Salomon Lipschütz & Co.

Salomon Lipschütz & Co. is one of the largest and leading law firms in Israel, providing its clients with comprehensive legal counsel in the areas of commercial, civil, and public law. Over its 100 years of extensive and diversified legal activity, with branches in both the center and north of Israel, the Firm has developed a professional worldview based on the human capital it has nurtured, along with mental flexibility, thoroughness, and uncompromising dedication to its clients.

Key Practice Areas

Banking - The department works with leading financial institutions in Israel and abroad, and provides ongoing advice to bank managements, representation in insolvency proceedings of banks and other creditors, including bankruptcy, liquidation, receivership, and creditor arrangements.

Real Estate - The department has extensive experience in establishing multiple malls and commercial centers and their day-to-day operation, and represents the largest and most influential groups in this field in Israel.

Hi-Tech - One of Israel’s leading departments in its field. The department provides comprehensive legal advice to start-ups, technological companies, pharma, software and hardware, biotechnology, communications, technology incubators, venture capital funds, and more.

Transportation - The department renders ongoing consultation to companies that operate public transport lines and companies that provide transportation solutions and services to the tourism industry, educational institutions, municipalities, local councils, and work places.

Crisis Management - The department’s activity ranges from advising and providing legal consultation to companies and boards of directors, including bond arrangements and shareholder disputes, through purchase transactions, appointment of officials on behalf of courts, to representing controlling shareholders, debtors, and creditors.

Commercial Litigation - The department counsels leading banks, insurance companies, government and municipal entities, companies operating in the fields of trade, industry, and services, foreign clients, and private clients.

Planning and Construction - The department provides ongoing legal advice and assistance in the preparation and submission of city building plans for projects in a variety of areas, and representation before planning institutions and courts.

Intellectual Property - The Intellectual Property Department is well known and recognized in its field and has unique expertise in trademark infringement, copyright, theft of trade secrets, passing off, and other commercial wrongs.

Tender Laws - The department provides consultation to partnerships, local companies, international companies and different public bodies participating in tenders, including submittal and management of administrative petitions to cancel tenders, stop tender procedures, change terms of tenders, etc.

Administrative Law - The department has extensive experience in consultation to and representation of both entities and individuals from the private sector and government as well as municipal bodies (such as local authorities and government companies) on a variety of topics, including tenders, planning and construction, public transport, local authorities and property taxes, issues of environment, discrimination, freedom of information, and other constitutional rights.

Corporations and Commercial Law - Among the department’s clients are Fortune 500 companies, banks, public and private companies, start-ups, industrial plants, partnerships, cooperatives, and individuals, in merger and acquisition transactions, investment rounds, joint ventures, spin-offs, and reorganization.

Urban Renewal - The department provides ongoing advice and consultation to projects of urban renewal, representing tenants, entrepreneurs, institutional bodies from different aspects of the law such as real estate, planning and construction, taxation, banking and finance, and more.

Labor Law - One of Israel’s leading departments in its field, representing the largest organizations in the economy and providing comprehensive legal services, from advice on day-to-day conduct in the workplace to representation in courts and complex processes.

Mergers and Acquisitions - The department provides consultation to leading companies in the Israeli economy as well as international companies, and render ongoing advice re mergers, acquisitions, and splits, including to senior managements and board of directors, conducting negotiations, due diligence, drafting and signing contracts.

Anti-Money Laundering - The department provides ongoing legal assistance and is extensively involved in this developing and innovative field, implementing and assimilating anti-money laundering laws and proper regulatory management in banks and other entities.

Insolvency - The department has extensive experience in all the steps relating to liquidation proceedings, receiverships, freezing proceedings, and debt arrangements with both debtors and creditors.

Class Actions - The department operates in all instances and represents most of Israel’s public transport, hi-tech and pharma corporations.

Planning and Zoning – the department provides comprehensive legal counsel and support for the entire process of planning and submitting projects’ city plans in various and diverse fields, as well as representation before all planning entities and tribunals.

Municipal Taxation - The department has excellent expertise in examining and reducing charges by local authorities and municipal corporations, including improvement levies, fees, and development levies (sewage, water, paving, and canalization), additional related levies, and property taxes.

Insurance & Torts - The department has extensive experience representing a wide range of insurance companies in Israel and abroad, corporations, and individuals. The department team provides ongoing legal services, including representation in courts, arbitrations, and mediations.

Competition Laws - The department provides preliminary advice in preparing for acquisitions, mergers, or joint ventures, to examine compliance with the law, receive approval from the Antitrust Commissioner, examine applicability of the law re monopolies and their consequences, and represent clients in antitrust inquiries.

Inheritance Laws - The department provides, advice, consultation and assistance in managing lawsuits and disputes between heirs, drafting wills, agreements between heirs, submitting applications for an inheritance order and a will, opposing a will, managing estates, drafting a power of attorney, and administrative law.