Raphael Melman

Raphael Melman is a partner at Firon Law Firm, heading the corporate and commercial department. Raphael is one of Israel’s most renowned and well-respected attorneys in the field of commercial law, having been representing some of the leading and largest enterprises in Israel for many years. Raphael has extensive experience in advising companies on all aspects of their business activities, from their day-to-day operations to strategic events, including commercial agreements of all types, mergers and acquisitions, litigation and more. In addition to his commercial law practice, Raphael has a rich and practical resume in real estate, infrastructure and tourism, with over three decades of accumulated experience in providing legal support for prominent, large scale transactions and projects. Raphael is also seasoned in a broad range of associated and complementary areas to the projects he handles, such as zoning and planning, real estate taxation, administrative law, tenders and corporate law. Raphael represents some of Israel’s key, leading enterprises and entities. His clientele includes real estate developers, hotel chains, healthcare providers and additional public and private entities with nationwide real estate properties at a collective value of billions of shekels. Raphael’s clients benefit from comprehensive legal services that encompass all aspects of a project, starting with the planning and regulatory stages, through the management and execution of construction, to taxation, regulation, and if necessary, litigation. Alongside his remarkably vast experience, Raphael takes pride in the personal relationships he forms with his clients, typified by maximal responsiveness on his part and up-close, intimate involvement in their business activities. Moreover, Raphael has direct conversance with the myriad of regulatory and municipal bodies, as well as business entities, in the real estate, planning and zoning realms. The above-mentioned, along with his great expertise, facilitate his clients in implementing large-scale, complex projects in the most effective and productive manner. In addition to his work at the Firm, Raphael is a retired combat navigator in the Israeli Air Force · Firon Law Firm