Gindi Caspi & Co.

Gindi Caspi & Co., The largest and leading firm in Israel in real estate, planning, and construction, with decades of experience in complex transactions, is ranked among the top-tier firms by all rating companies. Led by senior partners and founders, Attorneys Yaacov Gindi and Ziv Caspi, the team handles real estate transactions, planning and construction, building clearances, zoning changes, agricultural land development, real estate taxation, financing, and urban renewal. They manage everything from program formation to dealing with authorities, representing objections, and drafting sales contracts until project completion and registration. Attorney Ziv Caspi chairs the Central Committee for Urban Renewal at the Israel Bar Association, serves as an arbitrator at the Israeli Institute for Business Arbitration, and is recognized as a Leading Individual in the Legal 500. He also leads panels at national real estate conferences annually.

Firm’s Departments

Transactions: The department leads all real estate transactions, focusing on complex deals and representing entrepreneurs and landowners in purchase, sale, combination, and construction orders. It considers planning, taxation, and business aspects to maximize land potential. The department also supports the financial aspects of transactions, finding the best alternatives to suit each project’s nature and the clients’ needs.
Planning and Construction: The department provides legal services to developers, contractors, property owners, and private clients in plan approval procedures, obtaining building permits, and representation before planning and construction committees at local, district, and national levels. It handles objections to plans and permits, zoning changes, eviction-building, and new neighborhood projects, maximizing land rights utilization. The department specializes in claims for diminution in value (s. 197 of the Taxation Law), appeals for improvement levies, and expropriation procedures, representing clients before planning institutions, appeal committees, and courts.
Urban Renewal: The largest and leading department in Israel for large-scale urban renewal projects. Recognizing urban renewal as crucial since the early 2000s, the firm now oversees many of the largest projects in Israel, totaling tens of thousands of housing units and commercial spaces. The department consistently maintains its top rating in urban renewal, evacuation, and reconstruction according to Madlan, Real Estate Center indices, and other rating companies.
Financing and Transactions: Responsible for financing real estate transactions, including legal advice to developers, contractors and buyers in real estate purchase transactions and support agreements for establishing large-scale real estate projects. Representation before banking and non-banking financial entities, matching source and type to the nature and type of transaction, accompanying complex transactions such as source transactions, and restitution transactions with the Israel Land Authority.
Contracts and First-Hand Transactions: Provides support to developers and contractors in residential, commercial, and employment projects, accompanying projects from the planning stages to completion, including registration of a condominium and the registration of buyers’ rights.
Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Handling civil, commercial, and administrative litigation cases, with a specialization in real estate disputes, such as disputes arising from sales agreements; between partners in real estate; dissolutions of co-ownership in real estate; between contractors and those who order the projects; claims against unwilling apartment owners; between entrepreneurial companies for apartment buyers; and disputes over possession and use of real estate, and disputes from the field of administrative law with an emphasis on tender laws and insolvency laws.
Real Estate Taxation: Deals with the tax aspects of real estate transactions, including sale/purchase transactions, combination transactions, and urban renewal, to reduce tax consequences in real estate transactions, and represents in acquisitions and before legal courts.
Municipal Taxation: Accompanies projects and legal issues before the local authorities and committees in matters including legal support for proceedings and appeals before municipal authorities, representation before legal courts, including property tax matters, development levies, sewage levies, and legal aspects of municipal taxation, analysis of relevant municipal bylaws, and ensuring the legality of local authority payment demands.
Israel Land Authority (ILA): The department handles everything related to the Israel Land Authority, including accompanying sales and purchase transactions on private lands, and lands managed by ILA, maximizing client rights according to ILA decisions, including the Council of Israel Land Authority decisions, ILA regulations, and management decisions. The department handles ILA issues for right holders, including long-term leases, farmers, transactions with kibbutzim and moshavim, homesteads, auxiliary farms, return transactions, ownership transfers, zoning changes, and utilization.
Registration: Responsible for the registration aspect related to any real estate transaction and accompanying a real estate project, such as registration of condominiums, registration of ownership/lease rights, mortgages, easements, warning notes, handling objections and appeals against decisions of the Land Registry Office.

Public Activity

The firm engages in various public activities, including government meetings, participation in Knesset committees, chairing Israel Bar Association committees, and delivering lectures at universities and conferences. It drafts and amends legislation such as the Evacuation-Building Organizers Law and the Government Authority for Urban Renewal Law. The firm’s staff also lectures lawyers, accountants, appraisers, brokers, students, and businesspeople.

The Academic Department

The office believes that to lead, it must stay updated with legislative innovations, investing resources in academic activities. Its weekly bulletin, “The Justice Bulletin,” reviews significant court rulings, and an annual booklet is distributed to tens of thousands of industry professionals. The firm is the chief editor of the real estate bulletin for the Israeli Institute for Business Arbitration. Staff attend enrichment lectures to deepen knowledge and manage discussions. This tradition has led to delivering lectures at the Israel Bar Association, broadcast to all Israeli lawyers. The firm’s partners and senior lawyers are sought-after lecturers in academia and professional tribunals.