Goldfarb Seligman & Co. > Firm Profile

The firm: Goldfarb Seligman & Co., one of Israel’s largest law firms, is among the elite group of firms that deliver top-tier legal services at international standards. The professional hallmark of the firm, which traces its history back over 80 years, is the unrelenting pursuit of the highest professional and ethical standards in the service of its clients. The firm’s attorneys provide clients with a wide spectrum of sophisticated legal services which are tailored to each client’s specific needs, together with the global connections that a large international law firm can offer.

The firm combines expertise in the Israeli legal system and business context with an extensive international background. In addition to professional training and experience in Israel, a number of partners and associates have foreign legal education and practice experience and others have had substantial exposure to the legal and commercial scene in the US, Asia, Western Europe, Australia and other countries. The firm recruits and employs the leading attorneys in each of its various practice areas. The calibre, breadth and depth of the outstanding professionals at Goldfarb Seligman help to make it the firm of choice for the most discerning clients, both in Israel and overseas. The firm serves domestic and foreign clients from all business sectors, including some of Israel’s largest corporations and some of the world’s leading international companies.

Goldfarb Seligman has consistently been ranked among the leading law firms in Israel in various practice areas by international and local ratings.

Areas of practice
Capital markets and public offerings, in Israel and abroad: Goldfarb Seligman has Israel’s leading capital markets and public offerings practice. The firm advises on public offerings in the Israeli and foreign capital markets, provides ongoing securities law advice to dozens of public companies and represents issuers and underwriters in Israel, the US, Europe, and Australia. The firm works closely with foreign underwriters and investment banks, and the firm’s attorneys have unparalleled expertise in complex financial transactions, and in the representation of clients before various securities authorities and stock exchanges. In addition, the firm’s vast experience with US securities law enables its attorneys to match Israeli law requirements to US law requirements, or to those of other foreign legal jurisdictions.

Corporate and commercial law: The firm handles the largest and most complex cross-border corporate transactions involving Israeli entities while maintaining continuous contact with governmental authorities and handling all regulatory aspects of the deals. The firm’s attorneys apply knowledge from various disciplines of commercial law, as well as multidisciplinary experience acquired while working and studying outside of Israel. The firm’s attorneys act as counsel to companies concerning proper approval of major interested party transactions and advise on executive compensation.

Mergers and acquisitions: Goldfarb Seligman possesses extensive experience in merger and acquisition transactions involving public and private companies. In recent years, the firm has had the lead role in numerous international transactions worth tens of billions of dollars. The firm represents leading Israeli companies in international transactions, as well as foreign clients in their Israeli acquisitions, while providing integrated advice in various legal fields.

Commercial and corporate litigation; dispute resolution: The firm handles the most complex commercial and corporate litigation. The firm’s litigation department partners are among the leading trial lawyers in Israel and represent Israeli and international companies, as well as key business people and senior officials from the public sector. The firm advises on a wide range of legal issues, including complex commercial litigation; corporate litigation in public companies; class actions; international litigation and arbitration; antitrust litigation; internet litigation; real estate litigation; and more. In addition, the firm’s senior partners serve as mediators and arbitrators in complex business and personal disputes. The firm also maintains a boutique law firm within the firm, which specializes in family law mediation.

Real estate, planning, and construction: The firm has one of Israel’s leading real estate departments and handles the most significant transactions in the Israeli real estate, planning and construction fields. It advises holding companies, leading real estate companies and developers on a broad variety of projects, including commercial, industrial, office, residential, hotel and planning and construction projects; and provides clients with comprehensive legal services in all stages of acquisition, bidding, planning, licensing, development, construction, and marketing, including handling required financing and tax issues.

Tax: Goldfarb Seligman’s Tax Department is one of Israel’s most prominent and experienced tax departments. The firm’s attorneys, based in our offices in Israel and our Zurich Branch, advise local and international clients on various tax matters, including the taxation of domestic and international transactions; mergers and acquisitions, real estate taxation; import, export and international trade law; VAT; and more. In addition, the firm specializes in all aspects of executive compensation, including handling all tax and securities issues and drafting sophisticated stock option and bonus plans.

