Lawyers in Israel

Ran Vishnievsky

Mr. Vishnievsky is a senior associate in FBC’s Real Estate Department. Mr. Vishnievsky advises clients on various real estate projects. His practice concentrates on residential, offices and commercial projects, including large-scale purchase groups and the representation of entrepreneurs. Mr. Vishnievsky advises on all aspects of initiating and establishing residential and commercial projects, including planning the outline of the acquisition; financing the acquisition and establishing the project; managing negotiations and finalizing agreements with contractors, service providers and financial institutions; consulting on relations with municipal councils and planning authorities and real estate taxation. Mr. Vishnievsky is well experienced in dealing with the Land Registry Office, Israel Land Authority, municipal councils, planning authorities etc.

FISCHER (FBC & Co.)

Ran Vogel

Partner

S. Horowitz & Co

Ran Yaacov Keinan

Partner, Litigation and Class Action department

S. Friedman, Abramson & Co.

Rani Hirsh

Partner

Herzog Fox & Neeman

Rani M. Haj-Yachya

Associate, Of-Counsel

Gornitzky & Co.

Ranit Kessous Katz

Partner

Amit, Pollak, Matalon

Rany Schwartz

Founding Partner and Head of Tax Litigation at Yetax Civil and criminal tax litigation, indirect taxation, real estate taxation

Yaron-Eldar, Paller, Schwartz & Co. Law Offices

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

Ravit Koren

Ravit Koren is a partner in the firm's Commercial Litigation Department. Ravit specializes, inter alia, in class actions pertaining to all disciplines. Ravit served as a teaching assistant in a civil procedure course of Prof. Alon Klement and the honorable District Court Justice Rami Amir (2011-2014). In addition, she served as an acting director of Prof. Alon Klement's Class Actions Clinic (2012) and as a teaching assistant in a constitutional law course of Prof. Yoram Rabin (2010-2011). Furthermore, Ravit volunteered in Perach organization, serving as a project manager (2007-2009).

Firon Law Firm

Ray Cohen

Associate

Gornitzky & Co.

Rayek Khoury

Partner

Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.

Raz Nizri

Adv. Raz Nizri is a partner in the firm, and heads of public law, crisis management and regulation at Firon Law Firm. Throughout his career, Adv. Nizri has established himself as one of the most highly regarded deputy legal advisors and is considered a leading candidate for providing legal consultation to the government. In his previous roles, he was instrumental in providing expert advice on some of the most critical legal issues facing the country. During his tenure as a senior deputy legal advisor to the government, a position he held until 2011, Adv. Nizri played a crucial role in addressing a wide range of significant legal issues, such as the Harpaz affair, the Greek island affair, the trials of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Moshe Katsav, as well as ministers Haim Ramon, Tzachi Hanegbi (the political appointments affair), Avraham Hirchson and Shlomo Benizri, Knesset members Azmi Bishara and Yehiel Hazan (the double voting affair), Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger, the Anat Kamm-Uri Blau affair, the Barak Foundation affair, the Mizrahi affair (secret surveillance in the police); the Glatt-Berkovich affair (the theft of the Cyril Kern case), Elhanan Tannenbaum, and Mordechai Vanunu. He also played a vital role in coordinating legal advice on issues such as secret surveillance in the Shin Bet and the police, targeted killings, Nohal Shachen (lit. neighbor procedure, advance warning that is given by IDF to civilians before a building is targeted), handling incitement and rebellion, providing legal guidance in the disengagement plan and other matters. As deputy attorney general for criminal law, a position he held until June 2017, Nizri was responsible for providing legal counseling to the government and various public bodies on issues related to law enforcement tools, determining legislative policy in the criminal field and interpreting it; coordinating between government ministries, formulating policy and consolidating professional consulting and legislative actions in the aforementioned fields, particularly with the Ministry of National Security, the police, the Shin Bet, the Israeli Prison Service and the IDF.Top of FormBottom of Form In this role, Nizri worked with the attorney general and the attorney general’s office on handling cases and addressing criminal issues under the authority of the attorney general. He was involved in several high-profile cases, including an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sara Netanyahu cases, as well as cases involving ministers Aryeh Deri, Haim Katz, Silvan Shalom, and Avigdor Lieberman, Knesset members Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Isaac Herzog and Faina Kirschenbaum, Judge Yoram Danziger, Rabbi Dov Lior, Shula Zaken, Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, Ephraim Bracha, Gal Hirsch, the Prisoner X case, national security cases, and more. Additionally, he participated in meetings of the political-security cabinet on behalf of the attorney general, including cabinet discussions on Operation Pillar of Defense and Operation Protective Edge, as well as in ministerial committees and Knesset committees on various security and criminal issues. In January 2017, Nizri was appointed to simultaneously serve as the deputy attorney general of public-constitutional law. In this role, he was responsible for providing legal counseling to the government and various public bodies, as well as accompanying and promoting legislation. This included laws related to fundamental rights and human rights, family law and religious courts, social law, education and higher education laws, health laws, the adaptation of legislation in Judea and Samaria, equal opportunities at work and for people with disabilities, and more. He frequently participated in government meetings as a representative of the Attorney General, addressing legal issues that were discussed. Among the main projects overseen by the department headed by Nizri: the draft of Basic Law: Legislation, Basic Law: Israel – The Nation State of the Jewish People, amendments to the Basic Budget Law (discipline), Reform of the Civil Procedure regulations, The Privacy Protection Bill (enforcement powers), pension arrangements for security agencies, a bill on the death penalty for terrorists, placing cameras in geriatric hospitals, the Sperm Bank Bill, adoption and surrogacy regulations, alimony reform, the special education reform, the declaration of Ariel University as a university, amendments to Basic Law: The Government regarding the rotation government, the “increases of the Chief of General Staff,” the mediation pensions, and more. In May 2018, in addition to his position as deputy attorney general of public-constitutional law, Nizri was appointed as deputy attorney general of management and special duties. In this role, he was responsible for managing the Consulting and Legislation Department, one of the two central headquarter units under the attorney general. He helped formulate processes and work theory, lead planning and control organization processes, centralized annual work plans, and more. Additionally, he assisted the attorney general in sensitive and complex issues, including providing assistance in criminal cases involving public figures that reach the advisor’s decision. At the beginning of 2020, with the outbreak of the coronavirus, Nizri was appointed, on behalf of the Attorney General, as the head of the legal system that accompanied the fight against the virus. In this role, he participated in meetings of the Corona Cabinet and other forums, and was responsible for the legal accompaniment of all legal issues that arose in relation to the state’s efforts to prevent the spread of the virus, both in legislative procedures and regulations on the subject, and in ongoing advisory issues. Nizri also headed the legal team that handled all legal issues related to the Knesset election systems in recent years, including the 4 election systems for the 21st Knesset elections to the 24th Knesset elections.Top of FormBottom of Form Attorney Nizri holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law and Political Science with honors, as well as a Master’s degree in Law with honors from Bar-Ilan University. He qualified as a lawyer in 2001. He is also a lecturer at Tel Aviv University on various legal issues in different forums.

