Ron Berant & Co., Law Offices

Ron Berant & Co. was founded in 1993 and is a prominent law firm regarding real estate and urban renewal, administrative law, civil law, commercial law and litigation. The firm reached its leading position due to its professional excellence, and benefits from its clients longstanding loyalty. The firm’s founder and manager, Adv. Ron Berant, is one of the senior and most esteemed lawyers in the legal community and has over 30 years of experience.
The firm’s team, headed by Adv. Ron Berant and the partners Shalom Alon, Miri Zohar and Itay Fried, coordinates a team of lawyers, senior planning and zoning consultants, interns and a devoted administrative team, which prioritizes the client’s interests, while providing an excellent legal service and personal attention. The partner Adv. Shalom Alon coordinates the firm’s operations in Tel Aviv. The partner Adv. Miri Zohar heads the firm’s properties department. The partner Adv. Itay Fried manages the firm’s urban renewal practice. The firm’s team has vast experience, managing Israel’s most complex transactions and cases. During its years of operations, the firm’s service is professional, creative, available and efficient in all the legal, commercial and human aspects, and thus provides its clients with the full professional toolbox. The firm accompanies private entities, developers from Israel and abroad, private and public corporations, municipal and government corporations and authorities and more. The firm is ranked as a leading firm in various practice areas by well-known legal rankings and is widely recognized by the legal community.

Practice Areas

Real Estate, Urban Renewal and Planning and Zoning 
This department is one of the largest and leading in Israel, accompanying construction developers and contractors, entrepreneurs, purchasing groups, and private entities in diverse large-scale projects. The firm accompanies large-scale residential, commercial, hotels and agriculture projects in scales of tens of thousands of sq.m. and hundreds of apartments, including complex transactions, in NIS hundreds of millions, nationwide, and has been involved in the largest transactions in the Haifa and Northern Israel region, and in other areas of Israel. The firm also accompanies investors from Israel and abroad and private and business entities in sale and rentals transactions of various and diverse magnitudes.
The firm provides comprehensive services, from due diligence stages, negotiations, signing the deal and its legal documents, planning proceedings, contracting with the relevant people (consultants, contractors, suppliers, planners etc.), financial support proceedings, sale and rental agreements, and registration of the of the rights in the Land Registrar, including registration of multioccupancy houses. The firm also manages appeals and administrative petitions on planning matters and objections and appeals on matters of taxation, betterment charges and city tax, and he recorded numerous precedents and successes in these fields. The firm is a leader regarding urban renewal, Pinui-Binui, Tama 38 (reinforcement and expansion), Tama 38 (demolition and reconstruction) and combinations of these, and has vast experience in numerous projects and transactions, accompanying both developers and rights’ owners.
The firm achieved precedents in the courts and in various appeal committees, that serve as milestones regarding real estate and planning and zoning. The firm represented the owners in the only proceeding that was discussed in the Supreme Court in disputes vis-à-vis an objector residents (Civil Appeal 3511/13 Regina Schwartzberger vs. Shalom Marin). The binding precedents that were set in the framework of this ruling constitute a formative event that transformed the urban renewal segment in general and Pinui-Binui projects in particular, including legislation amendments (including amendments that the firm promoted) and is regularly cited in rulings of the various courts and in the relevant literature.
The firm has been accompanying over 200 Tama 38 projects, most of which have been completed and delivered and many projects at advanced execution stages. Moreover, the firm accompanies over 70 Pinui-Binui complexes across Israel, that would include over 30,000 apartments, commerce areas and other areas. The firm is one of the few firms in Israel that handled Pinui-Binui completed and populated projects (almost 1,000 apartments). The firm is ranked in all the major rankings as one of Israel’s leading firms in every subsegment of the urban renewal field, both in the representation of developers and in the representation of rights owners.

Commercial Law 
The firm supports a variety of corporations (including private and public companies, municipal and government corporations, non-profits, cooperatives, various partnerships etc.) and private entities in a wide variety of transactions, and accompanies the required activities from the establishment and incorporation stage: founders agreements, establishing the required corporation and relevant AoA, sale agreements, franchises, distribution, cooperations, contracting agreements, public tenders, employment agreements, various contractual systems and more. Owing to the team vast experience, knowledge and business networks, numerous business opportunities, partnerships and developments are created, regarding both specific transactions and formulation of follow-up transactions and ventures.

Civil Law 
The firm provides full legal services including contracts law, title law, wills and inheritances, lasting power of attorney, notary services and more, and offers legal counsel and comprehensive representation tailored to the clients’ needs, with provision of appropriate and creative solutions for furthering the clients’ interests.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution 
The firm’s team has vast experience in complex civil, commercial and administrative litigation cases in all of the courts and in arbitrations and mediations. The firm recorded numerous precedents that were ruled in cases managed by its lawyers and achieved tremendous successes in the cases that it manages through creativity, out-of-the-box thinking where required, attention to details and the ability to adjust the most suitable tactic and strategy for managing the dispute in accordance with its circumstances. The management of the litigation cases is executed efficiently and with determination, at the highest professional level to achieve the client’s goals, prove their claims and reach optimal results.
The firm manages cases with a very substantial scope, from both their financial implications and their legal complexity, in a variety of practice areas of civil, administrative and commercial law, including: contract law, corporate, title, administrative law, public tenders, planning and zoning, dissolution of partnerships, tort and libel. Adv. Ron Berant also manages mediation and arbitration proceedings in complex cases and in matters which are valued in NIS tens of millions, both through private appointments and through appointments from the Israel Bar Association.