Hi-tech, venture capital and technology agreements: The firm has unique expertise in the hi-tech field and is involved in dozens of domestic and international venture capital transactions every year, representing both investors and companies. The firm advises early-stage companies on financing and intellectual property; handles exits (IPOs, M&As); and advises venture capital funds with respect to capital issues and other related matters. In addition, the firm possesses extensive experience regarding agreements for commercializing technologies, in both the hi-tech and the life sciences fields.

Industry: The firm possesses extensive experience in advising and representing Industrial corporations from all segments of the market, and our expert attorneys are familiar with the business environment and complex legal challenges these companies face. Our legal teams provide clients a broad range of high-quality legal services, encompassing all aspects of the client’s activity in Israel and abroad, tailored to the unique challenges faced by Industrial corporations.

Project and infrastructure financing: The firm handles a significant portion of the infrastructure projects in the Israeli market, particularly in the transportation and energy fields. The firm advises governmental agencies and private sector entities from the formation stages, through statutory and legislative proceedings, to expropriations, tenders, and financing.

Antitrust and competition: The firm specializes in providing ongoing legal counsel to clients regarding complex antitrust and competition matters, including litigation proceedings and administrative, civil and criminal enforcement. The firm regularly provides complex legal opinions on various competition aspects in relation to a wide variety of matters, including monopolies, restrictive agreements and mergers. In addition, the firm builds internal compliance programs tailored to the unique needs of each client.

Environmental law and sustainability: The firm’s attorneys counsel clients on environmental law requirements and advise on licensing and enforcement before the governmental authorities; represent clients in administrative, criminal and civil proceedings; assist in the drafting and implementation of internal enforcement programs; conduct due diligence; represent financial institutions with respect to environmental risk management; and advise companies operating in the energy and water fields.

Regulation: The firm provides comprehensive legal-strategic counsel in the regulation field, advising various business groups and leading corporations operating in a wide variety of fields, including telecommunications and media, cyber security, infrastructure, healthcare, food, economic regulation and more. The firm provides both immediate counsel regarding isolated matters and advice on developing long-term regulatory strategies, based on the extensive knowledge and experience accumulated by the firm in this field.

Banking and finance: The firm handles various domestic and international financing transactions, and advises on ongoing banking activity and activities in all financial services fields, such as securities, custody and brokerage, credit cards and financial derivatives. In recent years, the firm has advised on some of the most complex bank financing transactions in the Israeli market.

Energy and natural resources: The firm is one of the pioneers in the Israeli energy and natural resources field. The firm provides comprehensive professional counsel integrating legal, professional and commercial aspects, from the early development stages of energy projects, throughout their construction and to financial closure and ongoing operation. In addition, the firm possesses extensive experience in complex tenders and providing professional counsel regarding financing models and agreements tailored to the needs of the energy market, including PPA, EPC and O&M agreements. The firm advises developers and corporations regarding the establishment of natural gas power plants, renewable energy projects, natural gas distribution and consumption, and more.

Telecommunication and communications: The firm provides ongoing counsel to various leading companies in the telecommunication, communications and broadcasting fields, with respect to regulations, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, transfers of corporate control, commercial disputes and complex litigation proceedings, including class actions.

Labor law and relocation: The firm provides strategic advice in order to resolve complex human resource management issues, and advises organizations and individuals during reorganization processes, including employee recruitment and termination; collective bargaining; mergers and acquisitions, due diligence; and more. The firm also represents clients before labor courts and governmental authorities, as well as in alternative dispute resolution proceedings. In addition, the firm provides comprehensive legal counsel regarding immigration, visa and relocation matters.

White-collar: The firm is one of the leaders in the white collar defense field. The firm’s attorneys represent senior members of the business and public sectors in criminal cases involving matters such as securities, antitrust, taxation and money laundering, and defense and national security offenses.

