Our Expertise
Real Estate Transactions
Our firm specializes in real estate transactions in Israel and abroad. Due to the complexity of real estate transactions in Israel and the need to handle every transaction vis-à-vis multiple authorities, our firm has developed expertise and networks of professional relationships. These allow our firm to manage transactions quickly and professionally while providing our clients with collateral, protection, and thorough examinations. Our firm specializes in all project types and stages, from project marketing to complex transactions with banking entrepreneurs and landowners. Over the years, our law firm has developed a specialty in complex cross-border transactions, while working closely with law firms and professionals in the countries where the transactions are executed.
Planning and building
due to the slow and heavily bureaucratic nature of land release processes in Israel, landowners require long-term accompaniment. This support requires great expertise and extensive connections to achieve optimal results for landowners and developers. For decades, our firm has accompanied thousands of landowners and numerous companies in land release development procedures vis-à-vis all statutory bodies. These include planning committees, appeal committees, the courts, planners, appraisers of repartition tables, etc. Our firm also accompanies many entrepreneurs, leading companies, and landowners in all planning and licensing proceedings, exhaustion of rights, and legal representation against objecting parties. As part of the planning and building process, our firm also deals with matters pertaining to improvement and development levies. Our firm has a wealth of experience in representing landowners and developers with respect to improvement levy requirements and determinant appraisals and in representing clients in appeals and before various instances.
Project financing
As part of accompanying numerous, complex, real estate transactions, we also assist our clients in financing the transactions. We accompany and support all classes of clients: entrepreneurs, landowners, and land buyers. Our firm is experienced in conducting negotiations with banking corporations and various financing entities. Our firm helps our clients conduct commercial negotiations with the financing bodies, by drawing on our wealth of experience in this field.
Realty Taxation
As part of accompanying real estate transactions, our firm has accumulated extensive knowledge in the field of real estate taxation, including sale and purchase transactions, combination transactions, construction services transactions, consideration transactions, various options, purchase groups, trusts, complex transactions, sales of development rights and other rights, including property associations. Our firm is capable of developing a comprehensive understanding of each transaction's various tax aspects, and the possibilities for tax planning and tax savings. Innovative solutions employed by our firm in various transactions saved our clients tens of millions of shekels. Our firm represents assessees before the tax authorities, both in tax appeals and in the courts.
Inheritance and estates
The field of inheritance encompass many issues that impact the process of inheritance and the transfer of ownership to the next generation. This field is forward-looking and requires a great deal of professionalism and experience. Our firm has prepared many estate plans, considering taxation, family, and business aspects. These estate plans are ultimately reflected in wills that have solved the testators' various needs by creating a proper equilibrium within the family, tax planning, and fostering effective family business continuity.
Real estate litigation
Our firm has many years of accumulated knowledge and experience in litigating real estate cases. Customer representation is not limited to appearance before the various courts; it also extends to planning and building committees and appeal committees, both in the field of planning and building and with respect to taxation and administrative petitions. Customer representation begins with an in-depth examination of the facts and the legal situation, continues with the strategy development, and culminates with successful appearances before the various bodies.
Trusts and foreign companies
Our firm specializes in providing advice to Israelis and foreign citizens in all matters related to the establishment and management of trusts, planning family asset holdings, protecting assets, and maintaining them. The firm can draw on a wealth of experience in planning and preserving family assets and passing them on from one generation to the next, especially within the framework of trusts but also in the field of inheritance. In this practice area, the firm maintains contacts with banks and financial institutions specializing in private banking, especially in matters concerning investments tailored to wealthy families.