About The Firm
Aviad, Itach & Co. is an Israeli boutique law firm and notary practice specializing in civil and commercial law, with a particular focus on real estate, litigation and dispute resolution, urban renewal, agricultural holdings and the agricultural sector.
The firm was founded in 2005 by founding partners Adv. and Notary Amitai Aviad and Adv. David Itach. Since its establishment, the firm has represented public and private companies, developers, construction companies and contractors, cooperative associations, landowners, rights holders, family-owned businesses and private clients in complex transactions, projects and legal proceedings.
Aviad, Itach & Co. is ranked by Dun’s 100 among Israel’s leading law firms in real estate, with particular recognition in the fields of agricultural holdings and the agricultural sector. This recognition reflects more than two decades of accumulated experience and the firm’s in-depth knowledge of real estate, commercial transactions and dispute resolution.
Focused Expertise. Broad Perspective.
The firm’s practice is built around complementary departments that work together to provide clients with coordinated and comprehensive legal advice.
Our Real Estate and Commercial Law Department advises on real estate transactions, income-producing properties, project development and ongoing commercial activity. Our Urban Renewal Team represents apartment owners, developers and construction companies in evacuation and reconstruction projects, building-level urban renewal projects and combination transactions.
Our Agricultural Sector Department advises on transactions involving agricultural holdings and auxiliary farms, the regularization and transfer of rights, subdivision of residential plots, intergenerational transfers and arrangements among heirs. Alongside these practices, our Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department represents clients in complex civil and commercial disputes before courts of all instances, as well as in arbitration, mediation and negotiations.
The firm also provides services relating to housing company rights registration, legal advice on artificial intelligence and its responsible use, notarial and apostille services, and legal support in Portugal through a dedicated desk operating from Lisbon.
This combination of practice areas enables us to address matters involving several legal disciplines under one roof. A real estate transaction may require contractual, planning, tax and registration expertise; an urban renewal project may involve financing, securities and disputes among rights holders; and a matter involving an agricultural holding may combine land rights, inheritance, taxation and dealings with governmental authorities.
Experience Translated into Solutions
We approach every matter, transaction and project as a complete system of interests, risks and objectives. Our work therefore begins with understanding the client and the outcome the client seeks to achieve, rather than merely identifying the immediate legal issue.
Each matter is carefully examined from both a legal and practical perspective. We assess the relevant facts, identify risks and available alternatives, and develop a strategy tailored to the circumstances and the client’s objectives.
Our lawyers combine legal precision, commercial understanding and creative thinking in order to provide practical solutions and enable clients to make informed decisions.
Where litigation is required, proceedings are handled with determination, close attention to detail and a clear understanding of the broader commercial context. Where a client’s objectives may be achieved through negotiation, contractual arrangements, advance planning or a commercial solution, we carefully assess and pursue the most appropriate course of action.
The Right Team for Every Client
Our lawyers are selected with care, and each matter is assigned to a team whose expertise and experience correspond to its particular requirements and complexity. Our work is characterized by the personal involvement of the firm’s partners, professional supervision and collaboration among the firm’s departments.
The firm maintains close working relationships with professionals in complementary fields, including accountants, economists, appraisers, architects, surveyors, tax advisers and investigators. Where appropriate, we also collaborate with lawyers possessing specialized expertise in Israel and abroad.
This professional network enables us to provide clients with coordinated legal support and to manage the various aspects of a transaction, project or dispute through a single, central legal team.
Our Clients
The firm’s clients include corporations, public and private companies, construction companies and real estate developers, cooperative associations, family-owned businesses, landowners, holders of agricultural rights, investors and private individuals.
We advise many longstanding clients on an ongoing basis, drawing on a deep understanding of their operations, commercial environment and legal needs. At the same time, every new client receives direct, personal and tailored attention from the outset.
Our Values
Since the firm’s establishment, its founding partners have placed thoroughness, discretion, creativity and uncompromising legal quality at the core of its professional approach. These values are accompanied by accessibility, transparency, responsibility and personal attention.
We believe that high-quality legal service requires more than legal knowledge. It requires a candid and complete professional assessment, a clear explanation of the available options and risks, and the client’s informed participation in material decisions.
For us, the quality of legal representation is measured not only by the outcome, but also by the way in which the matter is handled: the precision of the work, the quality of the analysis, the management of the process and the client’s ability to make decisions with clarity and confidence.
Our professional approach is captured in the principle that guides the firm:
We must find a way, or pave a new one.
