Laor Gabay - Law Office

Laor Gabay – Law Office is a boutique firm that handles the fields of real estate, planning and zoning, and civil-commercial litigation. The firm holds unique expertise in the urban renewal field and is considered one of its kind in Jerusalem, by specializing in supporting tenants during evacuation and reconstruction (pinui-binui) projects. It even holds the city’s record for the commercial and legal returns provided to the tenants it represents in the various projects, including evacuation and reconstruction, NOP 38/1 (retrofit and reconstruction), and NOP 38/2 (demolition and reconstruction). Over the years, the firm has managed to provide its clients with exceptional returns, with some even receiving added spaces to their properties 40, 60, and even 80 square meters at times.
The firm’s partners place an emphasis on the personal and professional attention each tenant receives and, therefore, accompanies a limited number of projects at any given time, with the objective of providing the appropriate attention for their clients. As a result, an optimal ratio of a team of lawyers working with a founding partner on each project is constantly maintained compared to the total number of projects the firm supports.

A Humane and Personal Approach; Specializing in Supporting Tenants

The firm was founded by Advocates Yaniv Laor and Ariel Gabay, both worked for some of Israel’s leading law firms. The two embrace a different, more humane and personal approach, identifying the most precise legal service for each client, combined with out-of-the-box thinking, with the objective of helping them in achieving their goals, whether legal, business, or personal.
Over the past decade, the firm has experienced impressive growth in the field of urban renewal and is now considered as one of Israel’s most prominent firms in this industry, supporting about 50 projects, including evacuation and reconstruction, NOP 38/2, and NOP 38/1.The firm’s expertise is evident in the fact that it is among the few to have actually completed and delivered such projects. Most of the firm’s projects are located in Jerusalem, with others located in Tel Aviv, Kiryat Gat, Ashkelon, and Haifa.

The Only Firm in Jerusalem, and one of the few in the Country, That Represents Government Entities in the Field of Urban Renewal

Laor Gabay Law Office was chosen twice, in a public tender, to provide legal counsel and support in the field of urban renewal to “Iftach” – Kiryat Gat’s Urban Renewal Authority, over a period of about six years.
The firm was also chosen, by the Jerusalem Municipality, to provide legal opinions, including individual legal advice, in the field of urban renewal to any resident of the city who submits inquiries to the “Marom Association” (a subsidiary of the Jerusalem Municipality).
In addition, Adv. Laor, who lectures and publishes articles on urban renewal, was invited by both the Jerusalem Urban Renewal Authority and the National Urban Renewal Authority to give a series of lectures, in recognition of his unique expertise and experience in the field.
Adv. Gabay was appointed as a member of the Bar Association’s Urban Renewal Committee, Jerusalem District, and was also appointed as the Deputy Chair of the Bar Association’s National Urban Renewal Committee.

Fighting for Every Square Meter on the Tenants Behalf – Uncompromising Legal and Commercial Expertise Which Creates Optimal Results

The legal support provided by the firm is comprehensive, transparent, and conservative in a manner that protects the tenants’ legal interests in the best possible way. However, the commercial support and the desire to maximize results for homeowners, from the work perspective that the firm work for the tenants and not the developer, are what differentiate the firm from the rest.
The firm stands out in its groundbreaking approach and provides clients, time and time again, with the highest commercial returns in the market by conducting real developer tenders, transparent and democratic, during which homeowners choose the companies to compete, and the firm carries out effective negotiations with uncompromising business strategies on their behalf, all the way to obtaining the desired results. At the end of the process, it is only the homeowners who choose the developer they wish to carry out the project.

Adv. Yaniv Laor, Founding Partner

Adv. Laor specializes in urban renewal and holds vast experience in supporting complex real estate transactions. He accompanies combination transactions, evacuation and reconstruction as well as NOP 38 transaction, sales transaction, acquisition group, etc. He also lectures in the field of entrepreneurship and real estate in colleges across the country and publishes articles in the field of urban renewal.

Adv. Ariel Gabay, Founding Partner

Adv. Gabay specializes in managing civil and commercial litigation cases before all tribunals, including arbitration and mediation procedures, alongside his real estate expertise. In addition, Adv. Gabay provides comprehensive consultation to companies and businesses of all kinds about work relations, contracts, and mergers and acquisitions matters.

Solving Complex Commercial Problems

The firm is characterized by creative thinking and finding tailored solutions, even in the most complex commercial cases, with the objective of executing projects, while creating a consensus with the necessary compromise and full transparency.
Thus, for instance, the firm represents a rights owner to a roof in an NOP 38/2 project in Tel Aviv, upholds the rights and privileges of seniors and the disabled in a large evacuation and reconstruction project in Jerusalem’s Armon HaNaziv neighborhood, and established a unique collaboration with the legal department of WIZO in an NOP 38/1 project on King David St.
It also provided a creative legal solution in an urban renewal (evacuation and reconstruction) project in Jerusalem, where several refusing tenants, owners of ground-floor apartments, had illegally annexed public areas to their private units over the years.
The firm represented a non-profit organization (a synagogue) in an NOP 38/2 project in the Talbiya neighborhood, and currently represents business owners involved in an urban renewal project in Kiryat HaYovel.
In addition, it developed a unique and balanced mechanism for allocating benefits in an urban renewal project in Beit HaKerem, where a significant portion of the subunits are formally registered as storage rooms - some of which are actually used as residences, others for storage, and some as offices.

Availability and Service Above all

As the only Jerusalem firm to specialize in urban renewal, with the largest urban renewal team in the capital, the firm provides unmatched personal services with full availability, every time and everywhere.
All urban renewal cases handled by the firm are directly overseen by one of the two founding partners, alongside a dedicated team of lawyers who specialize exclusively in urban renewal. This structure ensures that residents receive the highest quality representation from exceptionally experienced and skilled legal professionals.
The firm maintains a high level of Availability, including a WhatsApp group for each project that connects the residents’ committee with the founding partner and the leading attorney overseeing the project. An additional WhatsApp group is created for all apartment owners, ensuring direct and ongoing communication with the firm.Each project benefits from close, continuous collaboration with Jerusalem’s leading urban renewal team. This team supports every stage of the process and includes attorneys, interns, and an administrative staff, working together to provide residents with a comprehensive and seamless service experience.