ARNON, TADMOR-LEVY

Arnon, Tadmor-Levy is one of the few top Israeli law firms to maintain a renowned family law practice. This practice is consistently ranked in the BDiCode and enjoys an array of leading practices in taxation, real estate, high-tech, and private and family wealth management.

We provide clear and practical advice in all aspects of family law, including all financial aspects of family dissolution, alimony, and custody, even in complex cases involving sensitive child issues, including complicated cases with international dimensions.

We offer the full spectrum of litigation services in cases of separation or divorce – both in family courts and rabbinical courts, as well as in higher legal forums. We adopt a holistic approach, taking into account both the personal and business aspects involved.

Our services cover all other areas of family law, including complex inheritance disputes, guardianship matters, immigration petitions, and child abduction cases, drafting of prenuptial and divorce agreements, representation in disputes regarding such agreements, and more. We also provide mediation services in family law and inheritance.

Our firm has a long and distinguished list of private clients in family law, which cannot be detailed due to confidentiality.

Among our services, we offer:

• Representation in divorce cases, including property matters, alimony, custody, reconciliation (‘Shalom Bayit’) and divorce petitions.
• Representation in inheritance disputes, including filing objections to wills and claims regarding the scope of estates.
• Representation in immigration claims and claims for the return of abducted children.
• Representation in all guardianship matters, including submitting applications for the appointment of a guardian and for approval of actions on behalf of a ward.
• Representation in claims to prove family ties.
• Drafting of financial agreements and cohabitation agreements.
• Drafting of divorce agreements.
• Drafting of reconciliation, and in the alternative, divorce agreements.
• Drafting of wills, submission of requests for the execution of wills/ requests for inheritance orders.
• Drafting of enduring powers of attorney, and conducting legal proceedings regarding these, including requests for cancellation.
• Family mediation in divorce, inheritance, and other family matters.

Arnon, Tadmor-Levy’s Intellectual Property Department represents both international and Israeli clients in intellectual property matters across a broad range of industries, including high-tech, life sciences and medical technologies, cleantech, agriculture technologies, communications, media, and entertainment.

In addition to our deep understand of intellectual property issues, we are also highly regarded for our business-minded approach and understanding of our clients’ technological fields and the environment in which they operate. This understanding enables our clients to structure, negotiate and close IP transactions effectively and efficiently in a manner that is relevant to the applicable industry.

Our multidisciplinary teams assist clients in all areas of complex cross-border transactions.  In addition to our core intellectual property team, our tax lawyers address treaty implementation, withholding and other tax issues that arise in licensing, distribution, and other commercial arrangements; our antitrust lawyers ensure that clients comply with local and regional competition laws, and our litigation team handles diverse litigation claims related to copyright, trade secret and other commercial licensing issues.

TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSACTIONAL IP

Arnon, Tadmor-Levy’s Technology and IP Commercialization Group serves Israeli and international clients across a wide range of industries. Our team advises with respect to complex licensing and commercial transactions in, among other areas, cyber, communications, internet/ data services, Internet of Things (IoT), infrastructure, mobile, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, homeland security, privacy, data security, e-commerce, information technology, fintech, data storage, software and open source issues, medical devices, life sciences, digital health, cleantech and renewable energy.

We have extensive experience in structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex strategic collaboration, joint venture and co-development transactions, IP and patent licensing, technology transfer arrangements, development and supply agreements, manufacturing, distribution and OEM agreements, and other diverse commercial and corporate finance transactions.

Our team also supports the firm’s Corporate and Commercial Department with IP-related due diligence in M&A and investment transactions, providing advice involving complex legal issues when dealing with sophisticated technology.

Since the firm represents many early-stage companies, our Technology and IP Commercialization Group is highly familiar with emerging trends in cutting-edge technology, as well as with customary commercial practices and commercialization models. We are experts in drafting and negotiating commercial terms and contracts that protect our clients’ intellectual property and other interests. In this way, we help many of our early-stage clients bring their products to market, dealing with issues arising in the development of apps and websites, including privacy and data protection issues.