The firm's " I believe"
The firm's founding partners are committed to thoroughness, creativity, and uncompromising legal quality in a timely manner, while providing personal attention, extra care for the service experience and adjusting the fee rates, accordingly. Each member of the legal team in our firm has been carefully selected, to match the appropriate team in the office to each client, while analyzing the client's case and his individual needs. We cherish and nurture our old clients who have accompanied us for many years, and we welcome new clients who join our clientele and who will also benefit from the quality of our firm's service and the legal practice that distinguishes us.
In all his areas of practice, our office makes sure to maintain close relationships, both with professionals and experts in their field, such as: accountants, economists, appraisers, and researchers, and on cooperation with leading lawyers in their field, all while providing a high-quality and professional envelope to the firm's clients. Our service model makes us an attractive choice for clients who require legal services, ranging from large and highly sophisticated institutions, public companies, cooperative societies, large companies, etc., to private entities, entrepreneurs and family companies that are among our clientele.
Legal team
The team of lawyers of Aviad Itach & Co. has extensive and in-depth legal experience, knowledge and understanding that lead to the provision of the best legal service to the firm's loyal clientele, in short times and of the highest legal quality, while combining legal, intellectual and creative qualities in providing and adapting the best response and advice to each A client of the firm's clients.
Providing Legal Services for Every Aspect of Real Estate, Including Litigation, with a Niche Specialization in the Agricultural Sector, The firm’s Real Estate and Commercial Law Department offers legal assistance and counsel to numerous residential and urban renewal projects and also provides legal assistance in the development of lands and projects; in real estate development, planning and registration; dissolution of property co-ownerships; assistance in reviewing real estate investments and transactions; heir disputes; estate management; management of sale proceedings; receiverships; multioccupancy houses and comprehensive legal counsel including on aspects of finance, planning and zoning, taxation and ongoing commercial counsel. The department provides close ongoing legal assistance to its clients in diverse and complex transactions in lands and yielding properties, and its clientele includes, among other, real estate developers, public and private construction companies, REITs and real estate partnerships, contractors and landowner. The firm has longstanding professional and unique knowledge on the agricultural sector and it has been accompanying transactions in farmsteads and smallholdings, parcellation of lots, heir right agreements, proceedings for formalizing usage in farmsteads, claims for dissolution of farmsteads co-ownership and many other complex related issues. The litigation department specializes in real estate litigation with an emphasis on finding creative solutions tailored to the legal needs of each and every client. All with uncompromising professional quality.
The Partners
Adv. and Notary Amitai Aviad, Founding Partner
Adv. Aviad heads the firm’s litigation department. He practices commercial litigation in every aspect of the law – complex civil and commercial litigation, corporate law, family law, labor law and more. He has longstanding experience in litigations before courts of all levels. In the framework of his practice, he has represented banking entities, public companies, cooperatives, commercial companies, private individuals and others in the management of complex proceedings before various courts and tribunals.
Over the years, Adv. Aviad has been involved in large and complex transactions and commercial litigation cases, representing institutions, public corporations and senior businesspersons, before courts of all levels and in mediation and arbitration proceedings. His professional experience spans all aspects of civil and commercial law, providing him with a comprehensive perspective to effectively represent clients in complex disputes. His expertise ensures a deep understanding of both the factual intricacies and the legal framework governing each case. Adv. Aviad and the firm’s litigation team strive to guide clients to success while searching for out-of-court solutions, in order to avert existing and future disputes and provide comprehensive solutions that help prevent unnecessary legal conflicts. This principle is part of the litigation’s team leading strategy, with out-of-the-box thinking and positive results with minimal risks.
Adv. David Itach, Founding Partner
Adv. Itach heads the firm’s Real Estate and Commercial Law Department and in this framework he coordinates the real estate and commercial transactions cases while providing close ongoing support to the clients. He has accumulated vast experience in years of practice in top Israeli firms and in Aviad, Itach & Co., and he accompanies large-scale real estate projects, including commercial complexes, warehouses and logistics facilities, residential buildings etc., from the stage of reviewing the plans and lots and full assistance in acquiring the lands, through the planning proceedings and the preparation of the various public tenders and up to the completion of the construction, with legal counsel and representation for every complex legal and commercial issue that may arise in such projects, until their completion. He also has proven experience in all aspects of government land buyout agreements and assigning the development rights in hundreds of dunams in Israel, while representing public companies with extensive property rights. He also accompanies the development and construction of real estate through purchasing groups and urban renewal projects with dozens and hundreds of apartments across Israel. He also represents companies and individuals in sales/acquisitions of various properties, including in the agricultural sector.
