Eliyahu Melech & Co.

Eliyahu Melech & Co. is one of Israel’s most established and prominent law practices in the fields of civil, commercial, and administrative law, with more than four decades of experience in managing complex legal proceedings and providing comprehensive legal services to public and private companies, institutional entities, local authorities, and some of the largest business clients in the Israeli economy. Over the years, the practice has built a strong reputation through the effective combination of legal expertise, extensive litigation experience, and the ability to manage large-scale cases across a broad range of disciplines, while delivering personal, professional, and efficient service to its clients.
Eliyahu Melech & Co. operates through a team-based structure, with a dedicated team leader assigned to each client and personally responsible for case management and ongoing client relations. This model enables an in-depth understanding of each client’s needs, high availability, rapid decision-making, and professional continuity throughout every stage of representation, including large-scale and complex matters that require extensive expertise, professionalism, determination, and persistence over time.
The founder of the practice, followed by the entire legal team, places the highest importance on protecting the sensitive information entrusted to its care and continuously invests in advanced information security infrastructure. The working environment is based on secure technological systems, advanced protection mechanisms, and up-to-date cybersecurity solutions that ensure confidentiality, business continuity, and protection against cyber threats. This approach enables all clients, including those operating in highly confidential and sensitive sectors, to benefit from a secure, reliable, and highly protected working environment that meets the most stringent industry standards.

Extensive Professional Debt Collection Practice

Legal debt collection and enforcement proceedings constitute one of the principal pillars of the practice and one of its most prominent areas of expertise. Eliyahu Melech & Co. operates an extensive, experienced, highly skilled, and market-leading debt collection team that handles complex collection proceedings for clients among the largest organizations in the Israeli economy, including banks, telecommunications companies, public companies, local authorities, institutions, and other major business entities.
The extensive experience accumulated over many years, together with a thorough familiarity with the legal system and enforcement procedures, enables the team to provide effective solutions and achieve tangible results, even in complex matters and large-scale collection cases involving particularly challenging debtors.

Extensive Litigation Experience

Alongside its debt collection activities, the practice has substantial and longstanding experience in managing class actions, representing both plaintiffs and defendants, and advising clients in significant proceedings with broad legal and commercial implications. This area of activity is built on extensive litigation experience and a proven ability to address complex legal issues in commercial, consumer, municipal, and other areas of law, including wide experience and proven results with complicated and principled class actions.

Comprehensive Legal Services in Real Estate

The practice also provides comprehensive legal services in the fields of real estate and urban renewal, including the representation of developers, companies, rights holders, and financing entities in urban renewal and evacuation and reconstruction (Pinui-Binui) projects.
In addition, the team handles a wide range of commercial agreements, corporate law matters, real estate transactions, complex contracts, and large-scale business transactions. At the same time, it is actively engaged in mediation and arbitration and provides clients with a broad range of dispute resolution solutions, both within and outside court proceedings.
In light of his extensive experience in this field and the quality of the results achieved, the head of the practice also serves as a mediator and arbitrator in matters where the parties have specifically selected him for these roles.

Synergy Between Departments

One of the practice’s key strengths is its ability to bring together a broad range of legal disciplines under one roof while creating effective synergy between its various departments and providing comprehensive solutions to clients’ legal needs. This approach enables business clients to receive continuous strategic guidance, from the initial formation of a transaction or business decision through the management of complex legal proceedings and ultimately to their successful resolution.

Throughout its years of activity, Eliyahu Melech & Co. has been involved in thousands of legal proceedings and has appeared thousands of times before all judicial and quasi-judicial forums, including courts, tribunals, appeals committees, and the Supreme Court of Israel. The attorneys have accumulated significant experience in managing complex disputes and achieving favourable, and in some cases precedent-setting, outcomes for clients.
The combination of extensive experience, professionalism, availability, and a deep understanding of the needs of both the business and public sectors continues to position Eliyahu Melech & Co. among Israel’s leading and most highly regarded law practices in the fields of civil, commercial, and administrative law.