Our team also has extensive experience with issues related to the Law for Encouragement of Knowledge-Based Industry and working with the Israel Innovation Authority (the IIA, previously known as the Office of the Chief Scientist). Since many Israeli technology companies often receive IIA funding for development work, this expertise is highly valued by our clients. Also appreciated is our collaborative team approach – for example, our ability to call on the expertise of the firm’s Tax and Antitrust Departments as needed. Likewise, our strong relationships with leading foreign law firms enable us to obtain input on global regulatory, distribution, competition, and data protection issues where necessary.

TRADEMARKS

Arnon, Tadmor-Levy’s Trademarks team provides a wide range of services in connection with the registration and protection of trademarks through their correct use and registration, both in Israel and internationally. We assist startups from their earliest stages on everything from the choice of names being trademarked, through strategic planning and registration – both domestically and internationally, to the proper use of trademarks. We also advise large Israeli and multinational companies in connection with complex trademark issues.

Our team:

Performs domestic and international trademark searches for our Israeli and foreign clients, for the purpose of registering new trademarks or locating breaches.

Prepares legal opinions with respect to the suitability of a trademark for use and registration.

Advises on the definitions contained in the trademark application and handles the Trademark Registry process.

Drafts commercial agreements involving trademarks and goodwill.

We also work with foreign colleagues to ensure that our clients’ trademarks in Israel and in other jurisdictions receive optimal protection, representing our clients in trademark litigation in all Israeli courts.

COPYRIGHTS, ENTERTAINMENT AND MEDIA

Arnon, Tadmor-Levy’s Copyrights, Entertainment and Media Department handles a wide variety of legal issues relevant to the media and entertainment industries. We work with website developers, music and literature publishers, record labels and production companies, new media content creators, advertising agencies, public relations agencies, booking service companies, as well as artists, photographers, and producers.

We regularly assist in negotiating production agreements, distribution agreements, licensing agreements with copyright collectives, publishing agreements, writers’ agreements, licensing of works to be used in advertising, broadcast and public performance agreements, and other contracts in this field.

We also advise on matters of copyright law, providing ongoing legal services to broadcasters (including television stations), and representing them before regulators. Our lawyers also have proven expertise in managing complex litigation in copyright and performance claims, from music, publishing, television, and radio to new media, including internet and e-publishing. Representing some of Israel’s largest entertainment companies and many well-known artists, we have been involved in some of the largest such cases in the country.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION

The firm’s Intellectual Property Litigation Department is unique in Israel in terms of the comprehensive range of fields in which we represent our clients, who include technology companies, government entities and media and entertainment clients. Arnon, Tadmor-Levy is one of the few top-tier commercial law firms in Israel that practices IP litigation.

Our IP Litigation team has extensive expertise in dealing with commercial disputes related to patent licensing agreements and blanket copyright licensing agreements. The team is involved in enforcement proceedings involving copyright, patents, trademarks, and related proprietary rights, and also defends against claims in these areas. We handle IP disputes in a wide range of industries as well including music, publishing, television, and radio to new media, including internet and e-publishing. We represent some of Israel’s largest entertainment companies and many well-known artists.

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OFFICES

Arnon, Tadmor-Levy represents some of Israel’s premier academic institutions in technology transfer transactions. The fact that many of Israel’s leading Technology Transfer Offices rely on us is a testament to the high regard in which they hold the firm. Our IP team also works opposite TTOs, both in Israel and abroad, including TTOs at leading universities and medical institutions in Europe, Asia, and the United States.

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS, LEGAL500 | 2024

“The commercial/intellectual property transactions practice combines legal and business knowledge in the areas of licensing, M&A, royalties, ESOPs, etc. Arnon’s team is unique in its professionalism and experience in this practice and its application in many sectors.”

“Their dedicated team of legal experts ensures that clients receive maximum support and assistance, making them a reliable choice for any legal issue. Moreover, the lawyers are not only highly professional, but also incredibly friendly and helpful. They always make us feel available and ready to help, and they take our requests seriously.”

