Sygon Halevi, Law Office

Handling projects and/or companies in a state of insolvency require practitioners in the field to have extensive knowledge and experience in various legal specialties, all-embracing professional expertise, financial understanding, and rapid mobilization to deal with a crisis quickly and efficiently, all to achieve optimal results.
The Firm has extensive experience in handling companies and projects in crises, in receiverships and freezing proceedings.
The Firm’s partners serve in senior professional capacities (liquidators, receivers, or trustees) in complex real estate insolvency cases, emphasizing urban renewal projects.

The Firm is entrusted with the representation of creditors, secured and unsecured, in protecting their rights in situations of debtor insolvency, including by realizing assets, dealing with complex conflicts between creditors’ rights and the priority of the collateral to which they are entitled; the legal proceedings before the courts before which the insolvency proceedings are being conducted, etc. The Firm also represents institutional creditors, including leading banks such as Bank Leumi Le’Israel Ltd. and Pepper Bank.
The Firm has unique expertise in foreclosure proceedings of real estate projects that have run into difficulties, including complex cases requiring construction completion and the realization of collateral provided to finance the project.
The Firm specializes in a variety of commercial law aspects. The unique understanding of the Firm’s attorneys affords them the ability and confidence to represent any company and any commercial initiative, whatever its economic and legal complexity.

The Firm prides itself on the personal and meticulous attention that each client receives. This phase – which begins with an accurate strategic analysis of the client’s characteristics and needs and ends with adjusting the legal suit in “personal tailoring” to each client – is one of the Firm’s prominent hallmarks.
The Firm’s expertise extends across all channels of commercial litigation. Inter alia, the Firm has unique experience in class litigation (derivative and class actions). The Firm’s attorneys have a rich background in handling large-scale financial claims.
The Firm also has extensive experience in planning and construction; the attending legal team has earned a significant reputation in leading real estate transactions, large-scale projects, and real estate investment management.
In recent years, the Firm has led several ‘flagship deals’ in the local real estate market. The importance of these transactions is recognized not only because they are complex in terms of the structure of the transaction, both in terms of the legal rights and in terms of the complexity involved in addressing the commercial needs of the parties, but also being large-scale transactions that affect the real estate market.

The Firm provides legal services to many clients, including entrepreneurial companies and leading industry construction companies. The Firm’s clients are among the leaders of the Israeli economy in real estate, both in terms of activity and in terms of capabilities and economic stability.
The Firm accompanies entrepreneurs and companies in real estate and infrastructure in various projects and transactions, including commercial projects, residential projects, industrial projects, projects in sheltered housing, and more. As part of the legal support, the Firm is involved in purchase and sale transactions, large-scale property rentals, combination transactions, the sale of apartments in residential projects. It also represents purchase groups, handles various tenders, condominium registration and parceling.
The Firm provides a complete basket of services–works with its clients in all stages of financing, offers comprehensive advice in real estate taxation, and represents clients actively before the various authorities.

The Firm has significant experience in banking and finance.
The Firm advises financial institutions, including Israeli banks, credit card companies, and other non-banking entities. The legal team works with prominent corporations in the Israeli economy in connection with their current activities and contracts in financing matters with banking institutions.
The team represents entrepreneurial companies in urban renewal and apartment owners and condominium representatives in evacuation-reconstruction and TAMA 38 projects.

The Firm is experienced in accompanying entrepreneurs, apartment owners, and condominium representatives during all stages of urban renewal transactions, including: formulating initial proposals, selecting developers/contractors, negotiating an urban renewal agreement, accompanying clients during all stages of the transaction, including contracting with consultants, lending banks, the Tax Authority and the planning authorities, up to handing over the apartments and amending the registration at the Land Registry.

The legal team handles a wide range of clients, from large real estate companies in the economy through medium and small developers, to apartment owners who want to agree to urban renewal projects regarding the building in which they live.

The team closely monitors every legislative, regulatory, and ruling change relevant to Firm clients and knows how to provide an accurate and up-to-date solution to any problem, no matter how complex it may be.