Keren Cohen Blacharski & Co.

Keren Cohen Blackarski & Co. is a boutique law firm specializing in real estate and urban renewal. The firm is ranked at the top of the real estate, urban renewal and real estate finance rankings of the leading ranking companies.
The firm’s team, headed by its senior partners, Adv. Keren Cohen Blacharski, Adv. Udi Rubens-Vakil, Adv. Roi Gafni and Adv. Ori Yanco, has an excellent professional reputation, vast knowledge and extensive experience and it represents public and private companies, institutions, investors, landowners and apartment owners, and accompanies complex real estate transactions. The services include representation in sales and acquisition, asset-swap (“combination”) transactions, acquisition groups, real estate development and finance transactions. The professional reputation, accuracy and personal attention are the cornerstones of the firm’s work and enable clients to benefit from close professional assistance.

The Firm’s Departments

Real Estate Transactions
The department leads real estate transactions of all types, focusing on large and complex transactions. The firm has a particular specialization in accompanying developers and landowners in sale and/or acquisition transactions, facilitating combination transactions and contracting for construction services, with attention to planning, tax and business aspects, as to fully realize the property’s potential. The department also assists in aspects of the transaction’s finance, reviewing and selecting the best alternatives and customizing them to the transaction’s characteristic and the client’s needs.

Urban Renewal – A Major Area of Expertise

The firm’s urban renewal department is the leading department in Israel in accompanying urban renewal projects of every scale across the country.
Over the course of more than 20 years in this field, the firm has facilitated hundreds of urban renewal projects, of which more than 100 are already populated. The accumulated experience from projects with thousands of apartments, and vast commerce and employment areas, offers the firm extensive expertise in every aspect and stage of the project – from formulating the plan, through negotiations, taking care of residents and agreements, handling refusers, assistance before the authorities, finance and complete legal services until the new apartments are delivered. This accumulated experience enables the firm to provide practical solutions for complex situations and lead the processes with assurance and stability.
The department accompanies leading companies and apartment owners across Israel and maintains its rank as the industry leader by all of the ranking companies, and its position as the leader of the urban renewal field in general and Demolition and Reconstruction in particular in every urban renewal index. Owing to the longstanding experience of the firm’s founder, Adv. Keren Cohen Blach Blacharski, the firm actively participates in legislation proceedings in the Knesset committees on matters of urban renewal and is therefore the first to understand, implement and apply legislation amendments and use them to the advantage of its clients.
The partners and lawyers have vast legal knowledge and a deep understanding of unique needs of such projects, and they integrate a high level of professionalism with an attentive and personal service standard. One of the firm’s senior partners closely accompanies each of the projects.

Finance and Transactions – Tailored Financial Solutions for Real Estate Transactions

The finance department, headed by Adv. Carmel Noodler, represents banks, financial institutions, companies and private individuals in complex real estate finance transactions. The department specializes in tailoring creative solutions for the needs of every client and the characteristics of every transaction. The services include facilitation of bank finance transactions, non-bank finance transactions, bridge loan transactions, debt restructuring and ongoing legal assistance.
The firm’s team accompanies thousands of apartment owners and institutional clients, and is considered to be a leading professional entity owing to the combination of vast experience, commercial thinking and legal accuracy.
The firm provides services to some of Israel’s major corporations, including contractors, real estate companies, financial institutions, utilities, landowners and property owners, businesspersons and private individuals. The firm provides a broad and comprehensive umbrella of services that covers some of Israel’s largest and most complex projects.