Farbman, Reshef & Co.

Farbman, Reshef & Co. Law Firm
When Real Estate Meets Legal Excellence

Since its 2001 establishment, the firm of Farbman, Reshef & Co. stands at the forefront of the leading and most influential boutique real estate and urban renewal firms. We specialize in counselling and providing support to complex real estate transactions, while creating a unique combination between the profound understanding of the Israeli real estate industry and legal creativity and innovation. Our clients get the comprehensive legal package – law, strategy, and business – tailored to every step of the process, along with uncompromising expertise and meeting the unique needs of every client.
The firm maintain proven expertise in accompanying a wide range of clients: developers, right owners, acquisition groups, and leading real estate companies, both private and public, which together constitute as a significant basis in the construction and development of the Israeli urban space. Thus far, we have successfully accompanied and completed over 130 large-scale projects, which include thousands of new residential units, and have completed hundreds of real estate transactions, which, in turn, led to the population of thousands of apartments nationwide.

What Distinguishes Our Firm?

• Holistic support – from planning to completion: legal-business-strategic support for complex real estate and urban renewal transactions, from the initial planning stages to the completion of the transaction.
• Creative solutions – tailored for every project and client: initiating precise solutions that provide a comprehensive response to the needs and unique complexities of each project and client.
• Proven successes in strategic projects: involvement in significant projects in the field of urban renewal, residential, commercial and mixed-use complexes nationwide, including 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, Bat Yam, Lod, Ramle, Sderot, Be’er Sheva, and more.
• Multidisciplinary expertise – under one roof: a combination of legal expertise in real estate, planning and zoning, real estate taxation, litigation, and arbitration – providing clients with a significant advantage.
• Personal service and uncompromising expertise: a boutique firm with an emphasis on personal service, professionalism, availability, full transparency, and hands-on involvement of its partners throughout the entire process.

Experience, Expertise, and Creativity – When Real Estate Meets Legal Excellence

The firm of Farbman, Reshef & Co. has set itself the goal of being a leading professional and business authority in the fields of real estate and urban renewal. Thanks to its unique combination of experience, expertise, legal knowhow, and creativity, the firm acts as partner in our clients’ journey, at every step of the process - from the initial stages of planning the legal strategy to completing the transaction successfully. Farbman, Reshef & Co. – does not only accompany the transactions – but also builds together with its clients, while maintaining both professional excellence as well as upholds economic and regulatory interests along the way.

Practice Areas

Real Estate and Arbitration
The firm’s support a characterized by a wide perspective that combines both the economic and the legal aspects of the transaction, as well as in the synergy with our other areas of practice: real estate taxation, planning and zoning, urban renewal, and litigation, in order to provide the best service and results for our clients.
The firm specializes in all matters relating to the field of real estate: legal support for developers and contractors, from early negotiation stages to the registration of the transaction in the land registry, combination transactions, purchase groups, sale and acquisition, income-yielding real estate, support for groups and individuals, conducting due diligence, development agreements, founding and partnership agreements, contractor agreements, etc.
The expertise and extensive experience that the firm has gained in the field of real estate allows it to provide arbitration services and legal advice for all stages of the transaction, including the acquisition of rights, negotiation management, drafting contracts, financial support agreements, as well as arranging and providing solutions for complex registrations.

Urban Renewal
Our firm leads the Israeli urban renewal industry and provides legal support and counsel to both private individuals and developers in all areas of urban renewal, including pinui-binui, ibui-binui, completing land, mobility of rights, and NOP 38 (TAMA 38). The legal support is provided from early formulation stages through to the completion and delivery of the new apartments to its owners. Our firm is among the only firms in Israel to have successfully completed such projects (more than 130 projects) and delivering them to the developers or buyers. The firm’s accumulated expertise and experience in completing these projects has made it a leading firm on a national scale in this area of practice.

Real Estate Taxation
The firm has extensive experience and strategic perspective in all aspects of the various real estate taxation (acquisition, betterment, VAT) in varied real estate transactions, including the acquisition and sale of real estate properties, acquisition groups, urban renewal transactions (NOP 38 and pinui-binui), combination transactions, mobility of rights, and Real Estate Union transactions. The firm’s team collaborates and coordinates with different government entities to carry out such transactions in the most precise, financially accurate, and proper manner for its clients. The firm’s activities in this field are accompanied by pre-signature planning and, if required, pre-ruling decision making, reports, drafting of agreements, writing opinions, preparation of self-assessments, and representation in various proceedings and courts, including objection and appeal proceedings.

Planning and Zoning
This is an inseparable part of the firm’s activities. A profound understanding of this field can directly impact the characteristics of a real estate transaction. The firm provides ongoing support to owners and developers in the promotion of plans, managing objections, appeals, and supports preservation projects, expropriations, and changes in designation. At the same time, the firm provides comprehensive and professional legal advice and support to local and district planning and zoning committees, appeal committees, administrative courts, district courts, and the Supreme Court.