Dan Halpert Law Office And Notary

Dan Halpert - Law Office and Notary is a boutique law firm specializing in real estate, lands and urban renewal, and is one of Israel’s Top-5 firms in the facilitation of Tama 38/1, Tama 38/2 and Pinui-Binui projects. The firm, headed by Adv. Halpert, has extensive experience providing legal services to thousands of clients in hundreds of Tama 38 and Pinui-Binui projects across the country. The firm is unique in its ability to mold the apartment owners into a homogenous group while advancing them towards the goal and finding creative solutions for complex situations. Adv. Dan Halpert has extensive knowledge and experience in real estate, lands, planning and zoning, Tama 38 and Pinui-Binui laws, alongside with proven business knowledge. He has an LL.B., and LL.M. and a B.A., Business Administration - an optimal combination of business and law which offers him a broad perspective of the entire field.

Adv. Dan Halpert, Founder and Owner

Adv. Halpert expertise are expressed in the variety of positions in which he is in demand and his expertise is required: He officiates as V. Chairperson of the National Urban Renewal Committee of the IBA, which handles Tama 38, Pinui-Binui and Urban Renewal, and occasionally participates in Knesset and The Ministry of Justice discussions on urban renewal. In addition, he also serves as a certified arbitrator and mediator in legal and commercial disputes in the real estate and urban renewal spheres, Founder and co-chairman of the Center for Dispute Resolution in Urban Renewal, the Business Arbitration Institute which was established in 2023, and litigator at the Bar Association’s Disciplinary Court. Adv. Halpert’s expertise and his leadership in the field are also expressed in his many articles on real estate, Tama 38 and Pinui-Binui topics in Israel’s leading financial journals: Globes, The Marker, Calcalist, Maariv and Yediot, in addition he gives to Radio programs and different media bodies, in his lectures in various forums - the IBA, the “Theory and Practice” Center, the Appraisers Chamber, The Land Surveyors Chamber, The Realtors Union, The Real Estate Center, developers forums and colleges, and in his management of an internet forum on urban renewal.

Practice Areas

Real Estate, Lands, Planning and Zoning - This field requires up-to-date, thorough and in-depth knowledge and a complete mastery of the various laws, regulations and issues of the real estate sector – the combination of an LL.B., and LL.M., a B.A., Business Administration, the facilitation of hundreds of diverse transactions across the whole of Israel and vast experience in civil-commercial litigation, provide Adv. Halpert with a tremendous advantage and a comprehensive and complete view of the transactions, from both the legal and the business-commercial aspects. Aside all those, Adv. Halpert has vast knowledge and experience in the field of insolvency and he often serves as an official on behalf of the official receiver in the Ministry of Justice in bankruptcy and liquidation cases including of companies in the field of urban renewal.

Real Estate Transactions - Adv. Dan Halpert and the firm’s team make sure to provide personal and individual attention to each and every client (buyers/sellers/land or apartment owners in asset-swap or Tama 38/Pinui Binui transactions/developers). The firm accompanies its clients from end to end with great devotion, from the commercial negotiations, through the legal negotiations, drafting the agreements and their annexes, ongoing correspondence with the authorities, supporting the contracting with the various professionals and consultants, and full registration of the transaction in the Lands Registrar Chamber. The firm provides clients with legal representation in the various courts (land commissioner, magistrate, district and Supreme) in various real estate related proceedings - Tama 38, Pinui-Binui, dissolution of partnerships, tenant protection, realty, rents, trespassing, construction defects and more. The firm accumulated vast experience in a variety of real estate segments and it supports private clients, contractors and developers in simple and complex transactions, purchasing groups, asset-swap transactions, registration and amendment of multi-occupancy houses and of course Tama 38 and Pinui-Binui transactions.

Urban Renewal, Tama 38, Pinui-Binui - The firm accompanies hundreds of Tama 38/1 projects (seismic retrofitting) Tama 38/2 (demolition and reconstruction) and a lot of complexes’ Pinui-Binui transactions in numerous cities across Israel. Thus, the firm acquired vast knowledge and experience in complex transactions and the understanding and capability to promote such transactions prudently, focused and quickly. The ever-changing regulations and laws require practitioners to have up-to-date knowledge and a broad and keen business perspective. This combination has led thousands of apartments owners and the developers of hundreds of projects, all across Israel, to hire the firm’s services. The services extended by the firm headed by Adv. Halpert start with the formulation of apartment owners’ agreements, through the negotiations and holding the developers’ tenders in order to maximize the considerations and guarantees for the apartment owners, feasibility testing, all the way to signing the contracts, issuance of guarantees and amending the joint-home orders. The firm’s lawyers provide professional and available service, which includes an analysis of the legal situation, construction of a strategy regarding the legal action needed, alongside planning the tactics of the project management, implementing efficiency considerations and creativity, while constantly and uncompromisingly striving to achieve the goal.

Insolvency - Bankruptcies and Liquidations - Adv. Dan Halpert has been serving for about 20 years as an appointed official (special manager/trustee/receiver/liquidator) in liquidation and bankruptcy proceedings under the appointment of the Official Receiver. He represents creditors (companies and individuals), financiers and other entities and also debtors who face financial difficulties or bankruptcies. The legal representation that the firm provides covers investigations, asset location and seizures, management and liquidation of properties, cancelation of gifting, management of legal arrangements aimed at concluding the proceedings in the best and fastest manner (debt reliefs/restructurings). Among others, Adv. Halpert was appointed by the Be’er Sheva District Court as a temporary liquidator of a troubled development company in a large Tama 38 project. executed by it in Ashdod and he is working to extract the project and enable its advancement.

Litigation - The firm provides professional legal representation of the highest quality to its clients in all of the courts - magistrate, district, supreme courts, the local matter courts, the Lands Commissioner, the Planning Committees and even in criminal proceedings of planning and zoning -construction without permit, breaching use etc.
The firm represents clients in a variety of civil and commercial litigation matters including: civil disputes, real estate disputes, planning and zoning proceedings in the local and appeal committees, eviction claims, receiverships, contractual claims, business disputes, representation of suspects in criminal planning and zoning proceedings and legal facilitation of urban renewal proceedings (from both the planning and property aspects).

Liquidation of Properties - Whether property is sold to a third party voluntarily or under legal coercion (for example as a result of a process of execution and receivership), the procedure is called in professional jargon the realization of assets. The firm works to realize real estate assets such as lots, apartments and commercial properties. Its vast experience in representing parties in civil and commercial disputes and managing legal proceedings enables it to provide the clients with a realistic situation appraisal and prepare an accurate and optimal “risk assessment” before the legal proceedings have been filed.

Mediation and Arbitration - As a certified mediator, Adv. Halpert conducts mediations between opponents who appear before him until they reach agreements and compromises. He also serves as a certified and deciding arbitrator in civil-commercial and real estate/urban renewal disputes. Also, attorney Dan Halpert is the founder and co-chairman of the Center for Dispute Resolution in Urban Renewal, the Commercial Arbitration Institution that was established in 2023.