Nava Hans - Law Office

Nava Hans Law Firm is a boutique office specializing in taxation, white-collar offences and money laundering. The firm represents corporations and individuals in cases that require the resolution of complex legal and financial issues. The firm was founded by Attorney Nava Hans in 2021 and specializes in large-scale and complex cases, including the representation of certified public accountants, attorneys, and tax advisors throughout the entire criminal-legal process: from accompaniment of investigations from their inception, representation in detention proceedings, and advocacy before judicial tribunals. The firm advises and represents its clients in a wide range of cases, including fraud, breach of trust, money laundering, and tax evasion - offenses under the Income Tax Ordinance, the Real Estate Taxation Law, the Value Added Tax Law (VAT), the Customs Ordinance, and the Insolvency and Economic Rehabilitation Law.
Among the firm’s clients are accounting firms and tax advisory offices. The firm’s main office is located in Herzliya Pituach, with an additional branch operating in Rosh Pina, focusing on providing legal assistance to business owners in northern Israel whose businesses were damaged during the Iron Swords War.

Attorney Nava Hans, Founder and Owner

The firm is headed by Attorney Nava Hans, who has been licensed to practice law in Israel since 2000 and in New York since 2004. Nava began her distinguished legal career as a pre-intern in the field of criminal law under the Honorable Judge Moshe Shamai at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court . She subsequently completed her legal internship at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court under the late Honorable Judge Yehudit Amsterdam, who presided over a broad range of white-collar offenses, including tax offenses, securities violations, fraud, bribery, and related crimes.
In 2000 Adv. Hans began working at the Israel Tax Authority in the Legal Department as a prosecutor and legal advisor at the Tel Aviv Investigations Income Tax Office. In 2007, she transferred to the Civil Division of the State Attorney’s Office in the Tel Aviv District, within the Fiscal (Civil Tax) Department. In 2010, she established the Prosecutions Department within the Legal Division of the Israel Tax Authority, Central District. Under her leadership, the department handled tax offenses, conducted pre-indictment hearings, filed indictments, and closed cases. In addition, Adv. Hans also served as a legal advisor to investigations involving tax offenses and money laundering. In this role, she accompanied several joint investigative task forces and drafted legal opinions. Furthermore, she provided ongoing legal counsel throughout all stages of investigations, including the pre-investigation phase. She also lectured in inspectors’ courses, economic enforcement courses for the police and the State Attorney’s Office, and drafted examination materials in civil and criminal taxation. Concurrently, she served for over a decade as an investigator and prosecutor for the Council of Tax Advisors.
In terms of education, Adv. Hans holds a Bachelor’s degree in Criminology from Bar-Ilan University, which she completed with honors, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), and a Master’s degree in Commercial Law (LL.M.).

An Attorney “From Within the System”

Adv. Hans transitioned to private practice after 20 years of service in senior positions within Israel’s tax enforcement system. Over the course of her years in public service, she gained an in-depth understanding of the system, such that no one knows its methods and tactics better than she does. This intimate familiarity with the “other side” guarantees Adv. Hans’s clients that if there is anyone capable of reducing their liability to the minimum, it is she.

Professionalism, Care and Devotion

Alongside her extensive expertise and experience on both sides, Adv. Hans is committed to turning over every possible stone on behalf of her clients - whether by identifying creative angles in each case, locating legal support for the client’s position within statutory law, or leveraging her extensive professional connections to reach a humane and pragmatic settlement.
Beyond her high level of professionalism, Adv. Hans embraces a compassionate and attentive approach, rooted in her understanding of the power of enforcement mechanisms and the sense of persecution and oppression they may instill in those unfortunate enough to become their targets.

Prominent Cases

The Black Diamond Affair - Representation of a courier against whom an indictment was filed for 241 diamond smuggling incidents on behalf of a large and well-known diamond company. The defendant was also charged with concealing income of approximately NIS 1 million that he received and failed to report to the Israel Tax Authority.
The defendant was initially represented by other attorneys and had confessed during his interrogations to committing the alleged offenses, which necessitated a creative legal strategy. This strategy ultimately led to the filing of an amended indictment that enabled a significantly reduced sentence. With the firm’s assistance, the defendant was sentenced to one year of actual imprisonment and a fine of NIS 60,000, despite the fact that the diamonds transferred were worth millions of U.S. dollars.

Convicted of Money Laundering of NIS 74 million and Regained Luxury Vehicles - Representation of a construction company owner who was accused of money laundering of NIS 74 million in order to conceal income due to encountering financial difficulties. According to the lenient indictment the office has reached, additional charges against the wife and children of the defendant were dropped as NIS 300,000 were confiscated from him in the beginning of the investigation for the benefit of the state. In Return, the state has returned to him three prestigious vehicles that worth millions of shekels.

The Toto Fraud Affair - A case that erupted in the media after three Toto employees were suspected of altering results and fraudulently obtaining NIS 5 million. The fraud was carried out by a Toto employee who managed to alter betting slip results using the Toto computer system so that, for several minutes, the displayed results did not reflect reality. During this time, Defendants 2 and 3 - who are represented by our firm and who worked at Toto during part of the relevant period - assisted in redeeming the winnings in cash at betting stations, NIS 6,000 at each station, accumulating, according to the indictment, to approximately NIS 5.1 million.
The offenses included conspiracy to commit a felony, obtaining property by aggravated fraud, unauthorized access to computer material for the purpose of committing another offense, theft by an employee, fraud and breach of trust, false entries in corporate documents, and money laundering. Our firm reached a lenient plea agreement with the State Attorney’s Office after highlighting weaknesses in the evidence against our clients and their relatively minor role compared to Defendant 1. Under the agreement, the offense amount was reduced to NIS 1,500,000.
The defendants were sentenced to imprisonment to be served as community service (with the state agreeing that if they underwent treatment and a probation officer recommended community service, it would consent), in addition to an agreement that each would repay NIS 320,000 and pay a fine of NIS 100,000.