Adv. Itach and the firm’s real estate team strive to accompany the clients from the negotiations stage up to the completion of each and every transaction with attention to the uncompromising professionalism and close counsel to the clients with maximal availability, while contributing from the vast professional and business knowledge that the firm and its partners has accumulated over the last twenty years, generating significant cost savings for the client. The department’s team are true dealmakers, viewing any firm-managed transaction that fails to close as a shortcoming of the firm. They believe that a professional and experienced team would always find the right path to complete the transaction.
Adv. Amit Mazor, Partner
Adv. Amit Mazor is a partner in the firm’s litigation department. He has extensive expertise in commercial law in general and in civil-commercial litigation in particular. Adv. Mazor practices civil litigation in every branch of civil law – complex civil and commercial disputes, corporate law, class actions, family law, labor law, contracting lawsuits and more. In the framework of his practice, he represents public companies, private companies, cooperatives, private individuals and more.
Adv. Itamar Brudner Lev, Partner
Adv. Brudner lev is a partner of the firm, and he jointly heads, with Adv. Itach, the firm’s urban renewal department. He has longstanding experience in commercial law and has been accompanying companies, drafting complex commercial agreements particularly in highly complex and specialized field of real estate. In this framework, he has assisted and counseled real estate developers and constructors, contractors and landowners in numerous residential and urban renewal projects, yielding properties and agricultural holdings transactions and property development, planning and registration.
Adv. Shimra Peretz Dahan, Partner
Adv. Peretz Dahan is a partner in the firm’s real estate department and jointly heads, with Adv. Itach, the firm’ agricultural sector practice. She has a deep specialization in real estate in general and in the agricultural and settlements sectors in particular, on matters pertaining to the ILA, Moshavim, Kibbutzim, cooperatives, successors, farm division, representation in sales and purchases of farmsteads, smallholdings, agreements between heirs and owners of rights in the farmstead, farm monetization agreements, drafting unique wills and marital agreements to guarantee the most equitable division of the agricultural estate. In the framework of her practice, Adv. Peretz Dahan offers comprehensive legal counsel in all of the relevant fields, and also serves as a mediator in these matters.
Legal Services
The unique professional knowledge as well as the extensive experience gained by the firm's founding partners during their work in the leading firms in Israel and in law practice for over two decades, enable the firm's clients to receive comprehensive legal and commercial services at the most professional, high-quality, and personal level, in four key areas:
1. Litigation and Dispute Management Department
The Litigation and Dispute Management Department in our office, managed by the founding partner Adv. and Notary Aviad Amitai, specializes in conductingb complex disputes in the field of civil-commercial litigation in all courts, including arbitration and mediation, while representing public and private companies in the various trade sectors, with an emphasis on the Income Generating Properties and real estate industry in Israel.
2. Commercial Real Estate Department
The real estate and commercial department in our firm, managed by founding partner David Itach, attorney, coordinates the field of real estate and commercial transactions while providing ongoing and close support to clients, including analysis of the client's portfolio and its individual and unique needs from a variety of different aspects.
3. Agriculture Sector Department
The department of the agricultural sector in our office, which is managed by the founding partner, Attorney David Itach, has unique and professional knowledge, the result of many years of experience in this field in general and in working with all the various authorities in particular. As part of this professional work, our office cooperates with architects Licensing, tax advisors, surveyors, first-class appraisers, and all this to provide the client with the best professional service, advice and guidance within the complexity that characterizes transactions in this field.
4. Portugal Desk
In 2023, together with attorney Avi Hasson, who has accompanied our firm for years as an external consultant, we established the Portugal Desk, which provides the firm's clients with a variety of legal services in Portugal in particular, and in the countries of the European Union in general. The desk provides representation and legal guidance to buyers and Israeli investors in real estate transactions in Portugal and provides representation and support to Israeli companies in commercial agreements and engagements with Portuguese companies while providing close legal support required for entry into the Portuguese real estate market.
Customers
The firm's clients include public companies, private companies, cooperative societies, and individuals who benefit from the variety of legal services provided by the firm's staff, personally.
Contact
Acro Tower, Tel Aviv, 8 Ytzhak Sadeh, 6777508
Fax: 03-6850043
Phone: 03-6236130