees, national
council, administration), before various appeal committees,
objections to various outline schemes, including management
of administrative petitions in such regard, changing the designation
of land, requisitions, procedures according to Chapter J of
the Planning and Construction Law and more.
Our firm has also acquired unique expertise in the field
of land taxation, which is expressed in all aspects of taxation
included in land transactions, as well as planning the optimal
tax structure for the transaction, representation of assesses
before various tax authorities, including objections and appeals,
handling various fees and levies (construction fees, betterment
levies, development levies) and more.
 Our
firm offers consultation and legal services to corporations
and individuals in all aspects connected to their business
activity, beginning with the stage of planning and establishment,
through preparation of all contractual and business cooperations
associated to their business activity, and up to ongoing accompaniment
of business activity. Our firm has experience and expertise
in the field of commercial law due to the numerous transactions
we handled for our clients, both in Israel and abroad.
As part of the activity of the firm's Commercial Department,
many commercial procedures are preformed, in Israel and abroad,
including the following: establishment of corporations and
joint ventures in Israel and abroad, mergers and acquisitions,
distribution agreements and licensing, cooperation agreements,
manufacturing agreements, company secretariats and more.
Among the clients of the firm's Commercial Department are
the Fishman Group, the Benny Steinmetz Group, the Eitani Group,
the English London & Regional Group, the American Berggruen
Group, A. Dori, Big - commercial centers, Kardan Real Estate,
Electra Real Estate, Polar Real Estate, Reit Israel, Yessodot
Yaniv and Yaniv Holdings, Superior Cables Ltd., Globus Group,
Carmel Carpets Group, NTT Technologic, Medijuice, Jack Yulzari
Transportation, Inbar-Merchav-Shaked Advertising Co. and others.
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Litigation
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Our firm's Litigation Department engages in litigation in
various fields (various court and tribunal appearances and
representation) in all legal instances. Amongst others, our
firm deals in litigation in all matters of civil and commercial
law, including, companies laws, real estate laws, law of titles,
contract and debit laws, tender laws, banking laws, administrative
law including administrative petitions, intellectual property,
labor laws, bills, execution and more.
Our firm has vast experience in handling complex commercial
disputes, while placing an emphasis on the needs and objectives
of the firm's clients, including representation in all legal
instances, including the Supreme Court and High Court of Justice.
As part of the firm's litigation activity, the firm takes
advantage of expertise and experience accrued by the attorneys,
including business and commercial experience, in order to
form an action strategy for representation of our clients.
Our firm works on creating a number of important legal rules,
amongst others in the field of tenders, planning and construction
and land taxation.
 Our
firm's International Department implements gathered experience
and knowledge and applies it on the activity of our clients
abroad. Our firm represents companies and individuals, both
Israelis and foreigners, in the activity abroad, in commercial
and real estate areas, with the assistance of the firm's extensions
in Kiev, Ukraine and Moscow, Russia. Moreover, our firm represents
foreign companies in their investment activity, including:
investments, joint ventures, acquisitions and more.
As part of representation of Israeli entities abroad, specifically
in East Europe, in areas pertaining to real estate investments,
our firm represents the largest companies in Israel: the Fishman
Group, the Steinmetz Group, Kardan, A. Dori, Polar Real Estate,
Electra Real Estate, assets and buildings from the Dankner
Group, the Yoram Gadish Group, the Avi Aranson Group, Big
- commercial centers, the Eitani Group and more. As part of
representation of foreign companies in investments in Russia
and the Ukraine, our firm represents the Helen Marlen Group,
the British LRP Group, local Ukrainian banks, international
banks, businessmen from the former U.S.S.R and more.
Alongside with the firm's extensions in the Ukraine and Russia,
our firm maintains local cooperations with leading law firms
in other Eastern European countries, such as: Firestone -
Dunkan, Baker-McKenzie and more.
Due to the fact that the firm has widespread connections
with foreign entities, our firm provides added value to our
clients by initiating cooperations between firm clients in
Israel and those abroad. For example, the firm introduced
an Israeli group with a local group for cooperation on the
largest and first logistic center in the Ukraine, connected
an Israeli fashion group with local partners, whose contribution
to the penetration of the Israeli group's product into the
Ukrainian and Russian market, was, and still is decisive etc.
The Attorneys in the International Department speak English
and Russian, enabling clients to speak with an Attorney in
their mother tongue.
Our office offers legal consultation and service in matters
of raising capital (primary and secondary distributions) and
continuing accompaniment for public companies, both in Israel
and abroad. As part of capital raising, our firm accompanies
the companies in choosing capital raising strategies, including:
the issue market and structure, due diligence, writing the
forecast and submission of documents of registration of securities,
whether in Israel or abroad.
As part of the continuous accompaniment offered by our firm
to pubic companies, our attorneys offer ongoing consultation
in many fields connected with the activity of public companies,
including: acquisition offers, private allocations, preparation
of financial reports, current reports to the authorities etc.
 In
recent years, with the recovery of the High-Tech market in
Israel and the world, and the accelerated development of the
Bio-Tech field, our firm has also acquired experience in this
area. We represent investors in this field, starting with
private projects (Angels), leading to institutional investors
(venture capital funds and other institutional bodies) as
well as companies and private inventors interested in raising
funds.
Our firm accompanies the corporations and individuals beginning
with the point of conception of the idea and the project and
up to the prospective stage of public offering and/or the
Exit. As part of such accompaniment, our firm assists in constructing
the business strategy of the concept and project, incorporation
into the proper legal framework, various capital raisings
(starting with the Pre-Seeds stage, raising from venture capital
funds, up to raising from the public), protecting the intellectual
property of the project (copyright, trademarks and patents),
recruiting support of various authorities (chief scientist,
investments center and funds), agreements for use of the technology
(distribution, licensing, OEM) and more.
In recent years, our firm has accumulated unique expertise
in the field of Bio-Tech, and specifically in seed companies.
As part of such activity, our firm accompanies a number of
seed companies, including registration of developers' rights,
marketing agreements in Israel and abroad and more.
Our firm's Sports Department is one of the leading departments
in its field in Israel. Our firm handles athletes, sport teams
and various agents connected to sports, such as: football
teams (including the Maccabi Netanya football club), coaches,
sponsors, agents and commercial companies.
Our firm accompanies the sports field in all aspects of current
activity, as well as representation in the legal instances,
including courts of law, arbitrations, disciplinary courts
and more. Among issues handled by our Sports Departments are:
representation of sport teams and athletes in contracts, sponsorship
agreements, advertising agreements, representation of sport
teams and investors in negotiations for acquisition and sale
of sport clubs, insuring athletes and more.
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