Amir Steinhertz & co., Law Office & Notary

Experience, Strength, and Personal Guidance for Apartment Owners in Urban Renewal Projects
Since its establishment nearly two decades ago, Amir Steinhartz & Co. has played a leading role in Israel’s urban renewal sector and is consistently ranked among the country’s leading professional directories. The firm represents apartment owners exclusively and operates with a sole, independent commitment to protecting their rights and maximizing their benefits. As one of the pioneers of the field in Israel, the firm has successfully advised more than 400 complexes and projects nationwide and thousands of apartment owners, from the initial organization stage, through the selection of professional consultants, management of developer tenders, negotiations, planning, licensing, and financial oversight, all the way through construction and the successful delivery of apartments and retail units.
The firm has extensive experience in leading large-scale and highly complex projects throughout Israel. Alongside its professional strength, the firm maintains the character of a boutique practice, providing personal, approachable, and accessible service. Adv. Steinhartz is personally involved in every key decision and every major milestone, while apartment owners benefit from efficiency, transparency, high availability and responsiveness throughout the firm, attentive guidance, and determined negotiations aimed at securing the best possible benefits, guarantees, and protections. These principles, including adherence to timelines, review of plans, strict attention to securities, and ongoing support through occupancy and registration, form a central part of the firm’s working methods.
Advocate and Notary Amir Steinhartz, founder of the firm, is one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the representation of apartment owners in urban renewal projects. With more than two decades of experience, he has become a recognized authority in the field of apartment owner representation, with a strong emphasis on business, strategic, and commercial understanding, as well as providing solutions to complex issues involving taxation, commercial law, and planning.
Adv. Steinhartz is a sought-after lecturer in professional forums and has been among those involved in advancing and shaping significant legislative changes in the field. He is widely recognized for his personal commitment, accessibility, creativity, and ability to advance complex projects with determination and efficiency through to their successful realization.
Experience That Shortens the Path
The firm possesses deep professional familiarity with the urban renewal sector, the sector’s principal players, and the working methods of local authorities, urban renewal administrations, local and district planning committees, financing entities, and planning institutions. The firm also works regularly with developers, architects, appraisers, supervisors, consultants, banks, and financing bodies.
The firm’s extensive and accumulated experience enables it to identify legal, planning, and economic obstacles at the earliest stages of a project, act to remove them, and formulate a practical strategy tailored to the policies of the relevant authority and the specific characteristics of the project or complex.

A Unique Methodology for Advancing Projects

The firm’s work is based on a methodology developed over many years and implemented in hundreds of projects. Under this approach, a project is not treated simply as the drafting of an agreement, but as a comprehensive undertaking that requires strategic management, continuous oversight, and an integrated legal, planning, economic, and commercial perspective.

Exclusive Representation of Apartment Owners

Apartment owners are at the center of the firm’s activity. The firm is committed exclusively to representing apartment owners and does not represent developers or contractors. This approach places the owners’ security and interests at the forefront and enables the firm to operate without conflicts of interest, ensuring the fullest possible realization and maximization of apartment owners’ rights without compromise, at all times.

Management of Developer Tenders and Maximization of Owners’ Rights

The firm has extensive experience in structuring and managing competitive developer tenders designed to maximize owners’ rights while creating genuine competition among the leading development companies in the market.
The selection of a developer is not based solely on the number of square meters offered to residents. The firm examines the full range of relevant considerations, including the quality of benefits and specifications, the developer’s experience, financing capabilities, planning approach, project timetable, guarantees, service standards, and the practical feasibility of implementing the proposal.

Comprehensive Guidance Through Delivery and Registration

The extensive knowledge and experience accumulated over the years enable the firm to understand how decisions made at the agreement stage affect later phases, including evacuation, construction, delivery, and registration. Accordingly, agreements are drafted with a practical focus on the successful completion of the project, rather than solely on the signing date. The firm’s methodology includes ongoing supervision of schedules, review of plans, construction oversight, occupancy, and registration.

Securities and Protection for Apartment Owners

The firm believes that high-value benefits are meaningless without the ability to realize them and without a comprehensive security framework protecting apartment owners. Accordingly, particular emphasis is placed on reviewing project financing arrangements, financing entities, conditions for project commencement, and the full range of guarantees and securities.
The firm ensures the provision of guarantees relating to the delivery of the new apartment, rental payments, tax payments, registration of rights, defect repairs, and legal expenses, together with additional protection mechanisms tailored to each project.
Experience in Leading Complex Projects Nationwide
The firm represents apartment owners in more than 400 projects throughout Israel, including large-scale urban renewal complexes, with a particular focus on highly complex projects involving thousands of rights holders, commercial components, and mixed-use developments.
Among other locations, the firm advises projects in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Holon, Bat Yam, Rishon LeZion, Petah Tikva, Herzliya, Givatayim, Ramat Gan, Kfar Saba, Rehovot, Ness Ziona, Kiryat Ekron, Beit She’an, and Hadera, as well as numerous additional municipalities nationwide.
The team has extensive experience in identifying solutions for projects involving planning, legal, economic, or social complexities, including changes to project structures, the integration of additional buildings or land parcels, the creation of planning integrations, the removal of obstacles, and the advancement of projects that have encountered significant challenges.

Success Is Measured by Receiving the Key

For Amir Steinhartz & Co., project success is not measured by the number of signatures obtained, the selection of a developer, or even the approval of a plan. True success is achieved when apartment owners experience a transparent and positive process and ultimately receive the keys to their new homes, with all rights and conditions established at the outset fully and accurately realized.
Amir Steinhartz & Co. does not limit its role to legal representation. The firm leads apartment owners along the safest, most efficient, and most appropriate path toward the successful realization of their project.