Farbman, Reshef & Co.

Farbman, Reshef & Co. Law Firm was founded in 2001 and is one of the leading and esteemed firms in the real estate and urban renewal fields. The firm meticulously provides personal, professional and thorough services for its clients, based on its core values of professionalism, reliability, fairness and creativity. The firm provides legal services in the fields of real estate, planning and zoning (P&Z), real estate taxation, corporate law, support and promotion of planning proceedings, registration and civil litigation. The firm also provides notary and civil arbitration services. The firm represents a broad range of clients, including rights owners, purchasing groups, as well as private and public real-estate companies, that have been working in the field for many years and serve as an important pillar in the development of real-estate in Israel.

Executive Staff

Adv. and Notary Guy Farbman, Founding Owner - Adv. and Notary Guy Farbman, Founding Partner Adv. Farbman is a renowned expert in the field of real-estate. He has vast experience in civil-commercial law, including corporate, P&Z, real-estate taxation, accompanying purchasing groups, combination transactions, and planning and executing complex real estate transactions. Adv. Farbman appears before various legal tribunals, serves as Chairperson of The Property and Land Committee at the Bar Association and as an arbitrator on behalf of the Bar. Adv. Farbman was chosen as one of the 30 leading attorneys in Israel according to the website “Bar Samha” and one of the 70 most influential lawyers in the field of real estate and urban renewal.

Adv. and Notary Efrat Reshef, Owner - Adv. Reshef is one of Israel’s leading real-estate attorneys in the facilitation of all aspects of Pinui-Binui and Tama 38 projects. She has extensive experience in planning and executing complex real-estate transactions, including combination transactions, complementary lands, public tenders, counsel, promotion and support for complex re-parcellation plans, counseling, accompanying and promoting rezoning plans and complex re-parcellation plans. She is a member of the Israel Bar Association’s Title and Urban Renewal committees, lectures in various real-estate forums and was selected as one of Israel’s Top-70 real estate and urban renewal influencers. She was accredited as a lawyer in Israel in 2003.

Adv. Chen Cohen – Partner - Adv. Cohen has a vast experience in representing leading real estate companies, and also in representing entrepreneurs, contractors, and rights owners in the field of real estate and urban renewal. Adv. Cohen is also experienced in planning and executing complex real estate deals, that include thousands of existing housing units in projects of Pinui Binui, Binui Pinui, transfer of rights, and TAMA 38 on its various types, including mixed-use complexes for commerce, offices, and residential. Adv. Cohen accompanies regularly large-scale financing transactions opposite banks, insurance companies, funds and different financial institutions.
Adv. Cohen was chosen as one of the 40 most promisinglawyers in the field of real estate and urban renewal. Certified as a lawyer in Israel in 2012.

Experience, Professionalism, and Creativity - Thousands of Successfully Inhabited Housing Units

Farbman Reshef is one of the offices with the widest scope in Israel of successfully completed projects, with legal guidance for over 115 projects where new apartments were delivered to thousands of apartment owners and hundreds of real estate transactions completed, positioning it as a top office in the field of urban renewal real estate with extensive experience. The office is involved in real estate transactions as well as projects and evacuation-construction complexes nationwide, including, among others, Migdal HaEmek, Haifa, Kiryat Yam, Hadera, Netanya, Kfar Saba, Hod Hasharon, Herzliya, Ra’anana, Ramat Gan, Givatayim, Tel Aviv, Givat Shmuel, Petah Tikva, Rishon LeZion, Rehovot, Be’er Sheva, and more.

Practice Areas

Land and Real Estate Law and Arbitration Services - In this major practice area, the firm provides legal services from a broad economic and legal perspective, synergistically with other practices areas: real-estate taxation, P&Z, urban renewal and litigation, in order to provide the best service and results. The firm specializes in all real-estate-related issues: legal support for initiators and constructors, from negotiations to registration, urban renewal, combination transactions, purchasing groups, sale and purchase, yielding properties, counsel for individuals and groups and due diligence. Our vast real-estate experience enables us to counsel and arbitrate at all of the transaction’s stages, including right purchasing, negotiations, contracting with various entities, financing agreements and formalization and solutions for complex registrations.
Urban Renewal - Our Firm leads the Israeli urban renewal field and counsels and supports individuals and initiators in all types of urban renewal, including Pinui-Binui ,Ibui-Binui and Binui-Pinui, complementary land, rights mobilization, and Tama 38 (reinforcement/demolition and reconstruction), from the initial concept formulation stage and up to the completion of the project through the delivery of the new apartments to their owners. Our firm is one of the few firms in Israel that completed urban renewal projects (more than 80 projects) and reached the delivery stage. The expertise and experience that we gained through the completion of the projects have turned our firm into a leading firm on a national scale in this field.
Real-Estate Taxation - Our firm has broad experience and a strategic perspective on all aspects of real-estate tax (purchasing, betterment, VAT) in diverse real-estate transactions, including sale and purchase of real-estate assets, purchasing groups, urban renewal transactions (including Tama 38 and Pinui-Binui), combination transactions, rights mobilization and land cooperatives transactions. The firm’s team works in cooperation and full coordination with various government agencies in order to execute the transactions in the most appropriate, accurate and economic way for the firm’s clients. The firm’s operations in this area includes pre-execution planning, and all of the required aspects: pre-rulings, reporting, agreement drafting, legal opinions, self-assessments, and representation in various proceedings before the tax authorities including in objections and appeals proceedings.
Planning and Zoning - This practice area constitutes an inseparable part of the firm’s ongoing operations. An in-depth understanding of this field directly affects the characteristics of the forming real-estate transaction. The firm accompanies on an ongoing basis owners and developers in the promotion of plans, objections and appeals, and also accompanies projects that include architectural conservation structures, expropriations and zoning changes and provides legal counsel and comprehensive and professional support vis-à-vis local and district P&Z commissions, appeal commissions, administrative courts, district courts and the Supreme Court.