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Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.
ELECTRA TOWER
98 YIGAL ALON STREET
TEL AVIV 67891
Israel

Work Department

Labor and Corporate Immigration Department

Position

Adv. Berenson is Co-Head of the Labor and Corporate Immigration Department.

Adv. Berenson specializes in labor law, both private and collective, and is experienced in managing litigation proceedings in the field. He provides ongoing counsel to various private and commercial clients, including with regard to drafting employment agreements, advising on labor crisis situations, providing legal opinions (in relation to due diligence as well), pension counsel and more.

Adv. Berenson possesses unique expertise in the collective labor law field, and has many years of experience advising on initial organization, collective negotiations and collective agreements related to strikes, labor disputes, privatization, transfers of control and corporate restructuring. Moreover, he is experienced in representing public entities and officials before the Finance Ministry’s Department of Salary and Employment Agreements.

Over the years, Adv. Berenson advised on dozens of collective agreements in various organizations, including universities, municipalities, infrastructure companies, defense corporations, public service and more.

In the litigation aspect, Adv. Berenson represents his clients in complex labor law litigation proceedings, including class actions, collective proceedings and disciplinary hearings.

In addition, Adv. Berenson serves in the military reserves as an officer in the Military Advocate General’s Corps, where he serves as legal advisor on labor law.

In the past, Adv. Berenson co-authored (together with his father, Adv. Haim Berenson) an article on “Sympathy Strikes” in honor of his grandfather, the late Supreme Court Judge, Zvi Berenson, published in the second volume of the book known as the Berenson Book, “Bnei Svara”.

Languages

English and Hebrew.

Memberships

Israel Bar Association, 1995

Education

LL.B., College of Management Academic Studies, 1994

B.A., Economics, Tel Aviv University, 1990

Lawyer Rankings

Israel > Employment

(Leading individuals)

Assaf BerensonGoldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.

Acting for a huge array of clients in sectors ranging from sciences and education to investment funds and local government, Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co. is well recommended for trade union work – acting for both unions and employers – as well as offering support with corporate immigration. Key to the team are post-transactional employment specialist Ofer Ravid, immigration expert Liam Schwartz and Assaf Berenson, who focuses on strike actions. Also central are Yael Dolev, who specialises in the medical and transport sectors, and Haim Berenson, who offers niche expertise on employment matters specific to the defence industry and government institutions.