Practice
Corporate Formation and Corporate Lifecycle Management
We support business entities and non-profits from the formation stage, through their growth stages, reorganization or dissolution. Services include:
Formation and dissolution: Structuring corporations, drafting articles of association tailored to specific organizational goals, and managing processes leading up to termination or dissolution.
Corporate governance: Active participation and guidance of officers and directors in the corporation regarding the ongoing management of the corporation, including shareholders’ meetings, board meetings, and special subcommittee meetings.
Executive and executive advisory: Managing the appointment and selection processes of officers, directors, and senior employees, and providing ongoing legal advice regarding their fiduciary duties and regulatory and personal responsibilities in performing their duties.
Commercial transactions and advisory
We assist in the formation of and drafting of critical business agreements:
Contractual Architecture: Drafting, reviewing and negotiating complex commercial contracts, service agreements and customized legal instruments.
International Asset Management: Managing and protecting physical and financial corporate assets.
Strategic Negotiations: Legal advice and representation in commercial and other negotiations, serving the firm's clients.
Regulatory Compliance and Litigation
We serve as a strong interface between our clients and key state and financial entities:
Relationships with the authorities: Maintaining ongoing and direct contact with the Registrar of Companies, tax authorities, relevant government ministries
Strategic Legal Opinions: Writing comprehensive legal opinions and risk assessments.
Litigation: Representation of the firm's clients in all civil courts, specialized courts, arbitration and mediation.
Commercial & Corporations Law
We provide comprehensive legal advice to business corporations and non-profits and private entrepreneurs at the various stages of their activity. Our expertise is based on three main pillars:
Corporate Formation and Corporate Lifecycle Management
Commercial transactions and cross-border consulting
Regulatory Compliance and Litigation
Public & Administrative Law
The firm has extensive knowledge, rich experience and expertise in the fields of public law, administrative law and constitutional law in Israel, and serves as an advisor to government-supervised entities, local authorities, public figures and dual-entity corporations, at the intersection of state authority, legislative policy and civic duty.
Public Policy and Legislation
The firm participates in promoting legislation in the Knesset and defending the fundamental constitutional principles, the separation of powers, and the defense of the judicial system:
Legislative Promotion: Supporting and promoting legislative initiatives and regulatory reforms directly before the Knesset and its various committees.
Constitutional Counseling: Promoting and defending the fundamental constitutional principles of the State of Israel through strategic public policy initiatives.
Regulatory Updates and Reviews: Preparing comprehensive legal reviews, legal analyses, and practical regulatory briefings for clients in their ongoing activities and in special cases.
Regulatory Compliance, Audits, and Referrals to the State Comptroller
The firm provides proactive defense and strategic guidance to entities operating under state supervision:
Protection in Supervision and Audit Proceedings: Supporting clients in complex supervision proceedings, internal investigations, and audits on behalf of the state.
Proceedings before the State Comptroller: Providing legal advice to clients and representing them before the State Comptroller's Office.
Interface with government ministries: Maintaining ongoing contact with various government ministries, state authorities and regulatory bodies in the field of administrative compliance and in general.
Administrative litigation and petitions to the High Court of Justice
The firm offers leading legal representation in various civil courts at all levels, in various areas of civil law, with an emphasis on the areas of commercial law, administrative law and constitutional law, in courts of all instances, including petitions to the High Court of Justice (HCJ), administrative petitions and appearances before special civil tribunals, and representing clients in arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Civil & Administrative Litigation
The firm offers legal services in the field of civil and administrative litigation, for commercial corporations and non-profit organizations, public entities and private individuals in disputes in the field of civil and administrative law. Court appearances combine our main areas of expertise - including public and administrative law, real estate and procurement - with rich experience in appearing before courts at all levels.
Civil and Commercial Litigation
Court Representation: Representing plaintiffs and defendants before courts of all levels.
Appeal Representation: Representing clients in appeal proceedings, including applications for leave to appeal, against judgments and interim decisions.
Administrative Petitions and Tribunals
Administrative Petitions and Appeals: Representing petitioners and respondents in administrative petitions before the District Courts (sitting as administrative courts) and before the Supreme Court and in appeals against judgments and interim decisions in administrative proceedings.
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR): Mediation and Arbitration
Arbitration and Mediation Representation: Representing the firm's clients in arbitration and mediation proceedings.
Arbitration and Mediation: The firm's senior partners serve as qualified and experienced arbitrators and mediators in civil law disputes.
Strategic Establishment, Governance and Institutional Management
Establishment and Structure: Establishment and establishment of non-profit organizations and companies for the public benefit, drafting bylaws tailored to specific charitable purposes, and managing termination or dissolution processes when necessary.
Advice and guidance for officers, managers and functionaries: Providing ongoing legal advice to officers, managers and functionaries in the day-to-day management and crisis management of the organization, including accompanying the convening of the general meeting of members/shareholders, meetings of the executive committee/board of directors, meetings of the audit committee and other components of the organization, in order to ensure compliance with the provisions of the law and the obligations imposed on them towards the organization and towards the public
Institutional Protocols: Drafting internal ethical codes, regulatory compliance programs and operational legal mechanisms intended for the frameworks of non-profit organizations.
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Regulatory Compliance, Funding, and Relations with the Registrar of Associations
Compliance with the Registrar and Tax Authorities: Managing all ongoing interactions with the Registrar of Associations and Public Benefit Societies, tax authorities (including obtaining the status of a recognized institution under Section 46), and financial institutions.