Firon Law Firm

Raz Ofer

Partner

Herzog Fox & Neeman

Raz Tepper

Mr. Tepper is co-head of FBC’s Hi-Tech Department and a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department. Mr. Tepper has a diverse corporate practice, encompassing mergers and acquisitions, securities law, corporate finance, and general corporate matters. He has represented public and private acquirers and target companies, and private equity firms and investment banks in a variety of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions transactions, divestitures, joint ventures, restructurings, and other corporate matters. In addition, Mr. Tepper provides day-to-day counseling to the firm's technology clients with a particular focus on life science and medical service providers, playing a key role in advising clients in all stages of their development, from start-up through to public offering. Mr. Tepper has been involved in the establishment and representation of private investment and private equity funds. In addition, Mr. Tepper has an active practice representing international clients in their business activities in Israel. Mr. Tepper joined the firm in 1999 and during the years 2001 and 2005, Mr. Tepper was an associate in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where he was involved in a number of significant merger and acquisition transactions.

FISCHER (FBC & Co.)

Ra’anan Sagi

Partner

Herzog Fox & Neeman

Rebecca Fisher

Partner

Meitar Law Offices

Rebecca Genis Shepetovsky

Partner

Gornitzky & Co.

Rehan Oded

Partner, Corporate and Commercial Law

S. Friedman, Abramson & Co.

Rei Even-Chen

Herzog Fox & Neeman

Renana Grinberg

Partner

Amit, Pollak, Matalon

Renana Lev

Senior Counsel

Goldfarb Gross Seligman & Co.

Renato Jarach

Renato Jarach is a partner at Firon Law Firm, heading the administrative law and tenders litigation department. Renato is one of Israel’s most seasoned and esteemed attorneys in the areas of administrative, public and constitutional law. His vast experience includes 16 years of service at the State Attorney’s Office, where he reached the coveted position of Head of the High Court of Justice Litigation Department. Upon completion of his senior public tenures, Renato shifted his focus to the private sector and has since accumulated three decades of hands-on experience in representing leading enterprises in their business relationships with governmental and municipal agencies and authorities. This unique, twofold experience, incorporating perspectives from both the public and private sectors, gives Renato an exclusive ability to handle elaborate administrative matters with unparalleled professionalism among his Israeli colleagues in this area of practice. Renato’s impressive resume includes hundreds of appearances before the Supreme Court, district courts and magistrate courts, alongside appearances before planning & zoning committees and other tribunals. He specializes in the full spectrum of administrative litigation and over the years has handled a myriad of petitions against different administrative authorities, including petitions of assorted constitutional matters, in the areas of tenders, real estate planning & zoning and many more. Likewise, Renato practices civil litigation concerning intricate legal issues. In addition to his respected work before the bench, Renato has a rich practice in the area of tenders. This practice includes actual representation of tender bidders throughout all the stages of a tender, representation of tender committees in government-owned companies, as well as targeted advice on various legal matters, provided to both tender bidders and tender issuers. Renato’s clientele includes prominent private and publicly traded companies in Israel, governmental and municipal ministries agencies and authorities, different quasi-governmental bodies, senior public entities, as well foreign business people and enterprises operating in Israel.

Firon Law Firm

Renelle Joffe

Partner

Meitar Law Offices

Reut Alcalay

Partner

Herzog Fox & Neeman