Michael Shine & Partners, is a leader in Israel in international and local tax planning, multinational family asset protection and structuring and estate planning.

The firm advises an international private client base of high net worth individuals and families and caters for their overall legal services.

Since the firm has extensive expertise in forming and managing foreign trusts, it maintains several in-house licensed foreign Trust Companies, which solely service clients of the firm and as such maintain the highest due diligence and compliance standards. In addition, the firm offers a fully comprehensive group of service companies providing corporate directorships and corporate nominee and fiduciary services. Moreover, the firm maintains an extensive practice in the following areas: commercial law, real-estate transactions, commercial litigation, succession, investments and general foreign transactions and M&A’s.

The firm has received numerous awards including "Trust & Estates Law Firm of the Year in Israel" – Corporate Intl Magazine 2011 Awards, Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2011 - Tax Law Firm of the Year, Israel, Dun & Bradstreet leading 100 law firms since 2002 and many others.

The firm is boutique in size, with a dedicated team of attorneys. The firm’s staff is 32 and consists of 4 partners, 10 associates, 2 articled clerks, 3 financial managers, 3 compliance officers and three in-house tax consultants.