IAM 1000, RECOMMENDED – FIRMS: TRANSACTIONS | 2023

Since combining forces in 2022, Arnon, Tadmor-Levy has grown in size and strength. It offers an increased range of commercial IP and licensing services and has enhanced its stellar technology transactional IP practice group. With a knack for advising clientele in the life sciences and biotechnology industries, the team expertly handles high-stakes cross-border negotiations. The dedicated group boasts the expertise of outstanding and highly experienced attorneys, including Eli Greenbaum. With a background in physics, he has strong technical skills, which allows for smooth communication with inventors. He is also an expert in open-source software. Daniel Green is commercially minded and has his finger on the pulse of global market trends, allowing him to create sharp and effective strategies for service users. Qualified in both Israel and New York, software, and life sciences expert Yoheved Novogroder-Shoshan skillfully find solutions in complex negotiations for players across industries.

The Labor Law practice at Arnon, Tadmor-Levy is among the leading and most experienced in Israel, with a team that has rich experience in advising and representing employers in all aspects of employment relations.

The firm advises Israeli and foreign employers on coping with the dynamic reality of the Israeli work world. The department is at the forefront of legal knowledge and practice, providing clients with practical and creative solutions to the various challenges associated with employing workers.

Our clients in this field include leading Israeli and international corporations employing thousands of workers, start-ups with a few employees, high-tech companies in various sectors such as software and biotechnology, communication companies, traditional industrial companies, construction companies, service companies, and government companies.

The Labor Law department guides and continuously accompanies our clients in all aspects of employment relations, including drafting employment agreements, senior executive agreements, termination agreements, confidentiality and intellectual property rights agreements, employee retention agreements, employee loans, and more. The firm has many foreign clients whom we advise on adapting agreements and employment conditions to Israeli law.

For these clients, we also act as “eyes on the ground.” We view as part of our role updating foreign clients on legal developments, practices, and relevant events that may affect the employment of workers in Israel. The firm has extensive experience in planning and accompanying aspects related to workers, arising in the context of transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, and in the context of downsizing and organizational changes.

The firm specializes in preparing various and diverse compensation plans for workers, such as bonus plans, option plans, compensation in securities, and more.

The firm assists its clients in executing various organizational changes such as reorganization and layoffs, and it closely accompanies clients throughout these complex processes, from the planning stages through decision-making and during the execution, including advising on how to proceed afterward.

In this context, the firm guides clients on how to carry out the process in the best legal way and in a manner that integrates with the client’s organizational goals, how to deal with challenges that emerge during the process, and how to continue after its completion.

Similarly, the Labor Law department is involved in all transactions that the firm accompanies and advises clients on and advises and guides clients on aspects related to existing workers in those transactions, such as transferring employees from one employer to another, drafting relevant agreements and clauses in transaction agreements, employee retention agreements, and advising on decision-making regarding the implementation of the transaction in respect of the relevant employees.

In adapting to the dynamic reality, the firm has expertise in privacy protection in the context of labor law, such as monitoring employees, electronic information and communication in the workplace, and collecting information about employees and protecting it, and registering databases related to employees, etc.

EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND OPTION PLANS

Arnon, Tadmor-Levy provides consulting services to companies at various stages of their life cycle, from start-up companies to established international companies, and assists them in regulating and implementing compensation packages and benefits for their employees according to their different needs. The firm is knowledgeable and experienced in all aspects of formulating and implementing incentive plans for employees, including option plans and stock-based grants.

The firm’s expertise in areas such as corporate law, securities, taxation, and labor law allows for the correct formulation of incentives when composing benefit plans for local and international companies, sometimes in cooperation with leading international firms. We advise on issues such as employee employment, compensation, termination of employment, and other issues in the field of labor law.

Consulting in these areas is provided, among other things, in the context of public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, internal structural changes, and spin-offs. We recognize the complexity in balancing employee compensation and the importance of their growth in the workplace with the dynamics required to manage a profitable, thriving, and successful company. The firm therefore offers its clients consultancy and accompaniment tailored to their needs and in accordance with variables such as the client’s industry, size, objectives, and policy.