Insurance and risk management: The firm possesses professional experience and expertise in a wide variety of insurance maters, both locally and internationally, providing comprehensive counsel to Israel’s largest corporations. Our attorneys specialize in consulting in respect of comprehensive insurance plans, focusing on the quality and scope of insurance coverage, and tailoring innovative solutions for complex risks unique to each client. In addition, we advise insurance companies throughout establishment, acquisition and investment agreements, and more, as well as advise boards of directors and represent insurance companies in claims and class actions. Our firm also possesses significant expertise in the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) domain, providing counsel based on international best practices and methodologies for mapping the client’s exposures and the formation of infrastructure for monitoring, reporting and managing risks.

Libel: The firm has extensive expertise in this field. It represents media outlets and advertising agencies and provides ongoing pre-publication advice on investigative journalism pieces and advertising campaigns. The firm also handles public figures’ libel claims and the defense of media outlets in libel actions.

Intellectual property: The firm handles litigation and diverse commercial issues relating to intellectual property, and represents clients in court proceedings and before the Patent Office in matters concerning copyright, patents, trademarks, trade secrets and more. The firm also provides evaluations, drafts licensing agreements, registers trademarks and advises on OEM license agreements, distribution agreements and VAR agreements. The firm maintains continuous contact with patent, copyright and trademark offices in Israel and abroad.

Class actions and derivative actions: The firm represents leading Israeli and multinational corporations in class actions regarding securities, antitrust, insurance and banking, and consumer protection issues. The firm’s expertise results from representing hundreds of corporate defendants in class actions. This experience enables it to utilize creative tools to prevent the certification of claims as class actions and to resolve disputes through alternative measures while reducing the clients’ exposure to both financial and reputational damage. The firm also has expertise in the representation of clients in derivative actions and represents companies, shareholders, directors and senior executives.

Administrative law: The firm has extensive expertise in this field and represents clients before governmental authorities, administrative law courts and the High Court of Justice, including in matters relating to tenders, communications, and education.

Corporate recovery and insolvency: The firm handles liquidations, receiverships, creditors’ arrangements and reorganizations under bankruptcy protection. The firm’s attorneys have served as or represented, reorganization trustees, receivers, and liquidators in some of the most complex proceedings in Israel. In addition, the firm provides ongoing counsel to corporations and individuals in corporate recovery and economic rehabilitation proceedings.

