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Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co. Offices
ELECTRA TOWER
98 YIGAL ALON STREET
TEL AVIV 67891
Israel
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Adv Avi Arad
Work Department
Real Estate, Planning and Construction Department
Position
Adv. Arad is the Co-Head of the Real Estate, Planning and Construction Department, and is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
Adv. Arad specializes in complex real estate transactions, including large scale residential projects which include hundreds or thousands of housing units, and possesses significant reputation regarding Tama 38 (a National Outline Plan for the reinforcement of buildings against earthquakes) and urban renewal projects.
Adv. Arad provides continuous legal consulting to real estate companies, developers and infrastructure companies regarding various projects and transactions, including commercial projects, public housing projects, hotel projects and more.
Adv. Arad advises public and private real estate companies, as well as leading Israeli and international entrepreneurial companies. In recent years, Adv. Arad had handled a significant portion of the largest and most complex real estate transactions in Israel – both from the legal rights’ status aspects of the relevant real estate, and from the transaction’s commercial and financial aspects.
Adv. Arad advises clients from the planning and acquisition stages, through the development stages and construction and registration stages. He advises on financing procedures, and on real estate tax aspects, and represents clients before various government authorities.
Among Adv. Arad’s clients are public companies, private companies, holding groups and entrepreneurs of large-scale real estate projects.
Adv. Arad has been repeatedly recognized, year after year, by various international directories, among them is Chambers & Partners, by domestic directories and by professional magazines, as one of Israel’s leading attorneys in the real estate field.
In the past, Adv. Arad was a senior partner at Dankner Lusky & Co., a leading Israeli law firm in the real estate, commercial and corporate fields.
Languages
English and Hebrew.
Memberships
Israel Bar Association, 1988.
Education
LL.B. Tel Aviv University, 1987.
Lawyer Rankings
Israel > Real estate and construction
(Leading individuals)Housing a full-service real estate practice, Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co. routinely represents major domestic and multinational clients across the full range of real estate transactions, project development and real estate investments. Already ranking among the largest real estate practices in the market, Goldfarb’s recent tie-up with Gross & Co adds further critical mass. The group is co-led by a trio of go-to real estate specialists, namely Levy Amitay
, Avi Arad, and Israel Aziel. Other recommended practitioners include Vered Gitterman; Yael Mirone Mezamer; Gabi Drucker; seasoned of counsel Ari Wechsler; and new arrival Patrick Benzimra , whose addition added significant cross-border firepower with the combination of his eponymous boutique, which specialised in representing foreign clients, into the firm.
Israel > Planning and zoning
(Leading individuals)Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co. acts for a varied mix of entrepreneurs, construction groups, infrastructure clients and property owners on planning and zoning work. The team covers all key real estate spheres, including residential, urban renewal, infrastructure and industrial projects, where it advises on the full life cycle of matters, from proceedings for the approval of master zoning plans, through to complex litigation. Levy Amitay and Avi Arad co-lead the overarching real estate, planning and construction department; both handle planning issues and real estate transactions. The planning and construction sub-practice is led jointly by Orna Verhovsky and Sagiv Hanin. Real estate head Israel Aziel is also noted.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals Israel > Planning and zoning
- Leading individuals Israel > Real estate and construction
- Planning and zoning Israel
- Real estate and construction Israel
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Competition/antitrust
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: class actions (including derivative actions)
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: mediation and international arbitration
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Hi-tech and start-ups
- Infrastructure
- Insurance
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: commercial/transactions
- Investment and venture capital funds
- Planning and zoning
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: local litigation and arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Dispute resolution: white-collar crime, investigation and fraud
- Employment
- Energy
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Telecoms and media
- Transport
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: disputes