LABOR LAW LITIGATION

The firm specializes in all types of litigation in the field of labor law and represents employers in employee lawsuits of all kinds. The firm deals with issues related to protective rights under labor laws, complex disputes between employers and former employees, representative litigation in the field of labor law, mediation, conciliation and arbitration processes, and requests for temporary remedies such as injunctions to limit occupation or prevent dismissals.

The firm represents its clients before various authorities such as State authorities and government ministries in various proceedings such as requests for permits (dismissal permits for protected populations, requests for exceptional work permits), appeals, etc.

Our attorneys accompany our clients in investigation processes of the Ministry of Economy in matters related to labor law and advise them regularly on the implementation of laws, such as the law to strengthen the enforcement of labor laws. The firm’s expertise in representative litigation is also reflected in labor courts, where the firm represents its clients in representative claims on various employee rights.

COLLECTIVE LABOR LAW

The firm accompanies companies in the initial organization of workers, as well as in the ongoing conduct with employee representatives, including negotiations and signing collective agreements. The firm represents its clients in labor courts in collective labor disputes, including injunctions to prevent organizational measures.

The firm also represents worker committees and accompanies them in communications with the management branch, including negotiations for signing collective agreements and labor disputes.

FOREIGN EXPERT VISAS

The firm accompanies its clients in obtaining work permits and visas for foreign experts in cases where the bringing in and employment of foreign experts from abroad in Israel is required.

CLIENTS TESTIMONIALS, LEGAL500 | 2024

“This is the best employment practice group in Israel. Business savvy. Top professional advice and guidance, provided in a quick, pleasant and professional manner.”

“We have worked with many employment law attorneys during my 20 years of legal practice and none compare to this group.”

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS, CHAMBERS GLOBAL | 2024

“The team at Arnon is capable of taking a complicated issue, simplifying it and offering clear advice.”

“The work the firm did for us involved not only great knowledge and understanding of employment laws, but also an understanding of our specific industry. Arnon, Tadmor-Levy performed to the highest levels on all counts. “

CLIENTS TESTIMONIALS, LEGAL500 | 2023

‘Both Tal Keret and Shira Cohen-Mazor are stars in this field of law. I would provide the highest recommendation to any client; they are the go-to team if you can retain their services.’

‘Tal Keret and Shira Cohen-Mazor are outstanding professionals and bright legal minds. They master the knowledge and understanding, can immediately understand complex or sensitive situations and are able to come up with not only analysis in a clear manner, but also creative and wise solutions.‘

‘The team is energetic and active, exceptionally efficient and professional and very pleasant and communicative.‘

‘Exposure to many areas in the employment world. Extensive knowledge and experience and familiarity with many cases. Practical thinking and practical and relevant advice. Shira Lahat is a real expert in her field, available, accessible and a real partner for professional thinking.‘

‘I have worked with the firm for six years in the field of labour law. The team is excellent. Lawyers are very professional, provide quality and responsive service and give creative solutions. We really enjoy working with the lawyers who work for us.’

The Arnon, Tadmor-Levy Real Estate Department is not only the largest in the firm, but also one of the largest, leading and most established such departments in Israel. Our lawyers and partners have a wealth of experience and expertise, which enables them to provide a comprehensive service to the firm’s clients, covering the whole range of issues that may arise in all areas of real estate, and to the tightest schedules.

The Real Estate Department is experienced in supporting clients in real estate activities concerning private residences, offices, shopping centers, hotels, assisted living, and more. We work on real estate transactions, purchase and sale of real estate companies, combination deals, contractor agreements, purchase groups, buyer groups, urban renewal, and any real estate transaction and activity, simple or complex, regarding private land and land administration.

Representing parties on either side of the table, our clients include international and Israeli companies, investment companies, construction companies, Israeli and foreign banks, entrepreneurial companies, private entrepreneurs and other individuals. We also represent one of the leading and largest companies in the market, and handle and support a significant proportion of the projects and large transactions in the real estate sector in Israel.

