Hayut Greenberg, Law Firm

Hayut Greenberg, Law Firm is a boutique firm that specializes in civil-commercial law, crisis management and financial rehabilitation. The firm is considered to be a leader in the insolvency field and assists during complex processes and debt settlements of well-known companies from various fields of the industry. In the commercial area the firm provides ongoing assistance to large organizations. The longstanding firm tends to its private and business clients in a variety of proceedings, in the various courts and tribunals, while meticulously maintaining uncompromising service, professional excellence, a comprehensive legal perspective, thoroughness, and responsibility. One of the firm’s main practice areas is financial rehabilitation and insolvency with all of its various aspects, Assistance to Companies in Financial Distress and Private Debtors, corporate rehabilitation, bankruptcy proceedings, and complex debt restructuring. The firm’s uniqueness stems from its resourcefulness in creating out-of-court solutions, while utilizing negotiation strategies and alternative measures. Another significant Practice area is commercial litigation, where the firm represents commercial entities in various proceedings for resolving disputes and solving problems. Additionally, the firm is one of only four firms in Israel who represent the Labor Branch of the Ministry of Economy in criminal proceedings. 

The Human Aspect, Growing Out of the Crisis to Rehabilitation and Recovery

The firm’s uniqueness lies in the distinctive professional tools and human approach it provides to its clients, based on a broad perspective of each situation and all its aspects, and an understanding that clients facing a crisis are often at a sensitive and complex point, both professionally and personally. The firm is committed to providing clients with the right tools to emerge from the crisis stronger and to move toward a successful resolution and a better future.
In most cases, the firm’s clients successfully recover following the process and embark on a new path equipped with a strategic toolkit and valuable insights for achieving greater and more informed success. 

Professional and Comprehensive Perspective

Adv. Hayut Greenberg, takes an active and personal role in all aspects of the legal matters handled by the firm. She is personally involved throughout the entire process, from analyzing the situation and developing a strategy to implementing the action plan formulated.
The firm’s approach is to prioritize pre-litigation processes and rehabilitation efforts over liquidation, recognizing the importance of keeping control of the situation in the hands of the company and preventing further deterioration of its financial position.
In addition, Adv. Greenberg serves as a court-appointed officeholder in various insolvency proceedings before Israel’s District Courts. She also represents commercial creditors, individual and corporate debtors, as well as employees of companies undergoing insolvency proceedings. 

Adv. Hayut Greenberg, The Firm’s Owner

Over her 21 years of experience, the firm’s owner, Adv. Hayut Greenberg managed various insolvency proceedings in all of the field’s aspects. She serves as a court appointed officer of the court at various tribunals, and represents commercial lenders, companies and private debtors. The various proceedings in which she participated include companies from security and cleaning, retail, construction, fashion, high-tech industries, etc. Some of the cases in which she was involved in recent years: the collapse of “Vaniglia” ice cream chain, “Vendome” fashion group, the food giant “Tallas Food Industries”, the international franchise “Allen Carr”, “Jil Teichmann Lighting”, “Ambos” watches chain, “HaSushia” chain, The “LaGa’at Ba’Ochel” chain, the HaPo’el Tel Aviv soccer team, the Globus Max movie theaters chain, the kid’s fashion chain “MishMish”, the construction company “Ortam Sahar”, and others. In addition to her insolvency practice, she manages complex civil-commercial litigations in various courts. A professional legal team, with experience in public and private corporate law, works alongside Adv. Greenberg. 

Practice Areas

Corporate Rehabilitation, Insolvency

The firm has extensive legal and practical experience in advising and guiding companies in financial distress, even before they reach an “impasse.” This includes developing tailored arrangements with the company’s creditors, as well as with banking and non-bank financial institutions, including debt restructuring and partial debt write-offs, enabling the company to continue its operations without the need for legal proceedings or, where appropriate, as part of legal proceedings, depending on the circumstances, capabilities and needs of the company.

The firm has had numerous successes in managing insolvency proceedings in the courts, including a stay of proceeds applications and creditor arrangements. The firm provides personal and professional service from an understanding of the responsibility and commitment of the company and its shareholders towards various creditors, with the aim of navigating the company into a safe haven, with an emphasis on working in short time frames, availability and damage mitigation to the extent possible. 

Proceedings and Arrangement with Creditors

The firm is highly experienced in representing companies and individuals in financial rehabilitation and insolvency proceedings, during which the firm acts to achieve the best solution that will generate financial rehabilitation, maintaining operations, and eliminating debts. 

Representation of Employees in Companies Insolvency Proceedings

The firm tends to the employees throughout the process, from day one to its completion with the receiving of all the rights, and a complete solution along the way for the employees’ bureaucratic, procedural and financial needs. The firm’s experience and expertise in these proceedings lead for a full execution of the employees’ rights, including even rights that employees are unaware of their entitlement (such as various expansion orders in the economy, etc.). In addition, the firm is also very experienced in the representation of companies and commercial lenders in such proceedings. 

Civil-Commercial Litigation

The firm represents corporations and individuals, in civil and commercial proceedings in various courts and tribunals, including in arbitrations and mediations. The firm is highly experienced in the formulation of effective and balanced dispute resolution strategies to the benefit of the client, including representation in out-of-court dispute resolutions, while understanding the needs of the clients, efficiently, reliably and professionally.

In recent years, Adv. Greenberg is the legal advisor of many large entities in the Israeli market, and her firm provides over-all legal support in day-to-day commercial mattes, including work relations, association laws and various processes.