Bekerman Efrati, Feuerstein Tayar – Law Office

Bekerman-Efrati, Feuerstein-Tayar, Law Office manages intergenerational transfers and resolves family conflicts through litigation, mediation and arbitration. The firm combines over two decades of professional experience from its founding partners, who personally handle each case with meticulous analysis, calculated risk management, and transparent communication. The firm has earned widespread esteem and precedential rulings in guardianships, will contests and family law.

Management and Planning of Intergenerational Transfer

The firm has led hundreds of proceedings handling high-net-worth families with properties from tens of millions to billion of NIS in Israel and abroad. Clients include complex portfolios in infrastructure, construction, textiles, hi-tech, food, pension insurance, investment management, medical equipment, and post-startup exit families.
The firm addresses emotional, physical and economic challenges of intergenerational transfers through diverse legal tools. Initially, a family charter is formulated through intergenerational discourse about family values, needs, interests, and processes, determining hierarchy while reflecting risks. This guides the wealth transfer architecture. The firm serves as case manager integrating Israeli and foreign taxation, corporate, and international law interfaces. Experience from will contests, estate claims, and guardianship cases informs the preventive process to minimize intra-familial disputes. Services include lasting power of attorney, wills, marital agreements, estate division agreements, living and will trusts, corporate document adjustments, and international taxation considerations.

Counsel to Financial and Corporate Service Providers

The firm cooperates with service providers for high-net-worth clients including family offices (Opal and Quartet), law firms including ERM , accounting firms, tax consultants, and retirement planners. Through collaborative analysis, solutions include marital agreements, wills, trust planning, and corporate amendments enabling wealth management with minimal conflict exposure.

Expertise in Will Contests and Guardianship Disputes

These complex areas require unique knowledge and analytical skills. The firm’s partners have vast experience managing complex litigation including probate objections, estate scope determination, and guardianship disputes with elder estrangement circumstances. This proficiency has led to precedential legal achievements and numerous referrals for appeal proceedings.

Specializing in the Third Age

The firm developed subspecialties for aging individuals and families with gerontology and neuropsychology specialists, leveraging including Adv. Feuerstein-Tayar’s gerontology background and Adv. Bekerman-Efrati’s court appointments as legal guardian. Services include early retirements for defence establishment and state officials with solutions for state-funded and bridge pensions.

Counsel to Corporations, Financial Institutes and Kibbutzim

The firm counsels individuals and corporations including CBC, ERM law firm, and Kibbutzim (Maagan Michael, Magen). It supports Kibbutzim family wealth management across Israel, drafting wills and lasting powers of attorney covering land allocation and privatization complexities with tailored models for each Kibbutz.

Accompanying Clients in Relocation

The firm accompanies overseas relocating clients regarding wealth accumulation abroad, local tax regulations, and intra-familial conflicts. With extensive experience in intercontinental family disputes, child abduction cases, and minor adjustments in transit countries, the firm addresses complex overseas scenarios including death or incapacitation, integrating foreign legal systems and addressing jurisdiction and foreign law protection.

Managing Cases with Private International Law Aspects

The firm handles divorce and estate disputes requiring private international law decisions, cooperating with foreign law firms. Services include jurisdiction in Israeli couple separations, immigration and Hague Convention applications, foreign estate handling, foreign injunction enforceability, foreign power of attorney validity in Israel, foreign will enforcement, and inheritance planning with foreign taxation implications.

Adv. Shlomit Bekerman-Efrati -- Founding Partner

Adv. Bekerman-Efrati brings two decades of family law and wealth management experience. She lectured family law at Bar Ilan University (2012-2022) with Prof. Shahar Lifshitz and Hebrew University (2011). She served on IBA professional committees and disciplinary court, and is court-appointed as legal guardian. She holds LL.B. and LL.M from Hebrew University, is certified IBA mediator and in Collaborative Divorce. IBA member since 2004.

Adv. Shelly Feuerstein-Tayar -- Founding Partner

Adv. Feuerstein-Tayar brings two decades of family law and wealth management experience. Previously an associate at Israel’s largest family law firm (2005-2011), she lectures on family law and intergenerational wealth transfers. She holds LL.B. (honors) and B.A. Communication from Tel Aviv University, M.A. Gerontology (distinction) from Bar-Ilan University. She is certified mediator, IBA-accredited coach, and certified in Collaborative Divorce. IBA member since 2006.