Yahav&Co. Law Firm

Yahav&Co. was established in 1976 and it specializes in the practice areas of urban renewal, real-estate, civil-commercial, including litigation in these fields. Throughout the decades, the firm accumulated expertise and work methods for the owner’s and the clients’ benefit. This year, dozens of projects in Tama 38/2 and Pinui-Binui channels, in which the firm chose to represent only apartment owners, and became an expert in protecting and exercising their full rights, while avoiding any possible conflict of interests. The firm’s core principles of operation are professionalism, activism, transparency and balance. The firm’s uniqueness is in its involvement, pro-active initiatives in the field to connect the rights’ holders in a way that enables the projects to be promoted and realized. The integration between these factors leads to the firm’s great success in and the leading position it achieved this field. Promoting the importance of urban renewal as an agenda to benefit apartment owners was manifested in the representation and execution of the second project in Israel in Kfar Sava, which was populated already in 2011, whose residents are Israel’s urban renewal ambassadors! The founder of firm, Adv. And Notary Dina Yahav, obtained precedents and legal achievements in the real estate field during the firm’s over 47 years of operations. These precedents are studied as part of the training of future lawyers In the field, and in banking and associations training and seminars.

The Firm’s Secret to Success – “We are Always on the Owners’ Side”

The firm is at the forefront of legal representation in the urban renewal field and focuses exclusively on the representation of residents. Thousands of apartment owners across Israel have been represented by the firm, with its name passing from mouth to ear. The secret of its success in this field is in its willingness to pick a side, the pro-active approach of the team that handles the projects, with thorough and strategic thinking, transparency from end-to-end to the residents and perfect coordination between all of the entities in order to promote and balance the interests of all of the parties for the success of the project. The firm’s attorneys leave no stone unturned in every project they manage in order to make what seems initially impossible – applicable. Over the years, the firm populated numerous projects with great success and these residents’ properties and quality of life significantly appreciated.

Professionalism, Expertise & Independence

The firm’s partners believe that urban renewal would solve and rectify the problems that Israel’s residential market currently experiences in the 2023 declines and 2024 war including in adding a residential secure space as a national mission, and this is expressed through the firm’s partners membership in the Tama 38 and Urban Renewal Division of the Tel Aviv Chamber of Commerce, and their participation in the Property Forum of the Israel Bar Association, and in “The Nadlan Center”, and participation in the relevant Knesset’s regulation committees. The firm’s team of attorneys remains constantly abreast of the latest legislation amendments and rulings and is aware of all of the legal developments in the field through partnering and accompanying legislation amendment processes in local authorities, local, district and national zoning commissions, and relevant government authorities, including the tax authorities. The firm’s lawyers are highly experienced and possess a broad legal knowledge, personal involvement, alongside with negotiation capabilities and proficiencies that are based on intensive fieldwork and proven practice. A high level and expertise, vast experience, clear service charter, commitment to the client and to the result and technological innovation, enable the firm’s lawyers to act independently on one hand, and on the other to cooperate in team work in their intensive work and provide them with in-depth understanding of the processes that lead to success.

Personal Attention and Active Legal Operations

Yahav&Co. is a family firm and accordingly it espouses tailored, personal and caring attention to its clients in every case it handles. An emphasis is given to the pro-active legal work, the presentation of all of the information and full transparency from end-to-end, in order to lead its clients to the desired result, while neutralizing dangers and errors. The firm represents apartment owners in its urban renewal practice, and it keeps in contact the residents’ delegate and the residents’ advisors, every family in the project, out of the desire to promote the interests of all of the residents of the project. The firm attributes maximal importance to the owners of rights, on an individual basis, with customization to the population, and particular consideration to issues of culture, language, age and particular difficulties, including the provision of information in various languages.

Prominent Projects

Throughout the years, the firm accompanied the promotion, planning and construction of thousands of apartments in numerous projects throughout Israel, and some of the major projects where it represented apartment owners include:
A Binui-Pinui-Binui Project in the Ramat Eliyahu Neighborhood of Rishon LeZion- this is a precedential format, as the initiator is the State of Israel/The Ministry of Housing in a unique pilot project, where the residents would be transferred to apartments in several new neighborhoods on complementary land on behalf of the state, in a way which enables economic feasibility. The firm has been facilitating this project from the beginning. The project would include the demolition of 828 old apartments and the construction of upscale luxury towers in their place in the neighborhoods of the “1,000” complex and the “Nuriot” Complex that are under construction. The Neighborhood of Nahlat Yehuda – the project is populated.
HaShvatim Complex, Bat Yam - the firm manages this large Pinui-Binui project in HaShvatim Complex where 144 residential units were demolished and replaced for all owners with 754 new units in 4 towers above two commercial and office floors. This is one of the most luxurious Pinui-Binui projects in central Israel. The firm also handles the bank finance on behalf of the apartment owners. The project is under construction.
A Pinui-Binui Project in the Bar Kokhva Complex,
Herzliya - the firm accompanies this project where 124 old apartments were evacuated and demolished in order to build about 400 new apartments. In this complex, a new neighborhood is being built from the ground up, including new infrastructures, a commercial center, bike lanes, an urban piazza and green environmental solutions. The project is under construction.
• Expertise in representing apartment owners rather than entrepreneurs since 2005.
• Support for the formulation of the delegation.
• Support in appropriate and efficient organization of owner assemblies.
• Supporting the delegation in the selection of a developer, including conducting a kind of tender.
• Cooperation with some of the leading and most experienced urban renewal experts.
• Drafting the final agreement and receiving the signatures.
• Legal support vis-à-vis a financial entity of the entrepreneur.
• Supporting the owners of rights until post-population, project completion and registration.