EBN provides expert legal counsel to Israeli and international companies, individual entrepreneurs and the relevant authorities involved in the development and sale of real estate properties in Israel. The firm is expert at advising its clients on all dealings with the planning and building authorities, including licensing, zoning, regulations and appeals proceedings.
EBN's Real Estate team represents corporations, investment advisors, individual entrepreneurs and financial advisors seeking to maximize the value of real estate holdings in an increasingly sophisticated real estate marketplace. Clients benefit from the wide range of services and broad experience of EBN's Real Estate team and its ability to create novel solutions for large, complex transactions.
A few examples of EBN's Real Estate practice include representations of the following:
- Israel Land Administration (ILA) in the publication of tenders for the sale of various quarry sites;
- Delek Real Estate in the acquisition of a 50% stake in Vitaniya, a real estate firm engaged in real estate development in Israel and overseas;
- Canadian group of investors in a series of multi-million dollar transactions to acquire real estate for future development;
- Pension funds formerly held by the Histadruth (the Israeli major labor union), as part of extraordinary administration by the state, in sale of various real estate properties;
- BIG Shopping Centers in the structuring and acquisition of shopping centers throughout Israel;
- American Israeli Paper Mills in a series of acquisitions of properties earmarked for the construction of a private electricity generation plant. Acquisitions from ILA included transactions exempt from public tender requirements;
- Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim in its application to the National Infrastructure Committee and various Planning Institutions for a permit to construct a private electricity generation plant;
- Ackerstein in a series of real estate transactions;
- Private individuals in appeals, expropriation and rezoning proceedings.