Eti Avnery - Employment Law Office

Eti Avnery’s Employment Law Office is a specialized boutique firm focusing on Employment and Commercial Law. Its mission is to lead the way in reshaping the field of Labor Law as it evolves. The firm serves a diverse range of clients, from startups to global corporations, providing solutions for CEOs, legal advisors, CFOs, and HR professionals in all aspects of employment and labor law, including litigation, project management, and maintaining healthy employee-employer relationships. With a deep understanding of both local and international markets, the firm helps its clients navigate everyday business challenges, devise long-term strategies, identify opportunities, and implement effective legal strategies tailored to the needs of the organization and its various initiatives.

Extensive Legal Experience and Expertise

With 13 years of expertise in Employment and Labor Law, Attorney Eti Avnery has a distinguished record of representing a wide array of employers and senior employees. Before founding her own boutique law firm, she was a partner and led the Employment Law departments at prestigious commercial firms, including ERM Law Firm and Dr. Ayal Shenhav Law Office (which later merged into Goldfarb Gross Seligman Law Office). Her practice stands out for its integration of unique commercial insights, a feature not commonly found in other commercial law offices’ Labor Law departments. Eti Avnery’s extensive experience encompasses collaborations with Tech companies, top executives (CEOs and VPs), business founders, international corporations, and government agencies. She is also skilled in conducting large-scale negotiations with high-ranking officials and managing international Employment and Labor Law transactions with foreign companies, law firms, and leading Israeli law offices.

Quality, Professionalism, and Fast Customer Service

Adv. Eti Avnery’s extensive experience and deep expertise in Employment and Commercial Law inspired her to found her own boutique law firm, which is committed to maintaining high standards of quality, professionalism, and timely service. With a background in managing complex negotiations and representing clients in significant labor court cases, Adv. Avnery offers her clients - both employers and senior employees - a professional and comprehensive legal service. She takes a personalized approach to each case, ensuring the most effective and suitable legal solutions are applied. Her experience with both private and public technology companies, as well as senior employees and managers, has equipped the firm with a thorough understanding of legal issues that encompass unique commercial and business dimensions. This enables Adv. Avnery to devise innovative solutions that extend beyond standard legal provisions and Employment and Labor Law judgments.

Office Services

• Ongoing legal guidance for leading Israeli high-tech companies on all labor law matters, such as intellectual property, non-compete and non-solicitation, employee privacy, hiring, dismissal, retirement benefits, executive compensation, equity plans, workplace policies, and initiatives for diversity and inclusion.
• Assistance and representation for foreign experts and managers in navigating immigration processes to Israel, covering sectors like high-tech, cybersecurity, industry, and construction.
• Advisory support for mergers, acquisitions, initial public offerings, and funding rounds in startups.
• Legal representation in various hearings and disputes, including labor courts, the Ministry of Labor and Welfare, the Employment Committee of the Ministry of Defense, and in arbitration and mediation.
• Facilitation of advanced negotiations for employment contracts, confidentiality and non-compete agreements, severance and retirement packages, and service contracts.

Professionalism

Eti Avnery’s Employment Law Office merges commercial acumen with emotional intelligence, providing a deep insight into the intricacies of workplace relationships. This blend, coupled with Adv. Avnery’s proficiency in handling complex negotiations and high-stakes cases, guarantees that clients receive solutions tailored to their specific requirements.

Expertise in Negotiation

The distinctiveness of the firm lies in its exceptional negotiation skills, ensuring optimal legal outcomes and advantageous results for clients. Its remarkable capacity to consider all involved parties, actively listen, and balance diverse interests enhances its capability to safeguard the reputations of both employers and employees. In certain situations, the firm can facilitate the resolution or termination of working relationships in a respectful and dignified manner when no other options are available.

It Is All About Efficiency

The firm prioritizes delivering solutions that are thorough, efficient, and cost-effective. Adv. Eti Avnery takes an active role in every case, not just the complex ones, as a standard practice of the firm. This ensures that legal solutions are not only precise but also promptly provided without incurring unnecessary expenses.

Selected Cases

Our firm successfully represented a public partnership in a complex case involving the departure of the CEO and another executive who attempted to establish a competing private partnership and solicit the public partnership’s investors. We collaborated closely with the partnership’s general partners and board of directors, engaging in intensive hearings and prolonged negotiations. Ultimately, we secured a confidential separation agreement, preventing years of litigation and safeguarding the rights of the public partnership and its investors.

In another case, we represented the founder and CEO of a global high-tech company with six subsidiaries, who faced dismissal after unveiling misconduct by the chairman of the board. Despite the challenges, our firm successfully negotiated a separation agreement for the CEO, including compensation exceeding 20 months’ salary, ensuring a respectful and gradual exit.

We also represented a global company with an Israeli subsidiary in a significant lawsuit filed by its former CEO over an alleged wrongful dismissal. Working closely with the company’s management and the board of the parent company based in England, we managed to de-escalate the conflict and reach a settlement that was substantially less than the initial claim.