Steinmetz, Haring, Gurman & Co. Advocates

Steinmetz, Haring, Gurman & Co.’s firm sets the standard to which others aspire, carrying out sophisticated and pioneering work for its clients. SHG is proud to be working with some of the world’s leading financial institutions, both privately and publicly held, successful businesses and private high net worth individuals. SHG’s lawyers are quality professionals and leaders with an in-depth understanding across a broad range of commercial practice areas. SHG’s team of lawyers work across practice areas and jurisdictions to provide the highest quality legal services, bringing their collective experience to bear on the issues facing our clients. SHG delivers exceptional value for money. All departments work together to produce consistently high-quality advice blended with a highly competitive fee structure. Our firm consists of partners and attorneys qualified to practice law within England and the US and alongside Israeli law.

Main Areas of Practice

Capital Markets & Securities

SHG represents prominent Israeli and Israeli held companies and international companies as well as underwriters, on their flotation on various stock exchanges, both in Israel and abroad. The firm advises its clients on compliance with the Israeli legal implications of rules of such exchanges, which apply to such Israeli companies. Our experience in this field has involved the creation of innovative transactional structures which have included transactions of dually listed companies and various securities offered in the course of such offerings. We have unique experience in successfully handling large and complex revolutionary transaction structures. Such transaction structures have required various changes to the applicable laws, in order to enable the adoption of such transaction structures. The firm has gained notoriety as experts in public and private offerings of various financial instruments, including ETF’s and asset-backed securitizations.

Corporate Finance/Commercial

SHG provides its clients with legal services from the initial phases of incorporation throughout the implementation of the business, exits or public offerings and beyond.
The firm offers advice on legal structure in addition to assisting its client in determining their goals and priorities in all business negotiations and preparing all relevant legal documents between the relevant parties. SHG handles a variety of transactions for international clients as well as represents Israeli clients, as well as public, governmental and municipal companies. Israeli held concerns in their cross-border dealings. Among such transactions the firm has advised and assisted clients in the structuring and implementation of various joint venture projects and various energy projects on an international scale.
The firm has acted as counsel to purchasers, target companies and financial institutions on all aspects of domestic and cross-border M&A and related transactions. SHG provides added value to these transactions by pooling the knowledge of our Israeli and foreign qualified lawyers in both the corporate department and other practice areas in order to provide clients with a tailor-made service needed for each specific transaction.
The firm is a member of AGA - Alliot Global Alliance network of firms spread across 98 countries around the world, and includes over 250 law firms, accounting, and consulting firms. Our firm was selected as the exclusive law firm of the network in Israel. As a representative of AGA in Israel, our firm can offer its clients an additional global solution, professional and comprehensive consulting services in the areas of law, accounting, auditing, tax and expert advice. 

Real Estate & Urban Redevelopment

SHG represents reputable developers, construction companies, and architects, involving all aspects of real estate development, including acquisition, leasing, and financing, as well as contract negotiation and drafting. The firm represents clients on residential and commercial conveyances, land purchases and sales, in connection with a diverse array of projects including hotels, shopping centers and gated housing villages.
SHG assists clients with international real estate transactions a long side local counsel, SHG combines its local expertise with the experience of structuring large and complex cross-border real estate transactions to provide a fully tailored product. SHG has become one of the leading law firms in Israel advising on all aspects of urban redevelopment acting for developers, financing institutions and homeowners.

Banking & Finance

SHG represents Israel’s largest institutional investors (insurance companies, pension funds and provident funds) and advice on their investments, fundraising activities, bond issuances and other financial documents and products in addition to structured financing transactions. The firm represents Israel’s largest pension funds in creating financial packages for Israel’s largest infrastructure operations. SHG was one of the first to deal with various securitization issues in Israel and our involvement through the creation of structured financial products has led to accumulated expertise in the field.
SHG is frequently retained by underwriters and banks for the purpose of performing legal due diligence exercises in this regard.

Private Equity

SHG has built significant expertise representing and advising Israeli’s largest institutional investors, on many investments in local and international private equity and debt funds. Our firm accompanies the client, from the fund structuring phase, through the drafting of the limited partnership agreement and side letter, the MFN election phase and through the life of the fund, ensuring that the terms of the investment comply with all Israeli statutory and regulatory requirements.

Litigation

SHG represents both local and foreign clients before all civil courts including the Supreme Court and the administrative courts in a wide variety of disputes and interim proceedings in many areas. In addition, the firm has handled various class action lawsuits on behalf of its clients. At SHG, mediation and alternative dispute resolutions (ADR) services are an integral part of the litigation practice.

Labor law

SHG Employment department fully services the needs of its clients, which provide ongoing legal services in matters of manpower management and of consultation on all aspects of Israeli employment law.