Amit, Pollak, Matalon - APM

Amit, Pollak, Matalon (APM) was founded in 1956 and is one of the prominent law firms in Israel. The firm employs approximately 130 lawyers and represents leading economic and commercial entities in Israel and abroad, including industrial companies, construction and development companies, banks, insurance companies, venture capital funds, high-tech companies, government companies, public bodies, and public companies listed in Israel and abroad.
The firm is ranked among the leading firms in numerous practice areas in Israeli and international professional directories, including Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, IFLR 1000, Duns 100, BDi Code, WTR1000, ITR World Tax, and Lexology Index.

Practice Areas

Hi-Tech and Venture Capital: The firm has extensive experience representing Israeli and foreign companies and investors in venture capital investments, as well as in the initiation and establishment of venture capital funds. The firm advises entrepreneurs and startup companies from the initial stage, across a wide range of matters, including tax structure planning, government incentives, intellectual property, employment agreements, commercial agreements, capital raising, and public offerings.
Real Estate: The firm is among the leading firms in Israel in real estate matters and serves a wide range of Israeli clients, while also advising foreign residents in managing their assets in Israel. The firm provides comprehensive solutions including planning and construction, taxation, and financing aspects, for a diverse client base including developers, contractors, investors, and companies. The firm specializes in large and complex real estate transactions, combination transactions, real estate funds, purchasing groups, Tama 38, self-build associations, urban renewal (Pinui-Binui), Mehir LaMishtaken, and more.
Planning and Zoning: The firm has extensive experience in advancing complex and high-end real estate projects for leading real estate companies in Israel, landowners, developers, and investors. The firm handles a wide range of planning and construction matters, including master plans and permits, urban renewal, betterment levies, claims for planning-related damages, expropriations, municipal taxation, reliefs, non-conforming uses, and more.
In addition, the firm advises developers, authorities, and public bodies on complex administrative law matters, including legal advice, strategic planning, and representation before authorities, planning and construction committees, and administrative courts.
Urban Renewal: firm is among the leading firms in Israel in the field of urban renewal and has extensive experience and reputation in representing developers, contractors, and apartment owners in all types of urban renewal projects, including Tama 38, Tama 38/2, and Pinui-Binui projects. The firm provides comprehensive solutions, including legal feasibility analysis, management of legal negotiations for agreements, handling taxation aspects, assisting clients in engagements with financing entities, handling planning and construction aspects, registration of rights, and more.
Tax: The department provides ongoing legal support in various aspects of economic-fiscal law, with emphasis on different tax fields including international taxation, corporate taxation, individual taxation, trust taxation, real estate taxation, and indirect taxes. The firm specializes in planning and creating optimal cross-border tax structures. Clients benefit from an extensive professional network, particularly due to close relationships with leading accounting firms in Israel.
Personal and Family Wealth: Through creativity and an extensive network of connections, the firm provides effective solutions for personal and family wealth management, including international tax planning and protection of multinational assets, risk reduction and yield enhancement of assets and estates, in Israel and abroad, establishment and management of trusts and foreign companies, asset acquisition, and structuring of holdings. The firm represents Israeli clients, foreign residents, and entities and trusts for family wealth planning and for charitable purposes.
Insolvency and Litigation: The firm specializes and is a leading practice in insolvency proceedings, including company liquidation and rehabilitation, stays of proceedings, receiverships, and bankruptcies. This activity includes representing creditors and debtors in complex proceedings involving liquidations, receiverships, restructurings, and debt arrangements. The firm’s attorneys are frequently appointed by courts as receivers, trustees, liquidators, and special administrators in complex cases.
Commercial, Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions: The firm provides entrepreneurs, industrialists, financial institutions, and Israeli and international companies with comprehensive legal advice in a wide range of commercial matters, including distribution agreements, licensing, joint ventures, international transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and more.
Technology and Regulation: The firm has a dedicated team with technological knowledge and understanding, dealing with regulatory aspects in the technological and digital space, including legal advice, implementation, and integration of local and global legal requirements such as consumer protection, online advertising, privacy and data protection, data collection and use, and accessibility requirements applicable to websites, applications, and digital platforms.
The firm also advises on policy issues relating to self-regulatory bodies, search engines, and social networks. In addition, the firm provides support in regulation and government relations, including drafting legislation proposals, preparing position papers, strategic advice, and representation before Knesset committees and regulatory bodies in various fields such as competition law, corporate and securities law, tenders, and consumer protection.
Privacy, Cyber and Data Protection: The firm provides legal and technological advice on information security matters, implementation of technological measures, management of privacy and information security systems, and management of organizational marketing systems, as well as support in obtaining information security certifications (ISO, SOC, etc.). The firm provides responses to compliance processes with relevant regulations in Israel and worldwide. The firm has a dedicated response team specializing in handling information security incidents and addressing cyber challenges.
Banking and Finance: The firm has particular expertise in finance and banking, including project finance, structuring of security arrangements, securitization, equity completions/company acquisitions, drafting and advising on financing agreements involving senior debt, closed bank financing in the format of construction loans and BOT, equity financing and mezzanine loans, creation of securities, syndication of lenders, intercreditor agreements, financial closings, and issuance of complex financial instruments. The firm represents private and institutional financiers, underwriters, banks, and insurance companies.
