Shibolet & Co.

Shibolet & Co. is among Israel's largest law firms specializing in international corporate and commercial law, providing a comprehensive array of tailored legal services to a diverse range of market sectors. The firm comprises over 280 attorneys, each possessing unique fields of specialization and complementary skillsets. This synergy among our professionals enables the firm to offer clients an extensive range of legal services in local and international corporate-commercial matters, all under one roof. The firm's clients include local and multinational companies, foreign corporations operating in Israel, and public and private entities across diverse industries, including technology, retail, financial institutions, insurance, and more.

Main Practice Areas:

Corporate Law – The firm represents numerous companies and corporations, financial institutions, and public and private entities, including local representatives of multinational corporations headquartered abroad. Over the years, the firm has gained significant expertise and experience, providing ongoing legal counsel across all corporate matters, including advice to boards of directors and senior management, due diligence, private and public offerings, government contracts and tenders, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, business acquisitions and divestitures, shareholder disputes, class actions, and competition law.

Mergers and Acquisitions – One of the firm's largest and most prominent departments. The department's partners and attorneys have extensive expertise in mergers and acquisitions in Israel and enjoy significant reputations and experience internationally. The firm handles complex M&A transactions, representing Israeli and foreign companies in ventures valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. Shibolet & Co. provides ongoing legal counsel to the Israeli offices of multinational corporations headquartered abroad. Additionally, the department regularly advises and represents clients in private equity investments.

High-Tech and Venture Capital – Shibolet & Co.'s High-Tech Department has been active for over three decades and is among Israel's largest, most respected, and well-known practices. The department is consistently ranked by international directories as a prominent leader in its field in Israel. The department advises on the establishment of leading Israeli venture capital funds and represents both Israeli and international funds in their investment processes and due diligence. The firm represents numerous highly promising startups, many high-tech companies traded on NASDAQ and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, as well as major multinational corporations operating in Israel.

Commercial Litigation – The Litigation Department of Shibolet & Co. comprises leading partners and attorneys specializing in commercial litigation, representing clients in judicial proceedings and alternative dispute resolution (arbitration and mediation). The firm represents numerous local and foreign companies involved in legal proceedings in Israel, both as plaintiffs and defendants. Additionally, the litigation team handles bankruptcies, receiverships, liquidations, stays of proceedings and related matters, as well as environmental litigation.

Project Finance and Infrastructure – The firm possesses distinctive expertise in negotiating private financing agreements and structuring the legal relationships among various consortium groups, as well as between these groups and governmental authorities. The firm's experience in financing energy and water-treatment projects has gained recognition, demonstrated by its involvement in numerous large-scale BOT and BOO projects in Israel and abroad. Thanks to its established expertise and longstanding relationships with the banking sector, Shibolet & Co. is able to negotiate advantageous financing terms for clients' projects.

Tender Law – Shibolet & Co.'s Tender Law Department regularly advises tender committees within public entities and manages large-scale tender processes in construction and infrastructure, consulting, goods, services, and technology. The team specializes in advising private entities in preparation for and during tender processes, risk analysis and assessment of contractual engagements, formulating clarification questions, drafting bid documents, attending clarification meetings, and leading negotiations. Additionally, the team provides legal counsel for infrastructure and construction projects for public entities, private developers, and contractors.

Capital Markets – In recent years, the department has handled numerous significant and complex public offerings and private placements in Israel, including representing international distributors and underwriters in the privatization of Israel's oil refineries. The Israeli Ministry of Finance selected the department to lead the privatization process of the Cross-Israel Highway, Israel's largest infrastructure project. The department provides ongoing representation to public companies (including Israeli corporations issuing abroad) in initial and subsequent offerings, as well as in their ongoing operations, including transactions with controlling shareholders and periodic reporting obligations.

Taxation – The firm's Tax Department comprises attorneys with accounting and CPA backgrounds, who possess extensive experience and expertise across all areas of taxation, including international tax matters. The department advises on transactions, tax planning, advance tax rulings, and representing clients before tax authorities (including objections and litigation). The department represents corporations, private clients, venture capital funds, non-profit organizations, and residents and non-residents of Israel.

Banking and Finance – The firm's clients include leading banks and financial institutions from Israel and abroad. The firm provides legal services covering banking, finance, regulatory issues, mergers and acquisitions, and the establishment of banking institutions, branches, and representative offices.

Environmental Law, Cleantech, and Climate Change – The firm is among Israel's pioneers in this significant practice area. The department provides specialized counsel to entrepreneurs in the cleantech sector, advises companies and factories on regulatory matters, and supports processes addressing environmental issues. The department prepares environmental compliance programs assisted by a chemical engineer and chemist. It specializes in environmental litigation, including representation of groups in class-action suits against polluters.

