Bar Yosef, Nawi, Torgeman & Co., Law Offices

Bar Yosef, Nawi, Torgeman & Co., Law Offices is a high-quality leading boutique firm that specializes in insolvency (Debt arrangements for companies and individuals, companies liquidations and bankruptcies), representation of residents in urban renewal projects, and civil-commercial litigation. The firm was established in 2010 and over the past decade it has been recording consistent growth both in the volumes of its activity as well as in the high-profile and significance if its cases. The firm employs a team of 10 experienced and proficient lawyers who set a new standard of client service and uncompromising expertise on a daily basis.

Urban Renewal

The firm is one of Israel’s pioneers in the urban renewal segment (NOP 38 and Pinui-Binui) and is distinct in its decision to only represent residents. This enables the firm to protect the interests of the apartments’ owners vis-à-vis the developers and also to work with then in full transparency. One of the clearest expressions of this transparency is a user-friendly app that the firm implemented in order to manage multilateral projects. The app provides residents with ongoing updates throughout the entire project lifecycle – from the formulation of a residents’ delegation and conducting the public tender for developers, and up to the actual construction, the delivery of the apartments and the registration of the multi-occupancy house. The firm’s mission is to maximize the consideration for the residents and it is fully and actively involved in the work processes vis-à-vis the developer, the execution contractor and the local authority. Currently, the firm represents residents in about 50 projects across central Israel, including in Herzliya, Ramat Gan, Givatayim, Holon and Tel Aviv.

Insolvency and Debt Restructurings

The firm specializes in insolvency law and debt restructurings for companies and individuals. The co-heads of the firm’s Insolvency Department – Adv. Ronen Nawi and Adv. Moshe Turgeman – are part of the Central District Special Managers List and are accordingly often appointed as court-appointed officers in liquidations, moratoriums, debt restructuring and bankruptcies. The firm represents companies, shareholders and individuals in companies’ turnarounds, debt restructurings, formulation of agreements with banks and the tax authorities, including in court proceedings and in out-of-court quasi-proceedings in the framework of “individual arrangements”, which include personal guarantees liability exemption clauses. As of today, hundreds of insolvency cases are managed by the firm, with some of the notable being: The representation of the Gami and Haim Group Ltd. in collections amounting to NIS 230M; The Insolvency case of the real estate group “Eldad Peri”; The execution of a creditors arrangement for A. A. HaTichon Ltd. for debts amounting to NIS 90M; serving as court-appointed officers for the liquidation of the David-El Group which employs 1,200 employees and has an annual turnover of more than NIS 100M; Operating construction companies under liquidation orders, large debt restructuring and appointment as the trustees of the assets of the bankrupted real estate mogul Amir Muchtari and more.

Civil/Commercial Litigation

This department has vast experience in managing complex cases, both in the courts and in arbitrations. The firm represents leading Israeli companies (such as ongoing legal counsel for Danya Cebus Ltd. and to renowned investment firms) and also represents private clients in cases that concern complex and simple civil/commercial disputes, representation in claims on grounds of contractual breaches of all types (disputes between companies, shareholders, partners and investors, parties to real estate contracts, partnership dissolution, construction defects, libel etc.).

Compassion and Cordiality Alongside with Determined Striving Towards Victory

The firm is considered to be young and dynamic and its clients benefit from a friendly, compassionate and cordial attitude from its team. However, the firm’s team never hesitates to take the gloves off and fight for its clients in all courts of law.

The Partners

Adv. Roy Ben Yosef, Founding Partner - Roy has more than 10 years of experience in the legal profession with an expertise in real estate law, complex financing transactions, real estate taxation, and planning and zoning laws, which constitute the core of the urban renewal field. Roy is considered to be one of Israel’s veteran urban renewal (NOP 38 and Pinui-Binui) lawyers, and to date he has accompanied hundreds of apartments owners vis-à-vis developers and local authorities. Some of the projects he facilitated are already under construction and some were completed. Roy lectures in professional seminars of apartment owners and urban renewal professionals and also in the Israel Bar Association’s urban renewal conventions. Roy has an LL.B. with a specialization in commercial law and real estate and an M.B.A. with a specialization in finance, both in the framework of the excelling students program of the College of Management. He was admitted to the Bar in 2009.

Adv. Ronen Nawi, Founding Partner - Ronen has vast experience in insolvency and debt restructurings and in civil-commercial litigation. Prior to joining the firm in 2016, he served as an associate and later as a partner in the insolvency department of Knoller & Co. for seven years. During this period he led very noteworthy cases in the Israeli insolvency practice area, including the representation of the Eduardo Edelstein Group which acquired the control in IDB, representation of the Hadassah Hospital in a rehabilitation program due to a debt of NIS 1.3B, and also represented the buyer of Agrexco (Gidon Bikel). Ronen is included in the court-appointed special managers list of the Official Receiver in the Central and Tel Aviv District and also serves as a trustee, liquidator, special manager and receiver on behalf of the courts, Tel Aviv Municipality and numerous other entities for individuals and corporations in insolvency proceedings. Ronen regularly lectures in trainings on insolvency matters that are organized by the Israel Bar Association, The Official Receiver, and Law Publishers. He manages complex litigation proceedings in all of the courts and in this framework he is currently managing several complex commercial litigation proceedings in the district courts (including some in the economic departments) and several Supreme Court appeals. By education he has an LL.B. from the College of Management Rishon LeZion (cum laude) and an M.B.A. with a specialization in finance (cum laude). He was admitted to the Bar in 2009.

Adv. Moshe Turgeman, Founding Partner - Moshe is an expert in insolvencies of individuals and corporations, debt restructurings, operation of companies under liquidation orders and moratoriums, and has vast experience in this field. He served as an attorney in the Official Receiver’s Tel Aviv and Central District for about 5 years, where he managed cases with public implications and vast financial scopes. Since 2016, Moshe has been practicing independently, and is included in the court-appointed special managers list of the Official Receiver in the Central and Tel Aviv District. In this framework, he is appointed by the Supervisor of Individual Insolvency Proceedings and the district courts as an officer for accompanying, operating and managing corporations until proceedings are completed. By education he holds an M.B.A. with a specialization in capital markets, and an LL.B., both from the academic program of the College of Management. He was admitted to the Bar in 2010.