Goldman, Erlich, Edelstein, Avigad & Co.

Goldman, Erlich, Edelstein, Avigad & Co. is among Israel’s leading law firms in the fields of Real-Estate, Urban Renewal, Planning and Construction, Finance and Banking, Family Wealth Management, Litigation and Commercial law. Established in 1995, the firm strives for excellence and professional leadership, and is positioned today among Israel’s top law firms in its practice areas. Active in Israel and abroad, the firm specializes in complex and extensive legal cases, utilizing its unique business experience accumulated throughout years of cooperation with professionals from various legal and non-legal disciplines. The firm is known for its dynamism and creativity, combined with vast legal knowledge and experience.

About Us

The firm prides itself on its exceptionally close relationships with its clients, granting them comprehensive legal services with a personal touch. We feel that a good advocate fully identifies with his client’s needs, shares their moments of happiness, strives to relieve their sorrow, while prioritizing the client’s interests above all. Our diverse yet integrative practices enable us to provide holistic and synergetic legal counsel, observing each case from all angles. Our clients enjoy “preventive legal medicine”, using our ability to anticipate problems and provide advance solutions, thus enhancing their confidence and peace of mind. Each legal department is manned by talented and experienced advocates in their respective fields, working in full synergy. Out firm fosters a family spirit, while vigorously maintaining the highest professional standards.

Our Clients

Our firm serves a variety of Israeli clients, including leading construction companies, entrepreneurs, investors, real-estate owners, banks, insurance companies, funds, corporations from the pharmaceutics, diagnostic trade and service fields, and other private entities. Our firm also provides foreign residents and corporations with extensive representation regarding their assets and wealth in Israel. The professional multidisciplinary services granted to our clients, given with a genuine personal touch, have earned us a reputation of credibility and professionalism among clients and colleagues alike.

Our Practice Areas

Real-Estate – The firm is considered one of Israel’s leading firms in real-estate matters. The department possesses diverse in-depth experience handling planning and construction and real-estate issues, and provides its clients with comprehensive solutions in these practices, including taxation and funding. The department regularly represents entrepreneurs, contractors, investors and companies involved in high profile real-estate transactions in Israel and abroad. Among others, the firm specializes in complex real-estate transactions, real estate funds, combination transactions, acquisition groups, owner-builder associations and urban renewals.

Family Wealth Management – The firm is considered among Israel’s prominent law firms in this field. The department offers its clients a broad spectrum of solutions regarding international tax planning, safeguard of multinational assets, reducing risks and enhancing profit in assets and estates, domestic and international. The department supports, inter alia, the establishment and management of trusts and foreign companies, and manages purchase and holding of assets. Among the department’s clients are Israeli and foreign citizens, entities and trusts for family wealth management, donations and charities.

Urban Renewal - The Urban Renewal Department at Goldman, Ehrlich, Edelstein, Avigad & Co. represents entrepreneurs, contractors and apartment owners in urban renewal projects, such as NOP 38 (construction reinforcement), NOP 38/2 (demolition and construction) and “evacuation-construction” properties. The firm provides its clients with comprehensive solutions for such transactions, including the evaluation of legal feasibility, conducting legal negotiations toward signing the agreement – all while placing an emphasis on critical points, such as project planning and execution schedules, appropriate guarantees for tenants, project insurance and relations with the financing institution, addressing transaction taxation issues, handling project planning and construction issues, registration of client rights at the Land Registration Bureau, including condominium registration upon project completion.

Litigation – The firm provides comprehensive representation throughout all legal instances. Our legal team possesses creativity, innovation and professionalism, and are able to combine strategic planning on one hand and making necessary adaptations according to the case’s unique characteristics on the other. The department represents clients in all legal disciplines, including contracts law, tenders and insolvencies. Comprehensive representation is given to clients in the fields of real-estate, private property and real-estate taxation, supporting all their commercial and court related needs.

Planning and Construction - The department has extensive experience in promoting complex and prestigious real estate projects for leading real estate companies in Israel, real estate owners, entrepreneurs and investors. The department’s team of attorneys specialize in a wide range of planning and construction issues, including the promotion of outline plans and permits, urban renewal projects (evacuation-construction and NOP 38), betterment levies, representation in planning institutions and courts in all instances, expropriations, municipal taxation and overall comprehensive accompaniment of some of the largest real estate transactions. The planning and building department at our firm works in full synergy with the rest of the firm’s departments and provides comprehensive legal advice for all its clients’ activities. The harmonious and personal cooperation between the departments enables support in all aspects of clients’ activity and plays a vital role in meeting the clients’ needs.

Finance and Banking – The firm provides a myriad of services to leading creditors including: banks, insurance companies, funds, financial institutions and borrowers, including: public companies, private companies, partnerships and initiatives involved in large-scaled transactions. The firm covers all aspects of financing and collaterals, such as senior debt loans, bank loans (including construction and B.O.T), equity financing and mezzanine loans, securities creation, syndication and creditors agreements.

Commercial Law – The firm represents a wide range of corporations and companies, providing them with ongoing counsel and representation regarding events in a company’s life cycle, alongside labor law legal advice. The department’s clientele is comprised of corporations from various fields and disciplines, including public and government-owned companies, private companies and partnerships. The firm supports its clients in every business step.