Practice Areas
Commercial and corporate litigation
Restructuring and Insolvency
Capital
Markets
International commercial transactions
Real estate
Financing transactions
The litigation department, led by Attorney Yoel Freilich, provides legal representation in complex, high-profile disputes. Attorney Freilich is the author of the book “Interim and Immediate Remedies in Business Law”, which is frequently cited in court rulings.
The firm represents its clients before all judicial instances in Israel, including the Economic Department of the District Court, the Supreme Court, arbitration proceedings, mediation processes, and more.
The firm has extensive experience handling some of the most complex commercial and corporate disputes in the market, such as securities holders’ claims, officers’ and directors’ liability, shareholder disputes, control battles, oppression claims, and large-scale contractual disputes, among others.
The firm also has a unique specialization in class actions and derivative claims in securities law and consumer-related fields.
The firm is consistently ranked by various legal directories as one of the leading and most prominent law firms in the field of litigation.
The firm has been active in the capital markets field since 1994. In this framework, it provides ongoing legal support to corporations, including work with the Israel Securities Authority, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, underwriters, and other market participants.
The firm regularly advises a wide range of public companies across various sectors and supports their corporate activities, including dealings with the Securities Authority, the Capital Market Authority, and the Stock Exchange. Its work includes mergers and acquisitions of publicly traded companies, Nasdaq listings through SPAC transactions, reverse mergers with public shell companies in Israel, and the development of creative solutions for complex corporate and capital market issues.
The firm is also involved in leading precedent-setting transactions, including mergers structured through unique and innovative frameworks.
The firm has been active since 1994 in the field of the capital market in which framework the firm provides ongoing support to corporations – proactive communication with the Securities Authority and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, underwriters and other parties active in the market. In 2021, the firm, together with Aviva Ben Moshe, CPA (who until 2020 was a senior member of the Israeli Securities Authority for over 31 years), founded a specialized company – Harpoon Capital Consulting Ltd.
Harpoon provides consulting services, ongoing guidance and expert opinions in the financial regulation, corporate governance, and accounting.
Harpoon advises in complex transactions, public and private offerings, intricate regulatory situations, formulating innovative financial instruments and more.
Harpoon’s activity in the capital market is based on the partners’ many years of experience as well as having a skilled team of professionals.
The firm provides ongoing support to diverse public corporations in various spheres, and in that framework, is retained to deal with their corporate activity including vis-a-vis the Securities Authority, the Capital Market Authority and the Stock Exchange, mergers and acquisitions of trading companies, listings for trading on the NASDAQ in the framework of SPAC transactions, merger transactions with dormant stock exchange companies in Israel, and provides creative solutions to complex issues in the corporate world and the capital market and is a leader in groundbreaking transactions in the framework of mergers in unique structures and the like.
The firm provides advisory and legal services in sale transactions, leasing and rental agreements, financing and acquisition of income-generating properties, and the development and support of real estate projects, including TAMA 38 initiatives. It also handles the legal aspects related to the hospitality industry, among other areas.
The firm has extensive experience and expertise in advising banking and non-banking credit institutions, initiating and handling various aspects of corporate finance transactions, and a particular specialization in providing legal counsel to Israeli and foreign clients regarding the legal aspects of creating, registering, and enforcing securities and collateral in Israel.