AB Anat Biran Law Offices

Anat Biran, Law Offices is one of Israel’s leading and most respected law firms in the fields of planning, construction, and real estate issues, and is considered among Israel’s top five boutique-sized law firms. Advocate Anat Biran founded the Firm in 2009, and it now deals with planning, construction, real estate, environmental quality, administrative, and municipal law issues. Advocate Anat Biran and her team are involved in hundreds of projects, as well as complex and unique legal issues. The Firm’s client list includes entrepreneurs, residents, and tenants in urban renewal projects, landowners, construction companies, public, governmental, and municipal authorities, all receiving personal and professional service. The Firm stresses constant professional development, teamwork, creative thinking, and superb interpersonal skills.

Practice Fields

Planning Procedures Support (Advancing Zoning Plans) - Our firm specializes in guiding planning processes to enhance property value and advance projects of all types and scales, including complex urban renewal plans. We assist in navigating the intricate zoning plan approval process, from the initial stages to final approval by planning authorities. This includes drafting and reviewing planning documents, handling objections, representing clients before local, regional, and national planning committees, and litigating in all judicial instances. As part of land value enhancement procedures, we also handle sales and combination transactions to facilitate property value realization.

Representation of Objectors – Private Individuals and Resident Groups - The right to object to plans, zoning relaxations, and deviations is an opportunity for the public to express its stance on deposited plans and permit requests that deviate from approved zoning. Exercising this right can influence planning decisions, the environment, quality of life, and property values. Our firm has extensive experience managing objections, representing both individuals and resident groups opposing large-scale projects that significantly impact their surroundings. We handle objections to comprehensive master plans, national and regional infrastructure projects—such as metro system plans—as well as smaller-scale zoning changes.

Legal Assistance in Building Permits, Zoning Relaxations, and Deviations – For Both Applicants and Objectors - Our firm provides comprehensive legal support for the licensing process, from obtaining initial information from local planning committees to consulting in the permit applications, issuing legal opinions, and representing clients in objections and appeals. We advocate before zoning appeal committees, and other relevant planning institutions, as well as administrative petitions. Additionally, we handle criminal and administrative proceedings related to unauthorized construction or land use.

Real Estate Transactions, Urban Renewal, and TAMA 38 - We represent numerous clients in real estate transactions and urban renewal projects, including TAMA 38 and evacuation-reconstruction (Pinui-Binui). Our firm provides both contractual legal support and guidance through the planning and licensing stages. We assist in all project phases—from securing landowner consent and representing clients in planning institutions to obtain approvals and executing projects. Our firm also offers close support to tenants and neighborhood representatives initiating urban renewal projects, helping them find developers, negotiate agreements, and oversee the process until they receive their new apartments.

Betterment Levies - Handling betterment levies requires both legal and appraisal expertise. The legal aspect is crucial from the early stages of drafting the plan or zoning relaxation that later triggers the levy. Our firm has extensive experience managing complex betterment levy cases, representing both private taxpayers and developers in proceedings before appraisers, appeal committees, and courts. We advise on the optimal legal course (appraisal or appeal), clarify exemption clauses, and collaborate with real estate appraisers in all legal proceedings. We handle numerous preservation cases, betterment levies for Tel Aviv zoning plans, and complex levy issues in rental housing and affordable housing projects.

Representation in Compensation Claims for Expropriation and Property Devaluation - Compensation claims for property devaluation due to an approved harmful plan or expropriation require both legal and appraisal expertise. The firm represents land and property owners in compensation claims against NTA (Metropolitan Mass Transit System) for expropriations and depreciation in value related to the Metro plans, as well as claims concerning the Tel Aviv preservation plan and other national infrastructure projects. It also represents companies in defending against compensation claims filed against them.

Anat Biran (Rekem) - Professional Landmarks

Adv. Anat Biran is one of Israel’s leading and most prominent advocates in the field of planning, construction and real estate law. After qualifying in 1988, she has filled many positions that have given her professional experience and knowledge in the field of planning, construction and real estate. In 1996, Adv. Biran was the first to be appointed Chair of the Tel Aviv District’s Planning and Construction Appeals Committee. She served for 7 years, crafting and formulating the nature of the Appeals Committee and its work procedures and made thousands of professional decisions. Since then, she has held a series of positions that have provided her with extensive professional experience and in-depth knowledge in the fields of planning, construction, and real estate. Attorney Anat Biran, in collaboration with the G-City Real Estate Research Institute at Reichman University, initiated and led an annual series of meetings on various regulatory topics in the fields of planning, construction, and real estate. She teaches planning and construction law at the Faculty of Law at Reichman University, lectures in the real estate master’s degree program, and regularly gives lectures in professional courses and training programs for the Israel Bar Association, the Chamber of Real Estate Appraisers, NITE, the Israeli Construction Center, the Real Estate Center, Magdilim, Lahav, banks, construction companies, and various governmental and commercial institutions. In 2003 she joined Yegnes, Toister, Biran & Co., as Senior Partner, and left 6 years later to establish her own firm. The many positions assumed by Adv. Biran in both the public and private sectors have earned her extensive experience in case management and planning procedures. Adv. Biran has a broad, thorough, and extensive understanding of the real estate world and its legal, economic and planning aspects, which are all reflected in the work of her firm. Since graduating, Adv. Biran has filled a number of positions, including in 1988-1995 as external legal counsel for the Hod Ha’Sharon Municipality and the “Hadarim” Local Planning and Construction Committee; Legal Counsel on behalf of the Minister of the Interior regarding acoustic protection under the National Outline Plan 2/4; Planning Investigator on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior; Professional Liaison on behalf of the Israel Bar Association regarding TAMA 38, at its Steering Committee; Chair of the Planning and Building Committee of the Tel Aviv District Committee of the Israel Bar Association, among other roles.