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Eitan, Mehulal & Sadot, Advocates & Patent Attorneys
Eitan, Mehulal &Sadot, Advocates & Patent
Attorneys provides legal consultancy ser-
vices to business clients from the private
and public sectors, including Israeli companies
operating in Israel and abroad, foreign companies
operating in Israel, international investors, banks
and a wide variety of industrial companies. The
firmwas established in 2011 by themerger of Eitan
Mehulal, established in 2005, with Sadot & Co.,
established in 1959. The firm is ranked by Israeli
and international ranking guides as outstanding
in its main areas of expertise. The firm applies
a unique interdisciplinary approach. The firm’s
employees are experts in a wide variety of fields,
proficient in many languages, and experienced at
understanding the unique needs of the various
businesses of the firm’s clients, in order to find
creative solutions to complex legal issues. This
multi-dimensional knowledge enables the firm to
offer personal, focused and professional service at
the highest standard in all practice areas. The firm’s
clients include leading international and Israeli
companies from banking, finance, government,
energy, infrastructure, hi-tech, communications,
manufacturing and retail and defense sectors.
Areas of Expertise
Commercial and Companies Law - The firm sup-
ports international and local companies in all their
business operations and is involved in the estab-
lishment of venture capital, private partnerships
and hedge funds. The firm has vast experience in
providing advice regardingmerger and acquisition
deals in Israel and overseas.
Capital Markets andSecurities - The firmsupports
international and local companies and underwrit-
ers in public offerings and the listing of securities
for trade on stock exchanges in Israel, the USA and
Europe. The firm assists the companies in meet-
ing their reporting obligations in Israel and abroad
and advises the boards of directors, including on
appropriate conduct in the complex regulation en-
vironment of securities law.
Taxation -The firmhas been involved in numerous
precedent setting rulings in recent years. The tax
departments handle Israeli and international tax is-
sues, including tax planning for international inves-
tors and representingmultinational companies and
private developers involved in business abroad,
represents clients in disputes concerning the
classification and valuation of goods for customs
purposes, and concerning the legality of imports,
including criminal proceedings.
Litigation - The firm represents international com-
panies and leading entities in the economy, in all
kinds of commercial proceedings before the courts,
arbitrators andmediators and judicial bodies. The
litigation department handles pecuniary actions,
contractual lawsuits, class actions, derivative ac-
tions, claims for commercial wrongs and claims for
injunctive relief. The firm has litigation expertise
in all the areas of its specialist practice, including
banking; labor law; liquidations, the enforcement
of real property and intellectual property rights in
Israel and abroad; taxes; anti-trust law, etc.
Intellectual Property - The intellectual property de-
partments in the firm specializes in the creation,
exploitation and enforcement of all types of intel-
lectual property; patents, designs, trademarks,
copyright, and trade secrets, as well as providing
advice regarding intellectual property rights, and
internet, privacy and data protection issues.
Technology Companies - The firm is one of the
country’s leading pioneers in the accompaniment
of high-tech companies in both commercial and
intellectual property fields in all their stages of
development, from seed to public offering.
Foreign Trade - The firm provides comprehensive
legal support in all aspects of foreign trade, includ-
ing in disputes with government agencies, com-
mercial disputes, international trade regulation
and trade levies.
Receivership and Liquidation - The firm handles
all the legal issues relating to companies in fi-
nancial distress; receivership and liquidation,
the suspension of proceedings, the acquisition of
companies in insolvency proceedings and ancillary
transactions.
Real Estate - The firm provides comprehensive
legal advice to companies and private entities in
all aspects of real estate, including complex sale
transactions, income-producing real estate trans-
actions, business properties, compensation for
expropriation, land taxation, registration of trans-
actions and rights, new land registrations, and
having condominium orders issued and recorded
in the Condominiums Register.
Government Tenders, Infrastructure Development
and Project Finance - The firm represents corpo-
rations, partnerships and consortia in many high
profile projects through the various stages of plan-
ning, finance and implementation, including public
utilities, teleprocessing, telecommunications and
energy.
Labor Law -The firmadvises employers and senior
employees in all matters relating to Israeli labor law
and collective agreements. The labor law experts
work in close cooperation with attorneys in the
other areas of the practice to address the clients’
broad needs.
Partners
Adv. Tally Eitan – Intellectual Property
Adv. Refael Liba – Litigation
Adv. Yaron Mehulal – Commercial Law and Taxes
Adv. Eitan Shmueli - Capital Markets and Com-
mercial Law
Adv. Nir Weissberger - Capital Markets and Com-
mercial Law
Adv. Sally Gillis – Intellectual Property
Adv. NoamWeiss – Real Estate
Adv. Ofer Cohen-Zedek – Litigation
Adv. Ehud Kronfeld – Indirect Taxation
Adv. Karen Reichbach-Segal – Liquidations and
Receiverships
Adv. Shirley Gal – Intellectual Property
Adv. Netta Shaked-Stadler – Commercial Law and
High Tech
Adv. Guy Hadar – Commercial Law and High Tech
Adv. Noa Lev Goldstein – Direct Taxation
Adv. Yohai Shelef – Litigation
Adv. Roey Gutman – Labor Law
Adv. Alon Rom – Commercial Law and High Tech
Pat. Atty. Heidi Brun – Intellectual Property
Adv. Alice Abramovich – Indirect Taxation
Adv. Aline Wekselman – Intellectual Property
Adv. Joel Vidal – Intellectual Property
Esta b l i s h e d
2011
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
Law firm
10 Abba Eban Blvd.,
P.O.B. 2081, Herzlia 4612002
Tel: 972-9-972-6000���
Fax: 972-9-972-6001
Refael Liba
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Eitan Shmueli
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Sally Gillis
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* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582