Supporting clients through all stages of a transaction, our services cover due diligence, formation of transaction structures and examination of tax considerations, legal support with planning procedures, including preparing city building plans, supporting construction and contracting with executive planners, and marketing – for both sale and rental. We also undertake litigation proceedings, representing our clients before planning committees and appeals committees, in procedures regarding betterment levies, and other legal proceedings in court or in arbitration. Depending on the issue at hand, we bring in other departments of the firm, for example, Capital Markets, Tax, Litigation, and more, as required.

REAL ESTATE FINANCING

The Real Estate Department specializes in transaction financing and other financial aspects of transactions. Our partners and lawyers support clients in diverse and complex transactions, which include various types of credit (such as financial credit, Sales Law guarantees, and more), representing both financial entities that finance the transactions, including banks, insurance companies and other financial entities, and (in other cases) entrepreneurs and companies that receive funding.

In cooperation with the firm’s Capital Markets Department, we support the real estate aspects involved in syndication transactions between financiers, and financing of transactions carried out in the capital market, such as asset securitization transactions.

URBAN RENEWAL

Large parts of the State of Israel are based on ‘old’ planning that does not make optimal use of urban space. Many buildings are old and dilapidated, and are not resistant to external events such as earthquakes. This is just one of the reasons that urban renewal processes have become very common in the last decade. Indeed, such projects are a key growth engine in the Israeli real estate market.

The lawyers and partners in our Real Estate Department are involved in hundreds of urban renewal projects, of all types and from all ‘angles’, from structural strengthening projects and ‘small’ construction additions of individual apartments, to huge projects that involve the demolition of hundreds of units and the construction of hundreds, and even thousands, of new apartments in their place.

We have supported, and continue to support, every type of party that operates in the field – real estate companies, government companies (for public housing), entrepreneurs, contractors, financial entities and more. Our wide-ranging experience, and familiarity and understanding of the economic and legal interests of the parties involved, enable us to find precise and creative solutions for our clients.

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS, THE LEGAL 500 | 2024

“An extremely bright and efficient team. They problem solve on difficult contracts, while keeping us protected constantly by explaining to us exposure levels — and all this within great time frames. It has a unique way of giving us the feeling that it is a boutique firm, but can also bring in other professionals as needed.”

“I think the most important part for a developer is to know that their legal team understands them, as well as the level of risk tolerance. Over time, working intensively with the firm, I have gotten to know the managing partners and the executive team and I am in awe at the extensive knowledge they have.”

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS, CHAMBERS GLOBAL | 2024

“Arnon, Tadmor-Levy is a well-established and very experienced firm. It has good connections with different authorities, is respected in the market and is strong in negotiations.”

“They make every effort to enable me to carry out the business plans I set out. I work mainly with the real estate team, but the firm has the ability to provide legal solutions in every field. The real estate team is very diverse in the subspecialties of the team members.”

WHAT THE TEAM IS KNOWN FOR, CHAMBERS GLOBAL | 2023

“The law firm is distinguished in Israel for offering a wealth of experience in real estate transactions. Its real estate team is involved in a wide variety of residential, urban renewal, commercial, leisure and infrastructure projects. With offices in both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, it has an impressive client roster that includes contractors, developers, owners, tenants and financial institutions. It also advises governmental companies and non-profit organizations, and offers further strength in construction financing and land acquisitions.”

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS, THE LEGAL 500 | 2023

“Arnon’s real estate team is one of the largest and most experienced that I have worked with.”

“Highly professional, skilled, responsive and provides top legal services. The team deals with complex real estate transactions, especially urban renewal projects. While our company works with other firms, Arnon, Tadmor-Levy is our first choice regarding real estate and construction practice.”

“The team as a whole is very attentive and gets us what we need. We particularly benefit from the team’s broad legal perspective and its ability to combine forces with other experts in the firm, in a way that ensures a systemic approach to the issues at hand and reaches the best solutions for us.”