Capital Markets and Securities: The firm provides ongoing advice to public and private companies in matters of corporate and securities law, as well as public offerings and private capital raisings. The firm handles reporting to securities authorities and stock exchanges in Israel and abroad and advises on capital markets taxation, employee stock options, and control disputes in companies.
Litigation and Dispute Resolution: The firm represents a wide range of clients before all courts and judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, including arbitrations and mediations. The firm has knowledge and experience in a wide variety of litigation proceedings and complex disputes across civil, commercial, and administrative law, as well as in crisis management and legal proceedings in Israel and internationally.
Arbitration and Mediation: The firm’s extensive experience across legal fields enables it to operate an arbitration and mediation center active in both commercial and interpersonal disputes. The center manages complex arbitrations in a professional, discreet, and efficient manner across all areas of commercial law.
Labor and Employment: The firm provides ongoing legal advice in labor and employment law across various industries in Israel, with expertise in representing employers, handling labor unions, collective agreements, and collective disputes. Services include representation before labor courts, support in M&A transactions, ongoing advice including employee benefits structures, employment agreements, including complex agreements for senior executives, compensation and bonus mechanisms, confidentiality and non-compete agreements confidentiality arrangements, terminations, and more.
Intellectual Property: The firm has a dedicated team combining legal expertise in intellectual property law, including trademarks, patents, copyrights, and more, with understanding of scientific and technological matters. The team provides a comprehensive solution across all aspects of intellectual property, including drafting agreements, representation in complex IP litigation, management of trademark and patent registrations, and strategic advisory for protection and enforcement policies.
On the contractual side, the department drafts, among other things, commercialization and licensing agreements, ownership transfer agreements, coexistence agreements, and joint development agreements, and conducts due diligence for investment and M&A transactions. On the dispute side, the department represents clients in disputes concerning IP ownership, employee inventions, enforcement and infringement proceedings, and corporate disputes in high-tech companies.
In addition, the department’s partners have developed expertise in the field of artificial intelligence and the application of intellectual property laws to this technology, and advise clients on adopting organizational policies for its use.
Energy and Infrastructure: The firm represents Israeli and international corporations, financing bodies, entrepreneurs, and service providers in the fields of energy and infrastructure, providing legal advice in matters including construction, operation, tenders, licensing, regulation, and financing. The firm specializes in international conventional and renewable energy projects, as well as BOT and PFI projects.
Class Actions: The firm’s class actions and economic litigation department is one of the leading departments in its field in Israel. The firm is among the first law firms in Israel to have handled class action cases. The department has been involved in numerous precedent-setting rulings in the fields of class and derivative actions, contributing to the development of this area of law in Israel.
The department specializes in representing respondents in a wide range of class actions and derivative claims, including those with a clear economic aspect. In addition, the department has extensive experience in class actions in the fields of taxation and consumer matters, and handles multi-plaintiff class actions involving issues of broad public importance.
India and East Asia: The firm has many years of experience providing comprehensive legal advice to clients from Israel and abroad operating in relation to India and East Asia, as well as to clients seeking to expand their activities into these markets.
Global Markets: The firm identifies investment and acquisition opportunities, takes part in the initiation of funds and business ventures, supports fundraising, assists in business development, and successfully navigates cross-border business crises. The firm operates in major markets in the United States, Europe, and additional markets including Australia, India, Singapore, China, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, DACH countries, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain.
Healthcare and Life Sciences: The firm’s healthcare and life sciences department provides legal advice and support to dozens of pharmaceutical, medical device, digital health, and startup companies at all stages of development. The team guides clients in complying with local and international regulatory requirements, including privacy, medical data protection, cybersecurity risk mitigation, GDPR, HIPAA, clinical trial requirements, and more. The department works closely with the firm’s intellectual property department to develop protection and commercialization strategies.
Fintech: The firm’s fintech department operates at the forefront of legal developments in this field. The team advises fintech companies and guides them in complying with evolving regulatory requirements, both local and international. The department provides ongoing legal advice on capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, regulation and licensing, commercial agreements, privacy, data security, cybersecurity risk mitigation, and also in crypto and blockchain matters, including fund establishment, issuance, and token structuring.
Gaming: The department advises gaming companies, marketing partners, software and game providers, investors, and others, assisting them in navigating legal and regulatory complexities across multiple jurisdictions. Services include support in international expansion, regulatory compliance, commercial agreements, and M&A transactions. The firm combines global legal and business perspectives with deep industry expertise. The firm offers clients a unique advantage – decades of accumulated experience in handling transactions and complex projects in the gaming and online gambling industry, backed by deep familiarity with international regulation.
Media and Entertainment: The firm’s media and entertainment department is among the leading in Israel and provides legal advice to participants in the fields of media, culture, sports, entertainment, and intellectual property, including talents, artists, athletes, producers, distributors, broadcasters, agencies, and content and music companies. The department’s expertise includes drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, protection and management of copyrights and performers’ rights, and regulatory advice. The department also represents clients in commercial disputes, including mediation and arbitration.