Avraham Lalum & Co. International Law Firm

Avraham Lalum & Co. Law Firm is an international firm and one of Israel’s leading firms in the practice areas of construction loans, real estate, and urban renewal, including an international department with a global reach. The firm has been ranked consistently by Israeli and international guides as one of the leading real estate and urban renewal law firms. The firm is a leading international law firm that has an extension in Ukraine and maintains fertile cooperations with leading law firm from the U.S., Dubai, Zanzibar, Greece, Georgia and other European countries. The firm is business-oriented, and as part of this it offers clients solutions for executing transactions and Israel and abroad. Among other solutions, the firm offers creative solutions for execution overseas transactions through a supervised acquisitions mechanism. The firm represents, among others, leading Israeli developers and contractors, public organizations, local authorities, economic development companies, purchasing groups and leading investors in complex real estate transactions. Some of the firms areas of practice include sale and purchasing agreements, asset-swap (“combination”) transactions, Pinui-Binui, urban renewal, partnerships, contracts in Romania, Ukraine, Germany, Cyprus, U.S and etc, rentals, construction execution, management and financing. The firm also has a dispute resolution department. Since its establishment in 2006, the firm, headed by its founding partner Adv. Avraham Lalum, has striven to realize its goals and targets with the highest level of professionalism, amongst other things finding particularly creative solutions in complex real estate deals while taking into consideration the taxation, planning and property aspects.

An Effective Approach

The firm’s objective is to enable clients to implement transactions effectively and successfully, while carefully planning the overall aspects of the deal, providing personal service which is adapted to the clients and the project’s needs, and comprehensive, close, professional, and creative legal support. The firm’s ongoing success is the best expression of the devoted efforts of its staff.

Real Estate, Banking and Finance

The firm has extensive experience in supporting complex real estate transactions from the initial development stage through their completion.
Over the years, the firm’s lawyers have gained major experience and deep expertise in supporting a wide range of deals including: • Real estate development • Urban renewal • Hotels and yielding properties • Purchasing groups • Planning and zoning • Real estate taxation • Real estate financing while supporting financiers in finance transactions • Arbitrations, mediations, and crisis management.
The firm has expertise in facilitating projects and building a collaterals structure – including the representation of private and institutional financier including some of Israel’s leading underwriters and insurers. Its extensive practical experience enables the firm to provide solutions for the field’s complex issues, including representation vis-à-vis planning and permits institutes, representation in the courts, solutions for complex ownership issues, and tax consulting. Its multi-disciplinary approach enables the firm to provide a truly holistic umbrella of services for its clients, as a one-stop-shop that matches the dynamics of the market in general and the real estate sector.

International Activities

The firm’s international departments includes active branches in Europe and operations in about 15 countries across the globe including: The U.S., Ukraine, Germany, Romania, Georgia, Zanzibar, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Portugal, Austria, The Caribbean Islands and many other.

Professional and Business Connections and Comprehensive Solutions

As an international law firm and one of Israel’s top firms, the firm has a vast network of business and professional connections and it works closely with similar firms and external legal counselors in Israel and abroad, including connections to renowned and leading businesspersons. The firm works in close cooperation with other leading firms in the fields of taxation, planning and zoning, and corporate law, to provide their clients with comprehensive solutions regarding the overall legal issues related to their transactions.
Due to the complexity of the real estate and urban renewal sector, the firm is insistent that every deal transaction is supported and led by a partner.

Urban Renewal

Avraham Lalum & Co. is one of Israel’s recognized and leading firms in all matters related to urban renewal projects and complex combination deals. This major practical experience enables the firm to optimally support and implement every project. The firm’s lawyers provide a response to complex issues in the field including representation before the planning and licensing authorities, representation before judicial authorities, solutions to complex property issues, tax consultancy, support in financing projects, and drafting sale-purchase agreements. Adv. Avraham Lalum, the firm’s head, and founder, is a prominent authority in Israel’s real estate and urban renewal sector and is the author of the books “A Guide to Pinui-Binui Deals” and “A Guide to TAMA 38 Deals.”

Litigation Department

The firm represents and manages cases for leading local and international companies and individuals, directors and officers in complex litigations in the various courts and local and international arbitrations before various arbitration institutes and tribunals, such as the ICC, in planning and zoning committees, in the labor courts and more. The firm has vast experience in handling litigation cases in a wide variety of topics, including class actions, shareholders control struggles, financial and accounting disputes, contractual commercial disputes such as arise from distribution and marketing contracts, licensing and IP, D&O and professional liability, antitrust, tenders, labor law and more.

Labor Law Department

The department practices labor law including ongoing counsel (also in streamlining and downsizing processes), opinions, due diligences and the representation of small and large companies in all aspects of labor law and relations. The department handles individual and collective labor law. The department providing legal counsel to clients in various labor law proceedings (hearings, bipartite proceedings and more) and represents clients in legal proceedings in the labor courts, arbitrations and mediations.

Dispute Resolution and Crises Management Department

The Department is led by Adv. Avi Lalum, a mediator and arbitrator, with years of experience in the field of real estate and labor law dispute resolution, and includes toptier attorneys, leaders in their respective fields. The firm specializes in managing projects that are at crisis stages for various reasons. We work through a dedicated team of experts, headed by the Firm’s founder, Adv. Lalum, whose purpose is to assist enterprises in crisis situations which require a multi-disciplinary perspective, in order to help them overcome their crisis in the fastest and best manner.