Proper Management Approval: Handling the receipt of a proper management approval from the Registrar of Associations, which is essential for the organization's activities.
Public Allocations and Support Tests: Assisting organizations in submitting applications and receiving government support and financial allocations, while actively participating in the legal formulation of the state's support criteria and tests.
Global and Local Fundraising: Legal advice within the framework of fundraising campaigns, management of endowments, and agreements with donors.
Third Sector Legislation and Litigation Representation
Knesset Representation: Actively promoting, designing and reviewing legislative initiatives before the Knesset and its statutory committees to advance policies that benefit the third sector and civil society.
Strategic Litigation: Representing non-profit organizations before civil courts at all levels, including administrative courts and the Supreme Court (HCJ) in matters related to state budget funding, regulatory decisions and constitutional rights.
Non - Profit Organizations
The firm has been operating for years in representing and providing ongoing and occasional legal advice to non-profit organizations - associations and public benefit companies (PBCs) - in the field of the third sector in Israel, with an emphasis on deep commitment and support for organizations that lead social impact in the fields of education, nature and environmental protection, social welfare, and maintaining constitutional democracy. Legal services are based on three main pillars
Strategic establishment, governance and institutional management
Regulatory compliance, financing and relations with the Registrar of Associations
Representation in legislation and litigation of the third sector
Real Estate Transaction Support
The firm provides ongoing legal support throughout the stages of real estate acquisition, development, and sale, and provides clients with legally protected and structurally sound legal protection:
Transaction Support: Supporting clients throughout the life cycle of real estate transactions, both simple and complex, from due diligence, through the formulation of strategy and tactics, negotiation management, to closing the deal and registration of rights.
Real Estate Registration and Rights Arrangement: Handling complex registration of ownership rights, long-term leases, warning notices, real estate liens, and foreclosures at the Land Registry Office (Taboo).
Condominiums and Joint Ownership: Specializing in drafting and registering complex real estate partnership agreements and registering or amending condominium bylaws.
Real Estate Taxation and Regulatory Reviews
The firm deals with tax planning in the real estate sector, reducing exposure and complying with tax laws in Israel:
Real Estate Taxation: Effective tax planning in the field of real estate taxation.
Legal Reviews: Writing legal reviews and legal opinions for real estate projects.
Real Estate Litigation and Dispute Resolution
The firm provides legal representation in the courts to protect the proprietary, financial and other real estate interests of clients:
Court Representation: Representing plaintiffs and defendants in various civil courts.
Specialized Real Estate Tribunals: Protecting the interests of the firm's clients before various regulatory bodies, including the Land Registration Inspectorate, planning and building authorities and statutory appeal committees.
Possession and Use Claims: Handling sensitive claims involving eviction and removal from real estate, excessive or unauthorized use of real estate, and complex disputes in residential, commercial, service or other projects.
Real-Estate Law
The firm offers legal service in the field of real estate law, including real estate planning and taxation, based on rich experience, extensive knowledge and expertise, serving developers, financial institutions and private property owners, with an emphasis on three main areas:
Real estate transaction support
Real estate taxation and regulatory reviews
Real estate litigation and dispute resolution
Our diverse list of clients in the field of real estate includes:
Statutory and local authorities
Real estate companies, commercial developers and leading construction contractors.
Banking institutions and financial syndicates.
Private and commercial property owners and developers from Israel and abroad.
Tender Law
The firm has extensive knowledge, rich experience and expertise in the field of tender law and is one of the leading firms in the field in the State of Israel. In the context of its activity in the field of tenders, the firm provides end-to-end support both to tenderers - mainly in the public and municipal sectors - and to local and international bidders participating in complex competitive procedures. The firm's services are based on four main pillars:
Consulting for tender editors and public authorities
Strategic consulting for bidders and groups (Consortia)
Complex litigation in the field of tenders
Promotion of legislation and professional training
Our diverse list of clients in the procurement field includes:
Government offices, trust units and state institutions.
Statutory authorities, government and municipal corporations and public organizations.
Private entrepreneurs (Tier-1).
Consulting for tenderers and public authorities
Writing and structure: Planning and writing comprehensive tender documents, threshold conditions, evaluation criteria and contract templates for open, closed and multi-stage competitive procedures.
Tender committee support: Legal advice for tender committees including legal support of the bid screening process, obtaining clarifications from bidders, and the formal selection process.
Risk reduction: Preparing proactive legal reviews and writing formal legal opinions to prevent erroneous procurement decisions.
Strategic consulting for bidders and consortia
Bid preparation and strategy: Accompanying clients on the complex requirements of the tender, providing guidance for meeting threshold conditions and optimizing tender bid submissions to prevent disqualification.
Consulting and appearing before committees: Representing bidders in clarification hearings, administrative interviews and formal proceedings before public tender committees.
Complex litigation in the field of tenders
Administrative petitions: Representing clients in administrative petitions and urgent requests for temporary or interim orders.
Representation in appeal proceedings: Representing clients in appeals of judgments or interim decisions (including temporary and interim orders) before the Supreme Court.
Legislation promotion and professional training
Consulting and representation in the Knesset: Promoting, reviewing and leading amendments to legislation and regulations regarding tender laws before the Knesset and its committees.
Training of managers and academia: Providing training courses, lectures and legal seminars for senior managers, public figures and academic institutions in the field of tenders and public procurement.
