Michael Shine & Partners

Thanks to its many years of experience and connections with financial institutions, law firms, and public auditors worldwide, the Firm is able to serve its clients in any jurisdiction relevant to their situation. In fact, the Firm provides its services when tailored to each client personally, after a detailed analysis of their specific needs, and provides all clients with creative, innovative, and effective solutions.

Protection of Family Wealth, Including Real Estate, Wills and Estates
The Firm is dedicated to building family structures for wealth management, estate planning, wealth protection, and family business organization. To this end, it provides services provided by licensed foreign trust companies operating in several jurisdictions worldwide.
The Firm’s professional team harnesses its extensive knowledge and many years of experience to provide legal services in real estate (while specializing in the representation of foreign residents), commercial law, investments, and transactions with foreign companies. The Firm deals with drafting wills and handling estates, specializing primarily in wills and estates of non-residents and dealing with all complexities involved in merging the relevant laws in different jurisdictions.

Consulting in the Fields of Banking and Compliance
The Firm employs a professional compliance team that deals with the growing needs of its clients vis-a-vis local and international banks. In recent years, the Firm has specialized in advising its clients on banking and compliance issues, including compliance with United States federal law for the enforcement of taxes on foreign accounts – Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (FATCA); the standard intended to collect information on bank accounts of residents of foreign countries for tax enforcement – Common Reporting Standards (CRS); and the provisions of law regarding the prohibition of money laundering.

Private Clients and Globally-Based Companies
The Firm represents private clients worldwide, including individuals and families with equity and family equity funds. Among the Firm’s clients are international companies, financial institutions, and several real estate companies controlled by foreign residents who own commercial properties in Israel.

The Shine Group
In 2010, the Partners established the Shine Group, which comprises three entities:
M.S.A. Shine Global Family Office Ltd. – a company that provides professional financial advice for families living in different countries and investment management services.
Alphen Asset Management A.G. – an independent company in Zurich, Switzerland, licensed to provide investment consulting and asset management services.
Alphen Trust Company A.G. is a licensed trust company in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Partners
The Late Michael Shine (1946-2020) – was a graduate of University College, London and a member of the Bar Association of England. In 1977, Michael Shine opened Michael Shine & Partners and earned an international reputation in the fields of international tax planning, construction and protection of family wealth holdings in various countries, trust law, and trust management. He was recognized as an international authority in private international banking and served as a board member of several foreign private banks.
The Late Michael Shine was a man who strived for justice, a lawyer with extraordinary wisdom and sensitivity towards his clients, admired and loved by all.
Shira Shine, Senior Partner, is an expert and world-renowned defense lawyer vis-à-vis multi-national family wealth, trust laws – their establishment and management, international taxation, the taxation of trusts according to Israeli tax laws, and the management and preservation of family wealth, which also includes the formulation of different legal structures, as well as wills according to trusteeships and wills vis-à-vis wealth in other jurisdictions.
Advocate Shine has served as Chair of the Trust Committee of the Israel Bar Association and also as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Tel Aviv District Committee. Advocate Shine has also been recognized as an expert lawyer in international taxation and trusteeships by leading global rankings; and is a current member of STEP (the International Association for the Management of Trusts and Estates).
Advocate Shine has regularly published and publishes articles in leading journals in Israel and worldwide on international taxation, the taxation of trusts, and the use of trusts as a tool to protect family property.
Advocate Shine advises a limited number of families, to ensure she is always available to provide the best advice on any issue.
Over the past two decades, Advocate Shine has advised families with extremely high net worth, and has gained an international reputation based on her ability to provide innovative and efficient solutions, customized to her clients.
Advocate Alon Shine, Managing Partner – is a graduate of the Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya and holds an LL.B and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Finance. Advocate Shine specializes in the preservation and management of family wealth, financial consulting, including hedge funds, venture capital funds and personally tailored financial instruments, international real estate, startup transactions, international and private banking, corporations, mergers and acquisitions, and trust services.
Advocate Trevor Silverman, Partner – holds an LL.B from Queen Mary University of London (2005), and is qualified to practice law in Wales and England (since 2009) and Israel (since 2014). Advocate Silverman specializes in the protection of family wealth in various countries and judicial instances, in trust law, in the establishment and management of trusts, wills, estates, and inheritances, structuring corporations and trusts, corporate transactions, as well compliance, and CRS issues.
Asher Kenigsberg, Advocate, Head of the Israel Desk – holds an LL.B from Bar Ilan University (2004) and has been a member of the Israel Bar Association since 2005. He specializes in real estate law, has gained extensive experience in managing sales and financing transactions of commercial and income-generating real estate properties, including ongoing support during the commercial negotiation stages and comprehensive handling of the registration and taxation aspects; specializes in the purchase and sale of private real estate properties for investment and residential purposes, including managing negotiations with contractors and project consultants, preparing contractor and consultant agreements, and support until the completion of construction and occupancy.