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Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co. Offices
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98 YIGAL ALON STREET
TEL AVIV 67891
Israel
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Adv Avi Arad
Work Department
Head of the Real Estate, Planning and Construction Department
Position
Adv. Avi 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.
Avi provides ongoing 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.
Avi advises public and private real estate companies, as well as leading Israeli and international entrepreneurial companies. In recent years, he 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.
Avi 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 Avi’s clients are public companies, private companies, holding groups and entrepreneurs of large-scale real estate projects.
Avi 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, Avi was a senior partner at Dankner Lusky & Co., a leading Israeli law firm in the real estate, commercial and corporate fields.
Avi is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.
Languages
English and Hebrew.
Memberships
Israel Bar Association, 1988
Education
LL.B, Tel Aviv University, 1987
Lawyer Rankings
Israel > Planning and zoning
(Leading partners)Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.’s comprehensive planning and zoning team routinely works in tandem with its dominant real estate and construction practice to advise on the planning aspects of major real estate and infrastructure projects. Acting for a mix of developers, construction companies, infrastructure entities and property owners, the group is well versed in regulatory processes, planning disputes and municipal tax issues, among other matters. Orna Verhovsky and Sagiv Hanin co-lead the planning and construction area and are highly regarded for their specialist focus. Other key contacts include Levy Amitay
and Avi Arad, who co-head the broader real estate, planning and construction department, and Israel Aziel, who fronts the real estate team.
Israel > Real estate and construction
(Leading partners)Hailed by many as ‘the best team in the market’, Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co. acts for litany of high-calibre clients from across the industry, including many of Israel’s most active developers and construction companies, as well as real estate owners, contractors and purchasing groups, among others. The fully diversified practice fields specialist expertise in all key pillars of the sector, with notable firepower in asset acquisitions and disposals, construction, investment, financings and regulatory matters. Sought after trio Levy Amitay, Avi Arad and Israel Aziel co-head the team and all are highly regarded for their transactional expertise. The group also draws on veteran of counsel Ari Wechsler; department vice heads Vered Gitterman and Gabi Drucker; Patrick Benzimra, who leads the European clientele area within the practice; and Yael Mirone Mezamer, who impresses with her ‘vast experience’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners Israel > Planning and zoning
- Leading partners 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
- Intellectual property > Intellectual property: filing/prosecution