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S. Biran & Co., Law Firm
F ounded in the 1950s, S. Biran & Co. is
one of Israel’s senior leading law firms.
Founder Shraga Biran con-tinues to guide
the firm, joined by a diverse team of senior at-
torneys with extensive expertise in wide ranging
legal areas.
The S. Biran Credo
Maximum commitment to best fulfillment of the
client’s goals. The firm’s staff combines exten-
sive experi-ence and diverse knowledge, accu-
mulated in 50 years of activity, with creativity,
currentness and purpose-fulness. The services
provided by the firm are best suited to the client’s
unique goals, and are based upon a broad-based
long-term inter-disciplinary approach to their af-
fairs, while upholding the highest standards of
professionalism and excellence. The firm’s orga-
nizational culture is characterized by teamwork,
mutual as-sistance and cooperation between all
of the attorneys responsible for different legal
fields, in addition to personal and professional
nurturing.
Primary Fields of Expertise
The firm’s primary fields of expertise include real
estate, planning & building, commercial litiga-
tion and class actions, capital market, financing,
companies, mergers & acquisitions and energy.
S. Biran & Co. is Israel’s leader in the field of
real estate and planning & building. The firm
has expertise and years of experience in legal
consultation to real estate companies and real
estate transactions in Israel and abroad. The Firm
accompanies its clients through all facets and
stages related to real estate project promotion
and execution in Israel and abroad, including
planning, propriety, financing, business and fi-
nancial issues. The firm provides ongoing counsel
to Israel’s most large and prominent companies
and groups in all of their fields of interest and
business development.
Real Estate
S. Biran & Co. specializes in accompanying closely
and comprehensively real estate projects through
all of their facets and stages. This includes com-
prehensive legal counseling in the promotion, de-
velopment and execution of real estate projects in
Israel and abroad, rezoning, maximizing building
rights, betterment tax, and selling completed
projects. The firm has specific expertise in estab-
lishing and accompanying complex, large-scale
real estate projects such as residential neigh-
borhoods, employment centers, campuses and
com-mercial centers. The firm leads major urban
renewal projects in Israel, hundreds of thousands
of square me-ters of residential areas and offices
in Israel’s major cities.
The firm provides legal counseling concerning es-
tablishing the client’s property rights, preparing
a set of agreements with the relevant authorities.
The firm also provides all of the legal services at
the stage of pro-ject execution, including selling
agreements, rent agreements and registration
procedures. The firm accom-panies real estate
companies, in Israel and abroad, during all stages
of their transactions and development, including
the acquisition of new property, sale and rent
transactions, partnerships, property develop-
ment, etc.
Planning and Building
The firm has many years of experience in handling
planning and building matters in all aspects. This
includes advising the client at the phase of for-
mulating the optimal planning program, accom-
panying the forming of the planning documents
required by law, handling their submission to the
authorities, representing the client through the
whole planning procedure, including objections,
appeals, petitions. In addition, the firm special-
izes in litigating administrative petitions in mat-
ters of planning and building, submitting claims
according to s. 197 of the Planning and Building
law, defending against such claims and defending
clients in criminal proceedings according to the
Planning and Building law.
Commercial Litigation and Class Actions
S. Biran & Co. represents clients in wide-ranging
litigation matters, including commercial arbitra-
tion, peti-tions and administrative proceedings,
before all of Israel’s court instances. The firm’s
litigation department has extensive experience
in representing companies defending against
class actions in various issues includ-ing con-
sumer protections laws, corporate and securities
laws. The firm’s litigators firmly pursue creative
so-lutions to best achieve the client’s business
goals, while utilizing the firm’s knowledge, ex-
perience and ex-pertise.
Capital Market & Corporate
The firm provides comprehensive legal services
to public companies and to companies raising
capital. Among the firm’s clients are leading
public companies in Israel. The legal services
in this area include counseling and accompany-
ing private and public capitalization, preparing
securities prospectuses, advising reorganization
processes, ongoing counseling to publicly traded
companies, founder agreements and shareholder
agreements, benefit programs and general coun-
seling in Corporate Law.
Mergers & Acquisitions
The firm handles large-scale mergers and ac-
quisitions transactions in a wide range of areas,
including providing legal advice on financing,
due diligence, preparing agreements, regulatory
requests, and overseeing the implementation of
agreements.
Financing
The firm specializes in representing clients in
complex and innovative financing agreements
foreign bank financing for Israeli clients with
projects in Israel and abroad.
Energy
The firmhas extensive experience in providing legal
counsel for energy-related issues, particularly fuel
and gas. The firm represents fuel and gas compa-
nies and provides ongoing counsel relating a wide
range of issues of their activity and development.
Clientele
S. Biran & Co.’s clients include leading companies,
both public and private, in the fields of real estate,
retail, fuel and energy, alongside entrepreneurs
and private and institutional real estate holders.
Esta b l i s h e d
1959
L i n e o f B u s i n ess
Law Firm
4 Berkowitz St., Museum Tower,
Tel-Aviv 6423806
Tel: 972-3-7773939
Fax: 972-3-7773900
David Amid
Managing Partner *
Meir Porges
Senior Partner *
Efrat Karazi-Gough
Partner *
Shraga F. Biran
Founder of the firm
* See Top Executives Profiles - Page 582