Weksler, Bregman & Co.

The team of over 50 attorneys at Weksler, Bregman & Co. offers a vast range of business-related legal services and plays a key role in many of Israel’s most prominent ‎business transactions. Established in 1936, the firm has provided legal counseling over decades to long-time as well as new clients. Its expertise encompasses mergers and ‎acquisitions, corporate law, real estate, planning & zoning, securities, banking & capital markets, litigation, receivership and liquidation, and labor laws.‎ Weksler, Bregman & Co. is a full-service law firm specializing in various fields. The firm enjoys the loyal ‎support of a diverse client base, including companies and public institutions it has represented since its establishment in 1936. Weksler Bregman’s team has facilitated some ‎of Israel’s largest transactions in recent years.‎

Main Areas of Practice

General Corporate Representation; M&A, Hi-tech: The firm advises to private sector firms, that manage business on a wide range of areas. The legal advisement includes various corporate issues, such as establishing partnerships, companies, hedge funds and joint ventures, providing legal opinions, and handling transactions. The firm handles drafting corporate acquisition and investment agreements, M&A, transfer of knowledge, distribution, licensing for transfer of technology, marketing, franchising, employments agreements, etc.

Real Estate: The real estate and development practice of the firm provides a full range of legal services through all the successive steps of a real estate property life-cycle: from ‎acquisition, through zoning and planning, to financing, construction, registration, and sale or rent. The firm has been involved in a wide range of projects, ranging from the construction of commercial centers, large residential areas and shopping malls, to ‎hotels, industrial buildings and other projects. The firm also holds a particular expertise related to complex real estate transactions and financing thereof, representing both leading real estate ‎entrepreneurs and banking institutions regarding the financing of large-scale, complex real estate projects in Israel.‎

Planning & Zoning: The firm has unique expertise in the field on planning & zoning. The firm accompanies leading entrepreneurs in the initiating of urban building plans for residential, employment and hoteliery purposes across Israel, from the initial stages of preparation of the plans to the stage of building permits’ issuance, as well as representation before the different planning committees, before municipal authorities and in legal proceedings before the courts of law. The firm consults companies and individuals in filing and responding to motions of objection for plans, while specializing in the reform of the Planning & Zoning Law, and in analyzing master zoning plans and filing objection motions with respect thereto. The firm represents many entrepreneurs and individuals in urban renewal projects. The firm also conducts educational programs and issues professional updates regarding the field of planning & zoning.

Banking & Capital Markets: The firm has vast experience in the field of initial public offerings and private offerings as well as in representation of issuers, banks and major entities in the Israeli market. Additionally, the firm has a unique expertise in legal counseling regarding regulation of Israeli Stock Exchange. Within the scope of banking & capital markets legal services, the firm is engaged in transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, private offerings and all sorts of financing agreements, as well as in preparations of prospectuses, compensation plans, advising public companies in matters of corporate governance and representation in front of regulatory bodies. In the field on banking, the firm provides legal services to domestic and foreign banks, and to financial institutions, in all areas of banking activities. Within this scope, the firm is involved in the field of banking licensing, in acquisition and sale of controlling stakes in banks, in banking regulation - including representation of its clients in front of regulatory authorities which include inter alia the Bank of Israel and the Israeli Supervisor of Insurance - and in all aspects of corporate governance in banks.

Litigation: The firm specializes in complex litigation in the fields of commercial and civil laws, corporate law, banking, securities, real estate, planning & zoning, business ‎licensing, professional negligence (attorneys at law and officers of companies). Amongst other the firm represents its clients in complex class actions and derivative lawsuits ‎in the fields of banking and securities laws, as well as in administrative petitions and tender laws. The litigations partners of the firm regularly act as mediators and arbitrators ‎in various litigation proceedings, including in the fields of banking, real estate and commercial disputes, and also lecture on such subjects. The firm manages worldwide ‎litigation on behalf of its clients, and closely supervises such proceedings, amongst other by way of engaging domestic legal counsels.

Liquidation and Receivership: The firm offers broad expertise in all matters relating to liquidation and receivership procedures (including debt arrangements, companies’ ‎recovery, companies’ special management, etc) and the firm’s lawyers act from time to time as liquidators or receivers of companies, especially on behalf of commercial ‎banks. During recent years the firm has positioned itself in the first tier of debt arrangements, and led series of high-profile debt arrangements conducted in Israel which ‎include, inter alia, the largest debt arrangement ever conducted in Israel, of approximately 7.5 billion NIS. In the field of debt arrangements, the firm represents public and ‎private companies which seek to reach a debt arrangement with their creditors, as well as bond holders and trustees which seek to reach such arrangements with insolvent ‎companies.‎

Labor Laws: The firm represents its clients, which act in almost every existing employment sector, in all ongoing issues regarding their employees, including general employees’ ‎rights, social rights, dismissal and resignation aspects, conduct of hearings, employment contracts, retirement contracts, obligation deeds and other legal documents, counseling and establishment of a layout for ‎investigating sexual harassment and maltreatment complaints, and implementation of internal regulation compliance bodies.‎