Koton Yair & Co. law office

Koton Yair & Co. law office is among the leading boutique law firms in Israel, specializing in various aspects of real estate. The firm has extensive activity in acquisition groups and urban renewal (NOP 38 and Evacuation-Building). Founded by attorneys Yoav Yair and Elad Koton, the firm has experienced impressive and consistent growth throughout its 8 years of operation due to the firm’s team handling substantial projects and establishing a professional reputation.
The firm’s activity encompasses all areas of real estate, including acquisition groups, combination transactions, urban renewal, real estate taxation, complex transactions in Israel and abroad, and more. The firm’s founders, Adv. Yoav Yair and Adv. Elad Koton, have extensive experience in real estate transactions, including long-term and complex transactions such as land acquisition, and through all stages of project development to completion. Over the years, they have gained considerable knowledge and expertise in managing, guiding, and handling complex real estate transactions, and providing legal assistance to both entrepreneurial companies and property rights holders.
The firm provides legal support to its clients throughout all phases of the deal, starting from preliminary checks, planning the deal’s structure, support and management of the negotiation process, drafting of all contract agreements, purchasing the rights to the land, drafting of the consultants’ agreements, and the appointment of the officials in the project, through the banking support agreements for the financing of the project, support of the planning and licensing stages, drafting sales agreements and ending with arranging the registration of rights at the end of each project.
The firm’s team promotes self-construction projects by landowners, legal support of acquisition groups, profitable real estate transactions, commercial lease agreements, planning and construction, and more. Before establishing the firm, the founders worked as lawyers in leading law firms in Israel, gaining practice in representing clients in all aspects of real estate transactions.
The firm’s activities are based on expertise and familiarity, creative and flexible thinking while ensuring control of the handling partner in all aspects of the project under their legal management, combined with a young and fresh atmosphere and a professional service committed to the wishes and needs of each client. The firm emphasizes providing uncompromising, available, efficient, high-quality, and professional legal services to all of the firm’s clients, from potential to large clients.

The Partners

Adv. Yoav Yair, Partner and Founder
Attorney Yair has extensive experience in the legal representation of large and complex acquisition groups and guiding entrepreneurs and residents in urban renewal projects. He also specializes in developing financing agreements and banking guidance, real estate taxation, international real estate transactions, combination agreements, and performance agreements. In addition, Attorney Yair provides ongoing consultation to commercial entities and companies and deals with asset management and appraisal.

Adv. Elad Koton, Partner and Founder
Attorney Koton has gained profound experience in leading complex real estate transactions and specializes in supporting and advising acquisition groups and groups of buyers, guiding urban renewal projects, drafting contractor agreements, handling combination transactions, guiding self-construction projects, projects for the addition and expansion of balconies, and more. Attorney Koton has been involved for many years in some of the largest and most intricate real estate projects, guiding his clients throughout the project, from initial contract stages and drafting foundational project documents to project completion and registration of rights in land registry offices. Alongside legal representation, he contributes his extensive experience to his clients and advises on various issues related to real estate project development, including commercial issues arising during the project.

Real Estate Transactions

In addition to the firm’s main areas of activity, it has extensive experience in accompanying companies and private entities, including supporting self-build transactions, combination transactions, urban renewal transactions, sales and purchase transactions of real estate assets between individuals, purchase transactions from a contractor, gift transactions, rental agreements, agreements with consultants and service providers, loan agreements, wills and inheritances, registration of condominiums and more.

Purchasing Groups for Land Acquisition:

The firm assists purchasing groups in joint purchase transactions for the enhancement of real estate. The firm ensures the safety and quality of transactions for its clients and accompanies them throughout the entire process - from before joining the transaction to completing the project.

Urban Renewal

As part of the prevailing trend in the real estate market in Israel, Koton Yair & Co. emphasizes urban renewal transactions and accompanies numerous projects, both as legal representatives of residents and as legal representatives of entrepreneurs in the field. Representation is provided with personal attention to each client, care for their unique needs, availability, professionalism, and prompt service. In each project, the firm provides its clients with comprehensive and thorough legal coverage.

Purchaser Groups for the Purchase of Land

The firm assists groups of buyers in joint purchase transactions for the needs of real estate improvement. The firm ensures the safety and quality of the transactions for its clients and accompanies them throughout the entire process - before joining the transaction until the completion of the project.

Construction of Balconies/Renovation of Facades

The firm provides comprehensive legal support in projects to build new balconies or expand existing ones, as well as projects of building facade renovation. The firm’s team provides support to both apartment owners and entrepreneurs and is involved in all stages of planning and execution.

Real Estate Abroad

The firm has a unique specialization in accompanying commercial and private entities, groups, partnerships, and individuals in real estate transactions overseas. The firm’s clients benefit from a complete service throughout the purchase/investment process and beyond.
Additionally, and as part of the range of legal services in the civil-commercial field, the team offers a full range of legal services associated with managing businesses for clients, including the establishment and dissolution of companies and partnerships, allocation of shares, partnership agreements, franchise agreements, contractual agreements with suppliers and service providers, employment agreements for employees and managers, and more.