Meitar Law Offices

Meitar Law Offices is the leading and largest law firm in Israel. The firm particularly excels in international transactions, high-tech, mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation, banking, taxation, intellectual property, and technology. The firm's legal team consists of over 600 lawyers, patent attorneys, and interns, with a strong reputation and extensive experience in handling a wide range of domestic and international matters.

The firm offers professional legal advice and representation of the highest standard in all areas of commercial law and litigation. Meitar guides its clients through all stages of growth, from initial funding and private placements to investment transactions, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and more.

Values of professionalism and excellence, along with adherence to the highest international standards of quality, guide the firm in providing service to its clients. Many of the partners and attorneys at the firm hold foreign law licenses in addition to their Israeli licenses, and many have worked at leading law firms in the United States and Europe.

Independent international rankings such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, IFLR1000, as well as local ranking guides, consistently rank Meitar as the leading law firm in Israel.

The firm's clients include businesspeople and companies who are among the most active and recognized in business communities in Israel and worldwide, including government companies, global corporations, leading public and private companies in various fields such as technology and high-tech, banking, venture capital and investment funds, energy, pharmaceuticals and medicine, communications and media, real estate, financial services, and more.

The firm has a long tradition of volunteering and social involvement, assistance, and contribution to the community, including pro bono legal advice and donations to organizations related to promoting education in Israel, organizations working to reduce the number of road accident casualties in the country, and assistance to students, new immigrants, and disadvantaged populations.

Key Practice Areas (Partial List)
Mergers and Acquisitions - The firm has prominence and expertise in handling international merger transactions. The firm has handled most of the large merger and acquisition transactions carried out in Israel in recent years, as well as various types of tender offers, corporate reorganizations and conglomerates, changes in corporate capital structures, and more.

High-Tech and Startups - The firm's dominance in this field is reflected in its extensive involvement in handling exits and significant investment transactions in the Israeli high-tech market. The firm represents a long list of leading companies in the high-tech field in Israel and abroad in various transactions, from the establishment stage, ongoing support throughout the company's life, to the Exit stage (sale or IPO).

Corporate - The firm provides legal advice to senior management and boards of directors in leading companies in the Israeli economy, and handles shareholder agreements, options and option agreements, control transfer agreements and control transfers under contested conditions, protections and remedies against takeovers, receiverships, and liquidations.

Litigation - The firm's litigation department is the largest and leading in Israel, with extensive experience in representing clients in commercial cases in various courts and arbitrations in Israel and abroad. The firm's team specializes in representing clients, both Israeli and international, in commercial and business disputes, civil matters, class actions, corporate and securities litigation, intellectual property, real estate, technology, computers and software, communications, taxation, labor law, and environmental issues.

Taxation - The firm provides tax advice and specializes in providing opinions and tax planning in a wide spectrum of issues, including international taxation, and including: corporate restructuring, capital markets, ventures, real estate, VAT and customs. The firm also specializes in representing taxpayers before the Tax Authority and in courts.

Regulation and Administrative Law - Meitar's regulatory department is the largest and leading in this field in Israel. The department specializes in providing advice and guidance to local and international entities in dealing with various government ministries. The attorneys in the department have worked in various governmental and regulatory bodies, and the department is headed by former senior government officials.

Project Finance and Financing Agreements - The firm represents banking corporations and other financial and institutional bodies, including consortiums of banks in providing significant credit. The firm has represented, among others, banking corporations and institutional bodies in providing financing to the largest corporations in Israel, as part of complex financing transactions, for financing control acquisition and merger transactions.

Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions - The firm specializes in providing advice on a wide range of agreements, including research and development agreements, licensing agreements, and agreements for knowledge sharing and transfer. The firm also deals with the registration and enforcement of patents and trademarks, and issues of goodwill and copyright, as well as litigation in all areas of intellectual property.

Commercial Agreements in Israel and Abroad - The firm regularly accompanies many Israeli and international companies in their activities in Israel and abroad and handles, among other things, agency agreements, distribution agreements, goods supply agreements, complex agreements in the field of energy and natural gas transportation, consignment sales agreements, franchise agreements, partnership agreements, strategic collaborations, and JV agreements.

Antitrust and Regulation - The firm, one of the leaders in Israel in the field of antitrust, specializes in planning transaction structures, merger approvals and restrictive arrangements, commercial non-competition agreements, monopolies, government tenders, licenses, and permits.

Capital Markets and Securities - In recent years, the firm has been involved, as the leading law firm, in most stock and bond offerings in Israel. In addition, the firm has handled many capital raisings on the New York and London stock exchanges. The firm handles the establishment of venture capital funds and their ongoing activities, public offerings of securities and bonds in Israel and abroad, private placements, and other complex capital market matters.

Banking - The firm's banking department, which is the leading banking department in Israel, provides legal services to most banking corporations and financial institutions in Israel. The department handles all aspects of the activities of banking corporations and financial institutions, including establishment, licensing, regulation, representation before authorized regulatory bodies, including the Bank of Israel, the Supervisor of Banks, the Insurance Commissioner, the Securities Authority, the Antitrust Commissioner, and more.

Real Estate - The firm handles a large number of significant real estate sale and purchase transactions, real estate development, complex real estate projects (residential, commercial, industrial), agricultural land conversion and development, urban renewal, financing of real estate transactions and projects, lease and rental agreements, development agreements, and planning and construction.