Competition Law – The Competition Department advises both Israeli and foreign clients on all aspects of competition law, including merger approval processes, obtaining exemptions from restrictive arrangements before the Israel Competition Authority, and ongoing counsel to monopolies and other companies regarding proper conduct under Israeli competition law.

Real Estate – The Real Estate Department specializes in a wide range of real estate transactions in both commercial and residential sectors. Shibolet & Co. represents developers, construction companies, purchasing groups, institutional borrowers, and commercial clients in matters involving acquisition, development, sale, commercialization, construction, and leasing of real estate, including urban renewal (Pinui-Binui) and TAMA 38 projects. The department's activities include representation in real estate litigation and dissolution of property partnerships.

Energy, Oil, and Gas – Shibolet & Co. is recognized as a pioneer among firms in the fields of conventional and renewable energy. The department has extensive and specialized experience in advising on the development of private power stations in Israel and abroad, from the initial planning stage through construction and operation, including financing. In addition to conventional energy, the firm's attorneys possess knowledge and experience in the solar, wind, and renewable energy sectors.

Cybersecurity, Data Protection, and Privacy – The firm's Cybersecurity, Data Protection, and Privacy Department advises on various technology and data-related matters, supporting the development of innovative ventures, systems, and technological concepts while reducing risk exposure for companies, senior management, and boards of directors. The department possesses substantial experience in international projects, enabling it to guide companies and entrepreneurs in complex and evolving regulatory environments. The team provides ongoing legal counsel to organizations at all stages, from early-stage startups and founders to publicly traded companies with extensive international operations.

Private Wealth Management, Intergenerational Transfers, and Personal Status – The firm's Private Wealth Management and Intergenerational Planning Department is a leading practice in its field, with substantial experience in handling complex matters relating to the intergenerational transfer of private and family wealth. The department has particular expertise in the intergenerational transfer of family-owned companies and businesses, including the drafting of partnership agreements, family constitutions or charters, tailored bylaws, allocation of management and control shares, and integration of children and other family members into business operations. The department also advises on wealth mapping, the management of personal and family assets, and intergenerational succession planning. The department operates alongside a leading litigation practice specializing in complex personal status and inheritance matters.

Local Authorities – The department advises and represents local authorities, water and sewage corporations, and municipal entities across a range of areas, including tenders, real estate, infrastructure, and municipal projects.

Employment and Labor Law – The firm's Employment and Labor Department is recognized as one of Israel's leading practices, specializing in ongoing counsel and representation of employers, senior management, and directors. The department has extensive experience in complex merger and acquisition transactions, due diligence processes, representations and warranties in the context of transactions and offerings, structuring equity-based compensation plans, drafting agreements and policies and more.

Telecommunications, Media, and Internet – The firm has extensive experience advising on transactions in this sector and is recognized as one of Israel's leading practices in the field. The department represents Israeli and international companies, including cable and satellite operators, broadcasters, telecommunications providers, print media publishers, internet service providers, and numerous online portals. The firm has handled some of the most complex and significant mergers in Israel's communications sector.

Life Sciences and Healthcare – Shibolet & Co. is a leading provider of comprehensive legal services in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. The department possesses deep familiarity with the industry, including regulatory and commercial requirements, intellectual property matters, technology transfers from academic institutions to commercial entities, and the adaptations required in a shifting regulatory environment. The team advises startups and high-tech companies in the fields of medical devices, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals, as well as global corporations, venture capital funds, investment firms, medical-academic research centers, research institutions, individual researchers, healthcare facilities, and other organizations operating in the healthcare sector. In addition, the department counsels clients on all legal aspects of clinical trials, data transfer and privacy protection, licensing, commercialization, marketing, and distribution of medical devices.

Pro Bono – Shibolet & Co. maintains a clear commitment to social responsibility and dedicates significant resources to public-interest work. The firm provides legal services to a number of non-profit organizations and public benefit companies, including The Israeli Spirit, Ra'anana Symphonette Orchestra, Shiur Acher, Ramat Hadassah Youth Villages, Keren Shemesh, Gvahim, and others. Partners at the firm serve on the boards of these and other institutions.

Shibolet ESG – a consulting company of Shibolet, assisting business, public, and institutional organizations in implementing environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) approaches in their operations.

Shibolet AI – a new consulting company of Shibolet, focused on supporting organizations through artificial intelligence (AI)-based transformation processes.