Olgan, Rub & Co.

Olgan, Rub & Co. is a boutique firm specializing in energy and utilities. The firm is considered to be one of Israel’s prominent firms in this field, in terms of both the number of practicing attorneys and the scale of operations. One of the firm’s founders, Adv. Nadav Olgan, served until 2022 as the managing partner of the Energy and Utilities Department at Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano & Co., and is considered to be one of the pioneers renewable energy in Israel.

The firm’s team has a deep and unique understanding of the energy market, enabling it to identify diverse business opportunities for its clients, and to provide comprehensive solutions that integrate both legal and commercial insights. Currently, the firm includes 19 employees, among them 17 associates and partners.

The firm accompanies a considerable share of Israel’s largest energy transactions, including groundbreaking transactions for purchasing green electricity (generated by renewable energy facilities) and the the construction of various energy production and storage facilities, including via pioneering technologies. The firm maintains the highest standards of professionalism and service in order to provide its clients with the best representation, constantly aiming to assist them in achieving their goals.

Diverse and Unique Services

Olgan, Rub & Co. offers diverse and unique services in order to maximize the economic benefit of its clients. The firm’s team has vast experience and a unique specialization in energy and infrastructure projects from steering, initiation and procurement to construction and commercial operation.

The firm has unique experience in accompanying Israel’s biggest energy consumers, starting from an analysis of the energy needs and of the best actions they should carry out moving forward , up to the execution phase which includes the purchasing of discounted electricity from power providers, building power generation facilities utilizing renewable energy and natural gas (co-generation), building energy storage facilities, conversion to natural gas, building EV charging stations, buying fuels and more.

Our team also accompanies electricity suppliers, both conventional and virtual transactions for the sale and purchase of the electricity, in natural gas acquisition and transportation transactions and various bidders in public tenders (including BOT and PFI tenders).

Accompanying International and Local Entities

The firm is active within a wide spectrum of activities within the energy sector, accompanying a wide variety of international and local entities, including developers and entrepreneurs, industrial facilities, yielding real-estate companies, municipal entities and construction, operation and maintenance contractors. In addition, the firm represents dozens of municipalities (including Moshavim and Kibbutzim) in collective purchasing organizations and agricultural cooperatives.

Practice Areas

Renewable Energies
The firm provides legal assistance for energy entrepreneurs, corporations and consumers, including representation in the drafting and formulation of agreements for the operation of renewable energy power generation facilities in various technologies, including PV, storage (PV accompanied and stand-alone), thermo-solar, wind, biomass and bio-gas. The firm’s clients benefit from legal counsel and representation across the entire project lifecycle, starting from the initiation and development stage, and up to its commercial operation and maintenance.

Representing of Energy Consumers
Ongoing legal counsel for industrial factories, yielding real-estate firms, utilities and communication companies, Kibbutzim, Moshavim and municipal authorities in diverse energy transactions including proceedings for the acquisition of electricity from power providers, purchasing and converting to natural gas, building PV power generation facilities, building EV charging stations, building natural gas based power generation facilities, building energy storage facilities, energy efficiency and more.

Regulation
The firm has unique expertise in energy market regulation, and deep professional familiarity with its regulators, including the Electricity Authority, the Natural Gas Authority, the Ministry of Energy including the Fuels Administration and the Oil Supervisor, the Environmental Protection Ministry and the Ministry of Finance.

Public Tenders
Comprehensive legal assistance to local and foreign entities in the framework of various public tenders in the fields of energy and utilities. The firm’s team has vast experience and extensive knowledge in accompanying bidders and tender issuers in public and private tenders and is involved in numerous tenders.

Founding Partners

Adv. Nadav Olgan
Adv. Nadav Olgan is considered as one of Israel’s leading energy and utilities lawyers and one of the pioneers of the renewable energy industry. Nadav specializes in representing energy consumers, including industrial factories, yielding real-estate companies, municipal authorities, Kibbutzim and also regularly representing leading entrepreneurs and developers from the renewable energy field, in all aspects of the construction and operation of projects and in electricity buying transactions. Nadav has a unique specialization in the regulatory regime governing the Israeli energy market representing, counseling and accompanying clients vis-à-vis of all the relevant authorities enabling him to provide solutions to extremely complex commercial and legal issues in the field of energy and utilities. Nadav holds an M.B.A. with a specialization in business finance and entrepreneurship from the Hebrew University, an LL.B. from the Hebrew University, and an additional B.A., History and Political Science, from the Hebrew University. Nadav has been admitted into the Israel Bar Association since 2008.

Adv. Gal Rub
Adv. Gal Rub is one of the prominent lawyers in the Israeli energy field, accompanying clients on an ongoing basis, among others a significant share of Israel’s major electricity and natural gas consumers. Gal has deep familiarity with the energy economy, with a particular expertise in representing energy consumers in diverse energy-related transactions (acquisition of electricity, conversion to natural gas, construction of EV charging stations, construction of production and storage facilities and more), including industrial factories, yielding properties companies, communication companies, municipal authorities and Kibbutzim. In addition, Gal accompanies energy entrepreneurs on an ongoing basis in relation to their activities in the fields of electricity production, storage and distribution. Gal holds an LL.B. with a minor in management from Tel Aviv University and an M.B.A. (specialization in finance) from IDC Herzliya. Gal has been admitted into the Israel Bar Association since 2012.