Practice Areas

Trust and Corporate Structuring

The firm has taken its place in the international professional community engaged in this specialized area. This division, managed by Shira Shine, offers clients not only the drafting of intricate Family Settlements, including international tax and estate planning, but also the availability of its own licensed foreign Trust Companies, as well as a range of private investment bank facilities through the banking institutions it accesses.

International Tax and Estate Planning

The firm provides both private and corporate clients with international tax planning and private asset protection as well as estate planning, collaborating with a full network of foreign tax counsel correspondents, mainly through the firm’s membership in the International Tax Planning Association. Three leading tax experts serve the firm as full time in-house consultants, specializing in local tax litigation and tax planning as well as obtaining "pre-rulings".
The Firm also has a strong focus on advising both local and foreign families as well as foreign trust companies on all aspects of the taxation and reporting obligations of trusts in Israel. Additionally the firm actively advises new immigrants and returning residents to Israel.

Real Estate

The firm handles the fullest range of foreign and local private client Israeli real estate acquisitions and disposals, including corporate and tax treaty structures. It specialises in domestic and commercial land acquisitions through the medium of corporate trust structures, relating the same particularly to its multi-national non-Israeli cliental. It actively represents clients before the competent Planning Authorities as well as the competent tax office at all levels and instances.

Banking and Finance

The firm represents foreign banks and financial institutions, advising on various aspects of international banking procedures and issuing legal opinions.

Succession and Inheritance

This Department specializes in drafting and advising clients on their international wills, coordinating with foreign counsel with respect to specific jurisdictions, drafting local and international wills and probating foreign wills in Israel and the administration of estates of deceased foreigners, both testate and intestate. In-house expert evidence is provided to the courts on English and South African Succession Law.

Mergers and Acquisitions

The firm represents major law firms worldwide and handles their key M&A situations involving an Israeli element and direct client situations in this area. The firm has authored the "Israeli Chapter" in many leading law journals in this field.

Litigation

The firm handles a wide range of commercial, real estate, corporate and administrative litigation. The firm has extensive expertise in complex cases, cross-border disputes and international recoveries.