Naschitz Brandes Amir & Co.

Naschitz Brandes Amir is one of Israel’s leading law firms. The longstanding and highly experienced firm has been providing diverse legal services in all of the civil and commercial law segments to its numerous clients, in Israel and abroad, for many years. Naschitz Brandes Amir’s partners and lawyers have vast legal knowledge and an extensive practical experience, which are characterized by innovation, openness, diligence and creativity and contribute to the firm’s extensive reputation.

Most of the firm’s lawyers operate from the main offices in Tel-Aviv and some from the Haifa offices. The firm employs about 180 lawyers, about 30 interns and pre-interns, and an administrative staff with about 75 employees. The firm has 64 partners.

During the firm’s years of operations, a wide-reaching practice was formulated in a broad spectrum of civil and commercial law topics. The firm’s commercial practice is extremely diverse and includes: representation of multinational corporations (including Fortune 500 companies), government agencies and large public companies, supporting high-tech and biotechnology start-ups, representation of VC funds, investment banks, commercial banks and more. The firm plays a major role in large and complex transactions, including unique commercial transactions, M&As, joint ventures and public issuances.

The firm has a wide-reaching litigation practice, which includes involvement in all types of insurance and commercial disputes, professional liability, medical malpractice, marine and aviation, product liability, securities, administrative litigation, local authorities, planning and building committees, labor law, banking, antitrust, white collar, environmental law and IP. The firm’s attorneys regularly appear before all of the Israeli courts and in arbitration, mediation and settlement procedures. In many cases, the firm was involved in the creation of important legal precedents. In addition to representation in courts, the firm counsels its clients on insurance (representation of insurance companies in commercial, regulatory and insurance matters), real-estate (complex commercial construction projects, urban renewal projects, national infrastructures and tenders, including BOT projects), and on all other aspects of civil law. Throughout all of its years of operation, the firm took an active part in various legislation initiatives in various areas such as – agriculture, securities, labor law, antitrust, taxation and more.

Commercial law

One of the cornerstones of the firm’s practice is the provision of comprehensive legal counsel to business entities throughout all stages of their development. In the framework of this activity, the firm’s lawyer partner with the clients to provide them with legal and business planning and solve various problems, such as all types of business contracting, employees, taxations, antitrust, regulatory affairs, administrative law, disputes (appearances before the courts, Bagatz, labor courts, mediation and arbitration), real-estate, planning and building, product liability and more. The firm’s staff has extensive expertise and experience in antitrust matters and is involved in a wide variety of cases before the Director General of the Antitrust Authority.

The firm was the pioneer in providing legal support for Israeli high-tech companies, and provided legal services for many high-tech and biotechnology companies throughout all of their development stages.

International Activities

Naschitz Brandes Amir has extensive experience in international operations, acquired both during business contracting on behalf of its Israeli clients and through the representation of international entities. The firm is one of Israel’s leaders in all aspects of issuances of Israeli companies abroad (representing both issuers and foreign underwriters). The firm is one of Israel’s leaders in the M&A area.

Litigation

The firm is one Israel’s leading law firm in all types of litigation, including torts and insurance, product liability, maritime and aviation law, commercial disputes, real-estate rights disputes, appropriations, planning and building, creditors arrangements and liquidations, labor law and administrative litigation. The firm’s attorneys appear every day before courts, in arbitrations and mediation, in commercial and civil cases of all scopes and types and in all levels of litigation cases.

Real-estate

The firm’s real-estate team has extensive experience in all types of transactions, including urban renewal (Pinui-Binui and Tama 38), planning and building, rezoning, supporting initiators and projects from every construction-related aspect, handling fees, charges, betterment charges, Israeli Lands Authority, appropriations and similar real-estate-related topics.

The firm supported and supports complex real-estate projects amounting to thousands of housing units and hundreds of thousands of square meters of office, commerce and industry spaces.

The firm strives for excellence at all levels. Many of its lawyers have advanced academic degrees from Israel and abroad and participate in diverse and various training activities, as lecturers and participants. The firm has extensive community service activities in voluntary legal service and contributions for education, welfare and culture causes. The partners and lawyers are active in the Israeli Bar Association, and involved in initiatives concerning the legal profession.