Weksler, Bregman & Co.

Weksler Bergman & Co. was established in 1936 and is a pioneer in the Israeli legal arena. Since then, an entrepreneurial spirit has characterized the Firm, which has become one of the leaders in Israel. The Firm’s seniority allows it to provide its clients with a service based on its highly developed experience and a unique, forward-looking perspective. Its clients rely on the Firm in various areas and fields of expertise, as it acts as a one-stop shop for many legal needs. The Firm has over 60 attorneys and offers a wide range of services in the fields of civil and commercial law, with expertise in 15 fields of legal expertise. The Firm ensures a high synergy between the departments to provide a results-oriented service. Local and international rating bodies have recognized it as a leader in all its areas of expertise.

Main Areas of Expertise

Companies and Commercial Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Technology: The legal advice in this framework encompasses diverse corporate and commercial issues, such as establishing partnerships, companies, funds, joint ventures, providing opinions and handling transactions. The Firm deals with drafting agreements for the purchase of companies and investment in them, mergers, knowledge transfers, distribution, agencies, licenses for technology transfer, marketing, etc. In addition, the Firm handles the legal affairs of leading local and international companies and their representatives in Israel.
Real Estate: The Firm’s real estate department is one of the largest and most experienced among law firms in Israel and is involved in a wide range of large and complex projects, including residentials, office towers, shopping malls, hotels, industrial and science office parks, infrastructure, BOT and accompanying real estate transactions abroad. The Firm accompanies projects throughout all stages: the acquisition of the rights to the land, planning and licensing procedures, construction, drawing up the agreements for the marketing of completed buildings, and more. The Firm also specializes in financing real estate transactions, representing entrepreneurs in purchasing land and financial support agreements, and representing several of the largest banks in Israel that finance real estate activities.
Urban Renewal: The Firm accompanies various urban renewal projects by representing entrepreneurs, tenants, and accompanying banks in these projects. The Firm’s professional staff’s cumulative experience provides significant added value to tenants and entrepreneurs in urban renewal projects.
Planning and Construction: The Firm accompanies first-class entrepreneurs in the initiation of city building plans for housing, employment, and hotels all over the country, from the stage of drafting the strategies to issuing construction permits, including representation in all planning committees, at the local authorities and in the framework of legal proceedings.
Litigation: The Firm represents significant clients from Israel and abroad. The Firm specializes in complex litigation in the fields of civil and commercial law, accompanying and managing international litigation, banking, securities, real estate, Infrastructure and construction, companies, and business licensing, including class and derivative suits, with particular expertise in complex class and derivative claims in the area’s banking and securities. In addition, the Firm handles all facets of administrative petitions and tender laws.
Capital Markets and Banking: The Firm has extensive experience in public and private offerings and representing issuers, including banks and major entities. The Firm has a unique specialization in legal advice concerning the regulation of managing a stock exchange in Israel. This framework accompanied the dedicated legislation procedure to change the structure of the stock exchange and its implementation in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The Firm even set another legal and business precedent when in 2019, it represented the stock exchange in its first IPO. The Firm deals with transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, private placements and financing agreements, prospectuses, compensation plans, consulting on corporate governance issues for public companies, and representation before regulatory bodies. In the banking field, the Firm provides services to local and foreign banks, institutions, and financial entities in all areas of banking activity. In this regard, the Firm is active in the field of bank licensing, the field of regulation, as well as in corporate governance in banks.
Labor Law: The firm represents one of the largest commercial companies in the economy in the fields of hotels, construction, hi-tech, retail industry and more. The firm has extensive experience in ongoing legal advice to corporations for all of the firm’s clients, in almost every possible employment sector, in all legal and organizational issues that regularly arise with their employees, including employee rights, social rights, dismissals and resignations, holding hearings, preparing employment contracts, retirement agreements, documents Commitment and legal documents, consulting and establishment of a complaint investigation system regarding sexual harassment and harassment and implementation of regulatory compliance systems. Also, the firm has extensive experience in accompanying organizations in the collective field, and extensive experience in accompanying corporations in administrative and criminal legal processes before the state authorities with regard to labor laws as well as litigation representation in all legal tribunals.
Insolvency: The Firm has extensive experience managing receivership, freezing, liquidating companies, rescuing and operating companies in difficulties, and representing them in court as part of insolvency procedures. The Firm specializes in managing liquidation procedures of collapsed banking institutions. For example, since 2002, Attorney Uri Bregman has served as a special administrator manager of the Bank for Commerce Ltd. (in liquidation). The Firm has extensive expertise in the revival of companies and the formation of debt settlements. Under this framework, it represents public and private companies, bondholders and trustees. The Firm has handled highly publicized debt settlements, including the most significant in the Israeli economy, with a scope of approximately NIS 7.5 billion.
Privacy and Data Protection: The Firm has a unique practice in privacy and information security. Its services include implementing compliance programs with privacy protection laws in Israel under GDPR. In addition, the Firm accompanies clients in dealing with information security incidents, preparation and support in implementing privacy policies, cookies, terms of use for websites, applications and technological products, drafting and managing negotiations about information processing agreements, licensing, and more.