Planning and Construction - The firm specializes in promoting and accompanying some of the largest projects in Israel in the field of real estate and infrastructure. The firm represents its clients in all statutory procedures for approving master plans at all levels and in legal proceedings in various courts. The firm has rich experience in representing clients in betterment levy and development levy proceedings, and has special expertise in representing in land expropriation proceedings and claims for value reduction due to planning impacts.

Non-Profit Organizations - Our firm's non-profit practice is one of the leading in Israel. Our firm represents non-profit organizations from all sectors of the third sector (non-profits, public benefit companies, public and religious endowments, and Ottoman associations) in their establishment, development, and ongoing operations, and provides them with comprehensive legal advice in all areas relevant to their activities.

Administrative Law - The firm handles the preparation of petitions to the High Court of Justice, assistance in preparing draft laws, legal advice on various issues in the field of public administration and regulation, representation and advice to various entities in government and in the Knesset.

Hospitality and Tourism - The firm provides legal services to a large number of clients including local and international hotel chains, real estate groups, hotel owners, and hotel accommodation facilities. Legal advice to the firm's clients in the field of tourism and hospitality also includes handling all aspects and related fields such as planning and construction, labor law, intellectual property and licensing, commercial agreements, and marketing and maintenance agreements, and more.

Energy - The firm handles a wide range of transactions in the field of conventional energy and renewable energy and in the field of regulation in the electricity and natural gas market. Among other things, the firm specializes in advising on obtaining licenses for private electricity production for stations operating on natural gas and for stations operating through solar and wind energy.

Defense Industries, Homeland Security, Cyber, Aviation, and Space - The firm accompanies and advises Israeli and international companies in the field of defense industries, homeland security, cyber, aviation, and space in all regulatory and commercial aspects related to their activities. The firm has unique expertise in the special legal, regulatory, and commercial aspects of these fields, as well as a technological understanding of the industries in question.

Labor Law - The leading firm in Israel in representing high-tech companies on labor law issues. The firm handles employment agreements, employee option plans, collective agreements, labor disputes, employee handling during mergers, and representation in labor courts. The firm has unique experience and knowledge in various fields related to the employment of workers in Israel's knowledge-intensive industries (high tech), including the software industry, electronics industry, semiconductors and electronic components, pharmaceutical industry, biotechnology, aviation, energy, and more.

China and the Far East - The firm's partners have unique, long-standing experience in handling transactions with companies and businesspeople and government officials in China and South Korea. The firm regularly represents various clients in their business activities in China and Korea. The firm collaborates with leading local law firms and provides its clients with all the services they need when entering or continuing business activities in these countries.

Tender Law - The firm handles the writing of tenders in various fields and in large scopes, accompanies tender committees, accompanies tender participants, and represents in administrative petitions in various fields.

Environmental Law - The firm is one of the few firms in Israel specializing in environmental issues. The firm represents leading entities in the field, including some of the largest industrial companies in Israel, companies in the fuel and transportation sector, water and sewage corporations, municipal associations for sewage, and local authorities. The firm assists in preparing risk surveys and preparing the organization for extreme scenarios in the field of the environment.

Work Permits and Expert Mobility - The firm has unique expertise in accompanying and providing legal assistance to corporations and global companies in the processes of issuing permits for foreign experts for the purpose of integrating them into work in Israel. The firm provides professional advice that enables obtaining the required permits legally, in a way that ensures continuous work, free of economic damages or criminal records.

Local Authorities - The firm advises local authorities and accompanies them in their activities, including accompanying authorities in "boundary committees," establishing and representing water and sewage corporations, economic companies, and accompanying projects in municipal areas.

Communications - The Firm has unique experience both in the regulation of communications, journalism, and media. The Firm has handled recent significant transactions in the communications market, representation before the Ministry of Communications, accompanying participants in tenders in communications, including cable television, cellular, international communications services, content agreements, copyright, and defamation.

Liquidations and Receiverships - The firm specializes in the field of receivership, company liquidation, creditor arrangements, and rehabilitation of companies in difficulties. The firm has extensive and diverse experience in handling companies in crisis and has been involved in many cases of complex liquidations, receiverships, and stay of proceedings among the most significant in the Israeli economy. Attorneys at the firm have served and serve as officeholders (liquidators, receivers, or trustees in stay of proceedings) in complex cases of insolvency.

Patents - We provide our clients with services including advice, search, evaluation, opinions, drafting and filing applications for registration of intellectual property rights (patents, trademarks, designs, and plant breeders' rights), handling procedures, examination and registration, due diligence, intervention procedures, and filing oppositions to registration by third parties, in Israel and worldwide. Our comprehensive services include patent registration worldwide, from the United States to the Far East, providing a perfect solution for our clients in the field of intellectual property - from groundbreaking startups to global technological giants.

Community Contribution
The firm has a long tradition of community involvement, strengthening Israeli democracy, and assisting vulnerable populations, and providing legal advice to dozens of non-profit organizations and organizations operating in Israel. The firm focuses on pro bono activities for non-profit organizations and organizations operating in significant areas for Israeli society and its advancement, such as organizations working to promote education, excellence, and sports in Israel, as well as bodies working to reduce the number of road accident casualties in the country and bodies providing assistance to reserve soldiers, new immigrants, and disadvantaged populations.

Our firm emphasizes social involvement and assistance to Israeli society and economy and strengthening Israeli democracy and reserve soldiers in the shadow of the events of October 7, 2023, and has taken part in many volunteer activities in recent years on these issues.