Lawyer Profiles

Photo	Name	Position	Profile
	Adv Sharon Aloni	Adv. Aloni is a partner in the International Corporate and Securities Department.…	View Profile
	Adv Judy Amidor	Adv. Amidor is a partner in the Corporate and Technology Department. Adv.…	View Profile
	Adv Levy Amitay	Adv. Amitay is Deputy Managing Partner and Co-Head of the Real Estate,…	View Profile
	Adv Avi Arad	Adv. Arad is the Co-Head of the Real Estate, Planning and Construction…	View Profile
	Adv Moti Arad	Adv. Arad is a partner in the Industry and Regulation Department, and…	View Profile
	Adv Tal Atsmon	Adv. Atsmon is Deputy Managing Partner and Co-Head of the Tax Department…	View Profile
	Adv Zvi Bar-Nathan	Adv. Bar-Nathan is Vice Chairman of the firm and Head of the…	View Profile
	Adv Jeremy Benjamin	Adv. Benjamin is a partner and Deputy Department Head of the Corporate, Administrative and…	View Profile
	Adv Hagit Blaiberg	Adv. Blaiberg is the Head of the Corporate, Administrative and Class Action…	View Profile
	Adv Danny Dilbary	Adv. Dilbary is a partner in the International Corporate and Securities Department.…	View Profile
	Adv Asher (Ashi) Engelman	Adv. CPA Engelman is Head of the Corporate Recovery and Insolvency Practice…	View Profile
	Adv Liat Faig-Neuwirth	Adv. and CPA Faig-Neuwirth is Head of the firm’s VAT Practice. Adv.…	View Profile
	Adv Sharon Gazit	Adv. Gazit is the Head of the Corporate and Technology Department and…	View Profile
	Adv Boaz Golan	Adv. Golan is the Head of the Antitrust and Competition Department. Adv.…	View Profile
	Adv Ido Gonen	Adv. Gonen is the Deputy Department Head of the Corporate, Finance and…	View Profile
	Adv Michael Heller	Adv. Heller is a partner and Deputy Department Head of the International…	View Profile
	Adv Ashok J. Chandrasekhar	Adv. Chandrasekhar is the Head of the International Corporate and Securities Department,…	View Profile
	Adv Sagi Kahalani	Adv. Kahalani is a partner in the Corporate, Finance and Infrastructure Department.…	View Profile
	Adv Dr Daphna Kapeliuk	Adv. Dr. Kapeliuk is a partner in the Commercial and International Litigation…	View Profile
	Adv Aaron M. Lampert	Adv. Lampert is a partner in the International Corporate and Securities Department.…	View Profile
	Adv Yehuda (Yudi) Levy	Adv. Yudi Levy is Co-Chairman of the firm, Managing Partner of the…	View Profile
	Adv Dafna Lotan Medvejer	Adv. Lotan Medvejer is a partner in the Corporate, Finance and Infrastructure…	View Profile
	Adv Adam M. Klein	Adv. Klein is a partner and Deputy Department Head of the International Corporate and…	View Profile
	Adv Moshe Mazor	Adv. Mazor is the Head of the Administrative and White Collar Litigation…	View Profile
	Adv Aaron Michaeli	Adv. Michaeli is the Head of the Commercial, Class Action and Insolvency…	View Profile
	Adv Gur Nabel	Adv. Nabel is Head of the Capital Markets Practice in the Corporate…	View Profile
	Adv Gill Nadel	Adv. Nadel is the Head of the firm’s Import, Export and International…	View Profile
	Adv Nimrod Prawer	Adv. Prawer is a partner in the Antitrust and Competition Department. Adv.…	View Profile
	Adv Marc Rabin	Adv. Rabin is a partner in the International Corporate and Securities Department,…	View Profile
	Adv Ofer Ravid	Adv. Ravid is Head of the Labor and Corporate Immigration Department. Adv.…	View Profile
	Adv Idit Reiter	Adv. Reiter is the Head of the Environmental Law and Sustainability Department…	View Profile
	Adv Ariel Rosenberg	Adv. Rosenberg is the Head of the firm’s Banking and Finance Practice.…	View Profile
	Adv Yehuda Rosenthal	Adv. Rosenthal is Vice Head of the Commercial, Class Action and Insolvency…	View Profile
	Adv Benjamin Rotenberg	Adv. Rotenberg is the Head of the Industry and Regulation Department, and…	View Profile
	Adv Liam Schwartz	Adv. Liam Schwartz is Head of the firm’s Corporate Immigration Practice in…	View Profile
	Adv Yaron Sever	Adv. Sever is Co-Head of the Tax Department of the firm, and…	View Profile
	Adv Rami Sofer	Adv. Sofer is the Head of the Corporate, Finance and infrastructure Department,…	View Profile
	Adv Amir Tzafrir	Adv. Tzafrir is Co-Chairman of the firm and a member of its…	View Profile
	Adv Amir Vang	Adv. Vang is Head of the Competition and Regulation Practice within the…	View Profile
	Adv Ari Wechsler	Adv. Wechsler specializes in leading and managing complex real estate transactions, and…	View Profile
	Adv Oren Wolpin	Adv. Wolpin is a Partner in the Corporate and Capital Markets Department.…	View Profile
	Adv Ido Zemach	Adv. Zemach is a partner in the International Corporate and Securities Department.…	View Profile
	Adv Dubi Zoltak	Adv. Dubi Zoltak is the Head of the Corporate and Capital Markets…	View Profile

Comparative Guides

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