Barnea Law Firm

Corporate law is at the core of the legal services we provide to clients throughout all stages of their activities in Israel and abroad.

We serve mainly international players, including top-tier corporations from various industries. Our clients hail from all over the world: USA, UK, Spain, Germany, France, Norway, Japan, China, Brazil, Russia, and more.

We represent both foreign clients coming to do business in Israel and Israeli clients doing business overseas. Counsel extends throughout a client’s entire business life cycle.

We specialize in representing all types of corporations (public and private), and advising on all types of financing and capital raising (including venture capital, banking and financing, support and grants from government institutions, the issuance of shares to the public, and debt raising), as well as on changes to a corporation’s structure in all possible forms (mergers and acquisitions, transfers of control, takeover bids, splits, sales of assets, liquidations, and more).

Our Legal Services

Our services consist of providing strategic advice about the structuring of a transaction and all issues that may arise during the execution. This includes preparing memoranda of understanding, performing due diligence, conducting negotiations, drafting employment agreements, ensuring that requisite approvals are obtained, and providing ongoing assistance until the completion of the transaction.

Thanks to our involvement in the past year in over 120 M&A and investment transactions, at a total value of USD billions, our firm was ranked by Mergermarket, a global research company in the mergers and acquisitions field, as among the top five firms with the highest number of transactions in Israel in 2021.

Barnea Jaffa Lande’s Employment Department has earned a highly esteemed reputation in both Israel and abroad. Local and international employers refer to our firm for advice on various issues – establishing operations in Israel, merger and acquisition transactions, and complex employment processes, such as termination, closure of operations, and relocation.

The employment market has undergone revolutionary changes in the past few years. Reliance on technology (including the integration of AI tools), remote and hybrid work, the integration of diverse populations, and other developments have all demanded flexibility from employers. Our firm advises companies on implementing new work models and on rethinking their existing employment models.

Barnea Jaffa Lande’s Real Estate Department is among the leading practices in Israel in the fields of real estate, urban renewal, and planning and construction.

The team provides legal support for a wide range of real estate transactions, including sale and purchase transactions, entrepreneurship transactions, combination transactions, financing transactions and banking solutions, complex rental transactions (including tailor-made transactions), joint ventures with other entrepreneurs (for which we also draft founders’ agreements and partnership agreements), urban renewal projects, planning and construction projects, purchasing group transactions, and more

Our Real Estate Department possesses extensive experience, including in the commercial real estate sector, and boasts unique expertise in advising on yielding real estate transactions, including for offices, commercial centers, hotels, assisted living centers, logistics centers, etc. The team has provided representation in some of the largest and most significant real estate deals in Israel.

The legal support we provide covers all stages of a real estate transaction, as well as continuous asset management. Services include carrying out all necessary due diligence checks, managing negotiations, signing and completing deals, and providing ongoing and comprehensive legal counsel on real estate asset management, including vis-a-vis tenants and/or other users of the space.

As part of entrepreneurship transactions, the department advises clients from the purchase of land, through construction and completion of the project, until receiving occupancy forms and registering rights at the Land Registry Office.
In addition, the department guides clients in real estate processes vis-a-vis the state authorities, including transactions for the purchase of rights in real estate, as part of tenders published by the Israel Land Authority. We advise from the earliest stage of submission of the tender bid, through negotiations for agreements to finance the purchase, and until completion of all procedures with the Israel Land Authority to grant the rights.

Barnea Jaffa Lande represents some of the leading real estate companies in the Israeli economy on an ongoing basis. Our legal counsel encompasses lease agreements with tenants; engaging with contractors, consultants, and suppliers; obtaining bank or non-bank financing; various planning and construction issues; and registering rights in real estate, including parcelization, registration of condominiums, etc.

In the urban renewal field, the department advises on some of the largest and most significant pinui-binui (vacate and reconstruct) and TAMA 38 projects in the Israel marketplace. The team guides public and private entrepreneurial companies, contractors, and apartment owners through all phases of these projects.

Consumer protection issues have been developing dramatically and rapidly over the last decade, and accordingly, so have the enforcement measures being instituted against commercial companies operating as service-providers, both by regulatory authorities and by consumer groups and organizations.

Our firm provides ongoing legal advisory services to local and international commercial companies in relation to legislative proceedings and policies being set in the field of consumer protection. Our counsel applies to such issues as the implementation and assimilation of all dynamic legislation and compliance with the various regulatory requirements.

We represent commercial companies sued in class actions for violating consumer laws, as well as in disputes relating to uniform contracts and in advertising fraud cases. We also represent clients in administrative procedures taken by various regulators, for instance the Consumer Protection and Fair Trade Authority.