About

The firm: Ever since it was founded, Agmon with Tulchinsky. has regarded providing the most professional and best-quality service to its clients as its top priority. Its success serves as proof of its commitment to this value which shows that there are no substitutes for professionalism, creativity, dedication and determination. The firm provides clients with close legal counsel and guidance, including legal opinions, transaction support, preparation of agreements and contracts, litigation and handling of crisis situations. Agmon & Co. consists of several departments with excellent reputations and takes pride in representing leading corporations from Israel’s business and economic elite. Among these is the commercial department, which recently expanded following the merger of Ehud Arad & Co. Law Firm. This new addition to the firm will serve to expand the firm’s operations in the fields of M&A and biomed.

Areas of practice
Litigation: the firm represents clients before courts and regulatory tribunals involving a vast array of matters, including: commercial/civil litigation; banking; tenders; class action suits; petitions to the High Court of Justice; antitrust matters; and planning and construction.

Administrative law: a pioneer in administrative and regulatory issues, the firm is a first port of call for clients in dispute with the government. Increasing numbers of clients approach the firm, confident in its successful track record in submitting petitions to the High Court of Justice, as well as its appearances before the courts for administrative affairs, various appeals committees, planning committees and many more.

Corporate: the firm is consistently recognised as one of the leading Israeli law firms in corporate, capital markets and securities. The firm advises public companies and other reporting entities on their ongoing activities and all aspects of corporate and securities law.

Regulation: the firm is acknowledged as one of the leading firms in regulatory law, with many of the firm’s lawyers having held senior positions in various branches of government agencies and bodies, as well as in the country’s leading banks. This inside track and knowledge of Israel’s highly regulated sectors give clients a valuable advantage in the market.

Energy: the firm is a leading firm in Israel in energy law and has been involved in most of the major oil and gas projects in Israel in the last decades. The firm’s services include representing clients in establishing joint venture projects for exploration and production; financing and securitisation of project assets; and agreements for purchase and sale of natural gas. In addition, the firm represents gas and oil companies before the regulatory authorities, as well as in civil and administrative litigation.

M&A: the firm has represented publicly and privately held clients in Israel’s highest and most prominent merger and acquisition transactions, ranging from private equity/venture capital investments in start-ups to cross-border M&A valued at hundreds of millions of dollars.

Antitrust and competition: the firm is one of the top firms in this field. The firm frequently handles mergers, appearing before the Antitrust Authority in hearings and motions for an exemption from a designation as a cartel, and defends respondents charged by the Antitrust Authority.

Planning and construction: a leading firm in this area, it provides consultation and representation before planning and construction committees, appeals committees and the Court of Administrative Affairs.

Real estate: the firm provides a full range of services in the real estate realm (projects, transactions and urban renewal), both in the residential field and in the field of yielding real estate and hotels.

Municipal law: the firm has unique expertise in providing legal counsel to both local authorities and private entities, on a variety of topics related to local authorities and municipalities.

Finance and banking: the firm’s dedicated banking law department combines broad experience in the banking and finance field with specialist knowledge and experience of banking regulation.

Class actions: the firm is constantly ranked at the top of the professional rankings in this field. The firm has handled over 1,000 class action proceedings with an almost perfect record in successfully preventing motions to approve class action suits.

Technology/biomed: the firm advises major hospitals, universities and research bodies on their technology transfer activities.

Environment: The department is one of the first to specialize and gain experience in the field, becoming a key player and working on some of the largest environmental legal cases in the country. The department represents the vast majority of the local industry on varying environmental matters, including regulation, criminal proceedings, compliance programs and class actions.

Insolvency & Restructuring: The department handles all aspects of insolvency law, including corporate restructuring, liquidation, proceedings regarding the responsibility of officers, creditors, individual debtors (bankruptcy) and receivership proceedings. The practice spans over a wide and diverse array of fields – Energy, Real Estate, Banking, Capital Markets, High-tech and more, acting as liquidator and representing debtors as well as creditors.