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Law Firms - Taxation Law
Yair Benjamini Law Offices
Yair Benjamini Law Offices is a leading
boutique firm with a proven reputation
in the taxation sector, rendering a holistic,
thorough and professional package of solutions for
all tax issues including tax litigation, tax planning,
options taxation, and routine advice on income tax,
VAT and real estate tax law, and foreign taxation.
The firm was established in 2015 by Yair Benja-
mini, one of Israel’s best known tax lawyers with
extensive knowhow, skill and rich experience in his
fields of activity. The firm’s services include routine
support, investment planning, representing foreign
companies, managing assessment procedures,
and representation before the tax authorities,
implementing voluntary disclosure procedures
on unreported assets, advice and submitting tax
opinions, etc. The firm operates a special depart-
ment providing legal support services, real estate
taxation consultancy and planning for real estate
development and urban renewal for contractors,
developers, and landowners.
The firm renders services to leading international
companies including HP, Facebook, Apple, Google,
and others, corporations, high-tech companies,
entrepreneurs, commercial companies, and indi-
viduals. Yair Benjamini Law Offices is well known
in its field, chosen as the local professional partner
by leading law and accounting firms worldwide,
as well as an experienced firm that presents its
expertise on the tax issues on the agenda, at con-
ferences, and in the media.
Practice Areas
Foreign Companies Operating in Israel: Yair Ben-
jamini Law Offices is a professional address for
foreign companies operating in Israel. The firm
provides themwith consultancy services for choos-
ing optimal operations structures, examining and
drafting agreements, and coordinatingmatterswith
suppliers. The firm’s clients include, finance, high-
tech, infrastructures and services companies.
Investment Planning Outside Israel: The firm sup-
ports Israeli companies in planning the structure
of operations abroad with the crucial significant
influence being tax considerations. In partnership
with the client’s accountants and commercial law-
yers, the firm’s team helps reduce the tax liability
in Israel and abroad by choosing the optimal array
of companies and agreements. This service is ren-
dered to financial and high-tech companies, funds,
investment bodies, and companies investing in
foreign securities.
Mergers & Acquisitions (M&As): The firm renders
tax consultancy services in a range of tax aspects
fromboth sides of M&A deals, to reduce the tax lia-
bility as far as possible. The firm’s team is involved
from planning the deal, obtaining prior approval
from the tax authorities, preparing due diligence,
conducting negotiations, drafting agreements,
conducting reporting andmanaging arrangements
after closing the deal with the tax authorities.
Options Taxation and Employees Grants: The core
activities in the firm focus on advising leading inter-
national companies regarding remuneration plans
based on shares offered to employees in Israel. Yair
Benjamini is a member of Global Equity Organiza-
tion for capital remuneration and is experienced
in lecturing before the organization’s members at
international professional conferences.
Real Estate Taxation: The firm’s Real Estate Taxa-
tion Department ismanaged by Adv. Sagiv Ron, one
of Israel’s most skilled lawyers in real estate taxa-
tion. The Department’s services start fromplanning
the deal structure and the tax derived, managing
filing applications and receiving prior approval
from the tax authorities, preparing agreements,
managing assessment proceedings with the real
estate tax authorities, real estate tax litigation, and
conducting appeals. Services include managing
sale and combination deals, purchasing groups,
trusts, managing building rights, luxury projects
etc. and are offered to developers, and contractors
companies in a range of projects, and in urban
renewal projects.
Private Clients: The firm offers its services to the
public, private clients and family firms mainly for
tax planning, planning and maintaining personal
capital holdings structures for Israeli and interna-
tional clients and high net worth families.
The Firm’s Team
Yair Benjamini Founding Partner: LL.B. Tel Aviv Uni-
versity (cum laude). Member of the Israel Bar since
2001. Formerly served as a clerk in Tel Aviv District
Court tax Judge Bracha Ophir-Tom’s office. He was
Tax Partner at Yigal Arnon&Co. and TaxDepartment
Head Epstein, Rosenblum Maoz (ERM). Expert in
corporate and individual tax, options taxation and
managing voluntary disclosure proceedingsmainly
on foreign accounts and serves as legal advisor
to clients of large Israeli accounting firms. Has
achieved an impressive number of precedents in
tax law in Israeli law. Sought after lecturer in many
professional forums.
Sagiv Ron Partner and Head of Real Estate Taxa-
tion: LL.B. B.A. Economics, Tel Aviv University
(2003). Member of the Israel Bar (2004). Expertise
in real estate tax, VAT and income tax and the Law
for the Encouragement of Capital Investment. Mem-
ber of various Israel Bar Tax Committees, academic
assistant on tax courses, Accounting Unit, Ono
Academic College. Formerly served as Tax Section
Manager at Erdinast Ben-Nathan and a lawyer in
the Tax Dept. of accountants KPMGSomekh-Haikin
and Associate in the Tax Dept. of Fischer Behar
Chen Well Orion & Co.
Sarah Leevan-Maman, Associate: Licensed to prac-
tice law in Israel and New York. Formerly served
as a lawyer for the US Internal Revenue Service
(IRS), a founder of Epstein, RosenblumMaoz (ERM)
tax department. Specializes in international taxa-
tion, mainly in planning tax structures and reduc-
ing tax costs. Skilled in employee options tax, tax
covenants and tax deduction at source. Special
expertise in handling wealthy Israeli and foreign
individual clients on tax aspects of their assets,
trusts and investments.
Dolev Zorea, Associate: Specializes in tax litigation
before the district court and Supreme Court and
routine support for companies and individuals in
Israeli tax, VAT and international tax planning.
Hila Shamir, Associate: Adv. and CPA Hila Shamir
is engaged in company and individual tax in Israel
and abroad, tax litigation, employee options tax,
tax planning for multinationals etc. Formerly served
as Tax Director, Ness Technologies.
Esta b l is h ed
2015
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
Legal services in the taxation sector
13th Floor, 3 Daniel Frisch St.,
Tel Aviv 6473104
Tel: 972-3-7748888 ���
Fax: 972-3-7748889
Adv. Yair Benjamini
Founding Partner *
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