Cohen-Katzav, Keren, Dahan & Co.

Cohen-Katzav, Keren, Dahan & Co. (KDC) is a leading law firm that specializes in urban renewal and real estate, in-cluding representation of apartment owners in urban renewal projects and transactions and financing. The firm was chosen as one of the leading firms in the rankings of the best, the key persons and more. The firm’s founders, who are renowned authorities in their practice areas, were selected for the list of Israel’s 70 Influencers in Real Estate and Urban Renewal. They are in-cluded in the respectable shortlist of the few lawyers in Israel to have popu-lated a Pinui-Binui project, from the organization stage and up to the popu-lation and registration stage, and also delivered hundreds of apartments in urban renewal projects. The firm’s unique strength stems from a combina-tion between decades of professional experience, and the personal support that the clients receive from the partners themselves, as the firm’s team ac-companies them throughout the entire journey.
The vast practical legal experience in accompanying and implementing complex real estate transactions, Pinui-Binui and Tama 38 projects, and large-scale zoning plans and in representing urban renewal administrations and authorities in the urban re-newal field, creates the added value from which the firm’s clients benefit and greatly contributes to the efficient and successful implementation of projects, while fully protecting the clients’ interests. KDC represents thousands of apartment owners in complex urban renewal and asset-swap (“combination”) transactions.

Practice Areas

Urban Renewal - KDC has a particular specialization and extensive experience in accompanying urban renewal – Pinui Binui, Tama 38/2, and Tama 38/1. The comprehensive legal support starts from the organization of the apartment owners, selecting the correct project outline, reviewing the project’s planning, economic and social feasibility, managing the RFP for selecting the developers as to maximize the consideration to the apartment owners, contractual negotiations and receiving all of the guarantees and collaterals, up until the new apartments are delivered to their owners and the multioccupancy house order is amended. The firm provides professional and accessible service, including legal strategies and tactics, with an emphasis on efficiency, creativity and transparency from start to finish.

Real Estate Transactions - The firm provides legal services for all aspects of real estate, including facilitating complex transactions, mix use projects, yielding properties, high-density residences, asset-swap transactions, new and second-hand homes, representation of purchasing groups and handling the registration of rights, multioccupancy houses and parcellation, tailored for each and every client.

Real Estate Transactions Financing - The firm handles real estate transactions financing, including working with private REITs, financial institutes, banks, insurance companies, corporations, investors and more. It has vast experience in accompanying complex construction loans, including for urban renewal projects. The firm’s team has vast experience in preparing drafting finance and construction loan agreements vis-v-vis all of Israel’s large banks and financial institutes.

The Partners

Adv. Nurit Cohen - Katzav - a graduate of Bar Ilan University and lawyer since 2004, specializes in accompany-ing and representing apartment owners in various large-scale urban renewal pro-jects, and has vast experience in accompanying complex real estate transactions, mix use projects, project finance, option transactions, combination transactions and more. She provided legal counsel to numerous local authorities and urban re-newal administrations, including the preparation of legal opinions, drafting pre-rezoning agreements and development agreements, and she also appears frequently before the local and district planning committee and also in the National Commission for Planning Preferred Residential Complexes (VATMAL). Adv. Co-hen-Katzav was one of the founders of the urban renewal administration “Ezra and Bitzron” in Tel Aviv, and participated in the establishments of urban renewal ad-ministrations in the cities of Lod, Ramla, Beit Shemesh and more. In light of her longstanding experience, she is one of the lecturers of the Real Estate School of the Ono Academic College, served as the academic coordinator of a workshop on Tama 38 in the Hebrew University, and still coordinates and lectures frequently in various frameworks, such as trainings and seminars of the Israel Bar Association, the Local Government Federation, the Israeli Construction Center, and urban renewal admin-istrations across Israel. She was included in the list of the “70 Influencers in the Is-raeli Urban Renewal and Real Estate Field”.

Adv. Or Keren - specializes in legal representation of apartment owners in urban renewal projects, Pinui-Binui and Tama 38, and in complex real estate transactions, mix use projects, project finance, option transactions, combination transactions and more. He provides ongoing legal counsel and assistance to rights owners in re-al estate transactions, starting from the planning proceedings, including the ap-proval of zoning plans, contract negotiations, accompanying the financial negotia-tions, legal services for guarantees, securities and pledges, up to the registration of a multioccupancy house and rights. Adv. Keren has accompanied hundreds of ur-ban renewal projects, including thousands of apartments in various planning stag-es, up to the delivery of the new apartments, in Pinui-Binui and Tama 38/2 projects. Adv. Keren is a member of the Israel Bar Association’s Property and Real Estate Committee. He was included in the “70 Influencers in the Israeli Urban Renewal and Real Estate Field” list.

Adv. Roi Dahan - Adv. Dahan specializes in legal representation of apartment own-ers in urban renewal projects, Pinui-Binui and Tama 38, and accompanies complex real estate transactions, mix use projects, project finance, option transactions, combination transactions and more. He provides ongoing counsel and legal assis-tance to rights owners in real estate projects, in real estate transactions, starting from the planning proceedings, including the approval of zoning plans, contractual ad financial negotiations, legal services for guarantees, securities and pledges, up to the registration of a multioccupancy house and rights. Adv. Dahan has accompa-nied hundreds of urban renewal projects with thousands of apartments up to the delivery of the new apartments, both in a Pinui-Binui project that lasted many years and in Tama 38 projects. Adv. Dahan has been a member of the Israel Bar Associa-tion’s Property and Real Estate Committee since 2017, and is certified as a mediator by the Ministry of Justice. He was included in the “70 Influencers in the Israeli Ur-ban Renewal and Real Estate Field” list.