Office Profile
The partnership was founded in the early ‘70s by Advs. Joshua Kramer, Yosef Shapira (in time the State Comptroller) and Michael Schneider. As of the early 2000s Adv. Ronen Weinberg, Adv. Aviv Behrendt, Adv. Sagi Tirosh, and Avd. Eliad Cohen have joined the partnership.
The firm provides legal services to numerous public and institutional clients throughout the country and operates from two main branches, in Jerusalem and in Beer Sheva.
Partners
Specializations
Litigation
Litigation
High Court of Justice, administrative courts, civil courts, labor courts, appeal committees, and special tribunals in all areas of practice.
Real estate and planning and building
Real estate and planning and building
Support of contract projects for the construction of residential units and commerce from land acquisition to the end of project marketing and its registration with the Land Registry Bureau.
Combination transactions, hotel transactions, development agreements, drafting contracts for complex transactions etc.
Support and representation of right holders and developers in urban renewal projects (evacuation and construction and National outline Plan (NOP 38.
Representation in planning and building committees, handling depreciation and expropriation compensation claims, appeals on land improvement, contentions on land value, land taxation.
Municipal law - water and sewage corporations, municipalities, urban companies, and economic companies
Municipal law - water and sewage corporations, municipalities, urban companies, and economic companies
Support of municipal entities - water and sewage corporations, municipalities, urban companies, and economic companies.
Municipal taxation - fees and levies in the area of water, sewage, canalization, and paving infrastructures, construction fee, municipal rate.
Draft of bylaws, representation in appeal sewage committees, the Municipal Rate Administration, and various appeal committees.
Insolvency
Insolvency
Company recovery, asset freeze, and creditor compositions, liquidations and receiverships. Office holders on behalf of the court / Official Receiver.
Administrative law and contract law
Administrative law and contract law
Regulation, legislation.
Consultation on tenders to tender committees of various public entities and government ministries.
Holding of complex tenders, including P.P.P tenders (B.O.T, P.F.I) and framework tenders.
Contract law, charges and commercial law
Contract law, charges and commercial law
Drafting complex commercial agreements.
Environment, energy and infrastructures
Environment, energy and infrastructures
Renewable energy, wastewater treatment, and waste disposal.
Green legislation, violations of environmental quality laws. The firm has previously served as prosecutor of the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
Corporate law, cooperative societies, NGOs and NPOs
Corporate law, cooperative societies, NGOs and NPOs
Founding corporations and partnerships, support of listed companies, support of private companies, NGOs and NPOs. Support of kibbutzim and moshavim (cooperative settlements).
Labor law
Labor law
Handling labor unions, monitoring negotiations for signing collective agreements, and representation in collective disputes.
Torts
Torts
Defamation, insurance, and medical malpractice.
Sports law
Sports law
Representation of teams and players, litigation at the Football Association institutions etc. The firm has served for more than a decade as legal advisor to the Israeli Basketball Association and provided legal consultation to football and basketball teams.
Personal status and matrimonial law
Personal status and matrimonial law
Inheritances, wills, estates, guardianship etc.