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Law Firms - Private Clients, Trusteeship & Family Wealth Management
Michael Shine & Partners Advocates and Notaries
M ichael Shine & Partners is one of the
leading and most well established
law firms in Israel, in the Private Client
field, specializing in international tax planning, the
establishment and administration of trusts, trust
taxation and the appropriate reporting to the tax
authorities, multi-national asset protection, family
wealth preservation, and general legal counsel for
multi-national families.
Furthermore, the firmhas extensive practices in the
areas of commercial law, real estate (with a special-
ization in representing foreign residents), foreign
investments and transactions, and inheritance and
estate matters, where the main representation in
these areas is of foreign residents in Israel.
In addition to representing private clients from all
over the world, including high net worth individuals
and families, as well as family wealth funds, the
firm’s clients includemany international companies
and international financial institutions and foreign
trade risk insurers, as well as a large number of real
estate companies controlled by foreign residents
that hold commercial properties in Israel.
The firmhas won numerous awards and is regularly
rated, both in Israel and overseas, as a leading firm
in its main field of expertise of Private Client.
A number of years ago, the partners of the firm es-
tablished the company ‘M.S.A. Shine Global Family
Office Ltd.’, which hasmore than 20 employees, as
well as ‘Alphen Asset Management A.G.’, which is
situated in Zurich, Switzerland and which holds a
Swiss license for the management of investments
portfolios.
Partners
Michael Shine
A graduate of University College in London and a
member of the English bar, he founded the firm in
1977. Adv. Shine is a former member of the Amend-
ments Committee of the Companies Ordinance of
the Ministry of Justice, has an international repu-
tation in all matters of international tax planning,
planning and protection of multi-national family
asset holdings, trust law and the administration
of trusts. Moreover, Adv. Shine is an international
authority on international private banking and also
served as a member of the board of directors of a
number of foreign private banks.
Shira Shine
A graduate of the University of Manchester in Eng-
land (1997). Specializing, with an international
reputation, in the fields of multi-national family
asset protection, trust law, the establishment and
administration of trusts, international taxation, trust
taxation in accordance with Israeli tax rules, and
family wealth preservation and management, in-
cluding the drafting of documents for various family
structures including will trusts, and wills for assets
situated in various places of jurisdiction.
Serves as the Chairman of the Trusts Committee of
the Israel Bar Association She has published and
regularly publishes articles in leading journals in
Israel and around the world, on the subject of in-
ternational taxation, trust taxation and the use of
trusts as an instrument to protect family assets.
Adv. Shine is designated as an expert in interna-
tional taxation and trusts, in leading international
rankings.
Alon Shine
A graduate of the Interdisciplinary Center in Her-
zliya, holding two degrees, one in law (LL.B.) and
one in business (B.A.), specializing in finance. He
specializes in the field of multi-national family as-
set protection, trust law and administration, es-
tates and inheritance, international taxation and
financial investments. Adv. Alon Shine serves as
the financial and investment manager of the firm
and guides local and international real estate
transactions, start-up transactions and financial
investments, including hedge funds, venture capi-
tal funds, and the building of financial instruments
personally adapted for the firm’s clients (both local
and international).
Main Areas of Practice
International Tax and Estate Planning: The firm
has earned an international reputation amongst
the international professional community dealing
in this unique field, and operates as a “one stop
shop”, providing not only the complex planning of
family assets in the interest of asset protection and
family wealth preservation and the preparation of
documents for various legal structures, but in addi-
tion the firm has access to (in-house) foreign trust
companies, which are fully licensed and exclusively
and solely serve the clients of the firm. Furthermore,
together with the team of compliance officers, pro-
ficient in the opening of accounts, the global envi-
ronment of due diligence, and the various banking
regulations, the firmspecializes in the unique field
of providing exclusive private banking services for
the opening of accounts for various legal structures
in Israel and overseas, inter alia, through banking
institutions with whom the firm works.
The firm has extensive experience and knowledge
in providing tax advice and guidance to its clients,
and has recently been emphasizing tax planning
and advice to clients in all matters regarding trust
taxation in Israel and the accompanying reporting
to the tax authorities, as well as comprehensive
advice to returning residents and new immigrants
in all matters regarding trusts, tax exemptions and
any issue involved with these matters. In order to
complete the service for its clients, the firm has
enlisted into its service, a unique specialization in
“pre-rulings” for trusts, undertakings in accordance
with law for reporting in Israel, and voluntary dis-
closure proceedings.
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 specializes in domestic and
commercial land acquisitions through themedium
of corporate trust structures, relating the same par-
ticularly to its multi-national non-Israeli clientele.
Banking and Finance: The firm represents foreign
banks and financial institutions, advising on vari-
ous aspects of international banking procedures
and issuing legal opinions.
Succession and Inheritance: This Department spe-
cializes 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 foreignwills in
Israel and the administration of estates of deceased
foreigners, both testate and intestate.
Sea View Building, 11 Hasadnaot St.,
Herzlia Pituach, P.O.Box 2053, 4612001
Tel: 972-9-9531953
Fax: 972-9-9531954
L i ne o f b u s i n ess
Israel’s Premier Niche Practice, specializing in Private
Clients, Multinational Family Estate Structuring & Asset
Protection, Trusts and International & Local Taxation
Shira Shine
Senior Partner *
Alon Shine
Managing Partner *
Michael Shine
Founder & Senior
Partner *
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582