AREAS OF PRACTICE

Barr Dinovetskey & Co. specializes in representation in all types of litigation cases in all courts, including the Supreme Court, the High Court of Justice, the Economic Department of the District Court, the various civil courts, the Family Courts, the Labor Courts, arbitrations, mediations and administrative proceedings.
Our firm’s attorneys have gained extensive experience and unparalleled expertise in managing business and civil disputes in all areas of commercial law, including class actions and derivative claims, shareholder disputes, tenders, hotels, labor law, retail and manufacturer-distributor relations, and in the representation of public corporations, NGOs, individuals, high-net-worth families, and more.
Our team has a particular advantage in its combination of knowledge and experience in the economic and business fields, to craft and bring to fruition optimal solutions for litigation and management of wide-ranging disputes in high public profile cases.

Barr Dinovetskey & Co has considerable experience in alternative dispute resolution mechanisms (arbitration and mediation), where the adjudicator may be chosen and the parties’ control over the decision-making process can be improved.

Our team has represented and represents clients in Israel and abroad in arbitration and mediation cases worth hundreds of millions of shekels.
Barr Dinovetskey & Co. has vast experience in conducting legal proceedings in connection with arbitrations, whether to enforce or to challenge and annul arbitral awards.
Over the years, our firm’s attorneys have served as arbitrators and mediators in a variety of civil, commercial and family disputes.

Barr Dinovetskey & Co. provides comprehensive legal services to its clients with respect to real estate financing, drawing on the unique knowledge of our legal team in real estate and financing matters alike.
Our clients include various funds, companies, and financial institutions which provide hundreds of millions of shekels of real estate financing. We provide end-to-end legal advice and services to our clients, starting as of the due diligence stage, through engagement in financing agreements, planning and creating collateral, to providing counsel on the many issues entailed by financing transactions, commercial loans, debt restructuring, and other credit transactions.

Over the past decade, Barr Dinovetskey & Co. has gained a substantial and exceptional expertise in all aspects of urban redevelopment, with strong focus on representing developers in complex, large-scale projects of thousands of units throughout Israel. Our team provides a comprehensive package for developers in the urban redevelopment field, from the process of selecting a developer, through formulation of an urban redevelopment contract, relocation of tenants, project construction, sale of the developer’s apartments, project occupancy and registration of the apartments as condominiums in the Israel Land Register.
Barr Dinovetskey & Co. is one of the leading firms in this area, and has unmatched experience in handling recalcitrant tenant claims and enforcement of redevelopment agreements. The firm is proud to include among its clients many of the most prominent and long-standing companies in urban renewal, to whom we provide ongoing and comprehensive representation in dozens of projects.
In addition, Barr Dinovetskey & Co. has represented hundreds of rights holders to prove their rights in real estate on a large scale, both in terms of financial value (hundreds of millions of shekels and more) and in of the size of areas involved (hundreds of dunams of land).
In this context, our team led the Kfar Shalem, Tel Aviv ‘eviction-for-fair-compensation’ arrangement, the first of its kind and size in Israel, and has since led dozens of other such arrangements in various locations around the country.
Furthermore, our firm’s attorneys also specialize in resolving disputes that arise in such projects, including representation in litigation before all courts.
The firm’s urban redevelopment practice spans the entire country, and includes significant representation in projects in the south and north of Israel.

Barr Dinovetskey & Co. is one of the preeminent law firms in real estate with an emphasis on income-producing real estate and residential real estate.
The firm has led and leads complex real estate transactions on a large scale, from A to Z, from the various transaction-related due diligence stages, through formation of the legal and tax structure best suited to the needs of the client and the transaction, drafting of sale or purchase contracts, representation in the financing agreements entailed by the construction of the project vis-à-vis the financial institutions, and through to completion of the registration of the rights in the relevant register (either in the Land Register or vis-à-vis the Israel Land Authority).
In this context, the firm provides the full spectrum of legal services to its clients including after the closing of the transaction, such as through advising on land betterment, the planning process vis-à-vis the relevant committees and entities, construction processes, sale and rental of the properties, and more.
The firm’s clients include first-tier public companies, leading private companies and developers, public institutions and private clients.

Barr Dinovetskey & Co. represents a long list of clients in the hotel, tourism and leisure sectors, in all types of transactions made in the industry in Israel and abroad. The firm counts among its clients international and local hotel chains, hotel owners and prominent developers in the field from Israel and overseas.
In this area, we provide our clients comprehensive legal counsel as of the construction of the hotel, including the purchase of the land and/or leasing of the designated building, through the entire licensing process, drafting of contracts with a local or foreign managing entity, and project execution, through to completion and full operation in any format, tailored to the client’s needs.
In addition, the firm provides a full package of sector-specific services for the hotel and hospitality industry, covering the aspects of regulation and licensing, real estate, financing and collateral, corporate law, consumer protection, employment law, commercial litigation, environmental law, dealings with the Ministry of Tourism, including on issues relating to government grants, and more.

Barr Dinovetskey & Co. provides comprehensive legal services in commercial law and in mergers & acquisitions in diverse sectors of commerce, industry and services.
The firm has advised on numerous complex transactions comprising a combination of issues, including aspects of commerce, intellectual property, regulation and taxation.
Our clients include companies and corporations of many kinds, all of whom are advised by the Barr Dinovetskey & Co. team in their day-to-day operations in Israel and represented in their international transactions, including complex mergers and acquisitions.
In this context we provide end-to-end counsel to boards of directors, senior executives and shareholders, and to companies with regard to various commercial issues.

In the context of this close cooperation, our clients are represented by the best attorneys in the high-tech field in Israel and abroad.
This collaboration enables Barr Dinovetskey & Co. to provide a wide range of legal and business services to veteran high-tech companies and start-ups, on both sides of the acquisition transaction.
Under these services, Barr Dinovetskey & Co. supports the company’s entire lifecycle from its founding, through its day-to-day operations, investor recruitment, financing agreements, employment and consulting agreements, commercial agreements, and through to the sale or IPO of the company.
Our clients, together with Weinberg & Co. include leading publicly-traded companies, private companies, investment funds and many start-up companies.

Barr Dinovetskey & Co. boasts a unique specialty in advising on and assisting with family wealth management, which is considered to be one of the most sensitive and complex areas of law. In this context, the firm provides comprehensive legal counsel for wealthy families on the manner of registering their assets, ensuring their management and control, and performing orderly and smooth intergenerational transfers.
To this end, Barr Dinovetskey & Co. applies broad knowledge in real estate and commercial law, along with unique specialties in trust law, including the establishing and advising on Israeli and foreign trusts, and in family law, including the preparation of prenuptial agreements, wills and inheritances.