Miller & CO., Law Office

Miller & Co. is one of Israel’s leading law firms in the fields of real estate, planning and construction, urban renewal, real estate taxation, and real estate litigation. The office has extensive experience and expertise in these areas, accumulated since its establishment in 1996, and it operates in Tel Aviv and Haifa.

Its activities are founded on three core principles: professionalism, efficiency, and loyalty. Serving as legal counsel to numerous real estate projects of varying scale throughout Israel, the practice represents clients in complex legal and planning proceedings.

In recent years, Miller & Co. has been ranked as a leading firm in the fields of real estate, planning and construction, real estate taxation, and urban renewal by the BdiCode, Duns 100, and The Legal 500 ranking guides.

The extensive experience accumulated over decades enables the team to advise and represent clients in complex legal proceedings, large-scale projects, and significant transactions throughout Israel, both in metropolitan areas and in the periphery, involving both private and state-owned land, as well as in extensive international activities.

Practice Areas

The principal areas of practice are real estate, planning and construction, real estate litigation, real estate taxation, and urban renewal. Expertise and long-term legal counsel are provided to real estate companies, including public and private companies, government corporations, and municipal corporations, as well as to companies whose primary business activities are outside the real estate sector but which require legal advice and services relating to real estate in Israel and abroad.

Clients benefit from ongoing legal counsel and representation, supported by a full range of real estate legal services for residential projects, income-producing properties, office buildings, commercial properties, assisted living facilities, and industrial complexes. Comprehensive legal support is provided from the earliest stages of a transaction, including due diligence and feasibility reviews, acquisition advice and representation before planning authorities and tax authorities, and the drafting of all required legal agreements.

A strong reputation has been built through the representation of contractors and developers throughout every stage of planning and construction, as well as of companies and investors involved in income-producing properties in Israel and abroad, including all aspects of property development and value enhancement.

The practice also provides comprehensive legal and practical support in securing financing for these projects and investments.

Particular recognition has been earned for accompanying residential projects from their inception “on paper” through to delivery, including all required registrations and rights arrangements. Significant involvement in large- and medium-sized urban renewal projects includes representing development companies, construction companies, and large groups of apartment owners. This work encompasses projects carried out under government urban renewal frameworks as well as under the more limited frameworks of TAMA 38 and building-based urban renewal programs. In recent years, the firm’s founder, Adv. Yossi Miller, has also been involved in legislative initiatives relating to urban renewal, including the advancement of this important field in peripheral regions. Alongside its primary residential construction practice, the office maintains extensive activity in commercial construction, office developments, and assisted living facilities. Ongoing legal support is provided in lease transactions and other transactions involving commercial and office centers, including the drafting and management of tenders and litigation where required.

Miller & Co. possesses extensive knowledge and experience in planning and construction matters. Clients receive legal guidance in the initiation and approval of new zoning and building plans at various planning levels, including the rezoning and enhancement of development sites, consolidation and repartitioning (parcellation), applications for building permits, and related matters. The attorneys have extensive experience appearing before planning authorities, including in objection proceedings concerning plans and permits.

The practice also specializes in planning and construction litigation, including administrative petitions, claims seeking the cancellation of land expropriations, and compensation claims arising from such expropriations. Widely recognized for its strength in litigation, both in commercial law generally and in real estate law specifically, the office handles complex proceedings involving substantial monetary value and particularly sensitive matters. These include many years of successful representation of a leading Israeli insurance company in matters concerning the professional liability of real estate attorneys; representation of municipal corporations (economic development companies) and local authorities in large-scale claims connected with projects established or managed by them; representation of public and nationwide companies in complex litigation proceedings; and representation of private clients across a broad spectrum of legal disputes.

The practice appears before all courts, including the administrative courts and the Supreme Court. Clients are also represented before planning authorities, district appeals committees for planning and construction and for real estate taxation, and deciding appraisers in betterment levy proceedings.

A significant additional component of the office’s work is arbitration, both in representing clients and in conducting arbitration proceedings, where the parties to business disputes are primarily real estate companies, development and construction companies, and other corporations across a variety of sectors.

Clients are advised and represented in real estate taxation matters and receive support regarding the tax aspects of projects and transactions, from transaction structuring and related advisory services, through the preparation of professional legal opinions and reporting to the tax authorities, to representation in proceedings before the tax authorities.

Founder

Adv. Yossi Miller holds an LL.B. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been a member of the Israel Bar Association since 1993. For many years, he has served on the district real-estate and planning-and-construction committees of the Israel Bar Association. He has lectured for several years on complex real estate matters within the LL.M. program of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa, in real estate continuing-education programs of the Israel Bar Association, and in professional forums throughout Israel.

Clients

The office represents public and private companies, government companies and municipal corporations, development companies and construction companies, as well as numerous private clients across the various sectors and disciplines of the real estate industry described above.