The planning and construction department at our firm has been active for over two decades, and is considered to be one of the leading departments in this field in Israel. The department is involved in some of the major and most complex projects conducted in Israel, some of which are at the center of public discourse. The department has received widespread acclaim from the leading Dun’s 100 and BDI Code ranking guides, both of whom have ranked it amongst the elite departments in the planning and construction arena.
The department offers its services to some of the largest, most significant state-owned companies in Israel. One such company is Israel Railways, which our team has accompanied from its initial stages of establishment as a state-owned company, and through all aspects of planning, expropriation, devaluation and throughout its property agreement with the state. Another such client is Netivei Israel – National Transport Infrastructure Company, which the department represents in all its ongoing activities, including in their shared routes with Israel Railways.
The department advises entrepreneurs within the infrastructure and energy arenas. It also provides legal services to religious orders that own numerous lands across Israel, while collaborating closely with the firm’s department for religious orders.
Additionally, the department’s team guide and assist entrepreneurs and leading real estate companies in a wide range of residential and commercial projects across the country, representing them at diverse planning and zoning committees throughout objection and appeal processes, assisting them in promoting municipal construction plans, offering professional legal opinions, handling changes of land use, land parcellation, amelioration, and more.
Each year, our firm is responsible for some of the largest, most significant and influential projects within the local construction and development landscape. These have included Road 1, Road 531, Road 16, Road 65-85, the track at Ben Gurion International Airport, electrical supply to the nationwide railways, and adding a fourth lane on Ayalon Highway, amongst many others. Furthermore, our firm accompanies numerous national master zoning plans, as well as local zoning plans.
Our firm has a unique area of expertise pertaining to nationwide infrastructures, and has been representing key governmental infrastructure companies for years, such as Israel Railways, Netivei Israel – National Transport Infrastructure Company, Israel Natural Gas Lines, NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System, which is currently constructing the light-rail in Tel Aviv, Dan Metropoline, Ayalon Highway, and Trans Israel – National Transportation Ventures.
At any given time, the planning and construction department tends to dozens of plans at all ranks of planning and with all planning organizations, including with various infrastructure institutions and with the private sector, accompanies regulation procedures, tends to hundreds of legal proceedings in court and within the court system in issues of expropriation compensations, devaluations and amelioration, and provides hundreds of professional opinions on various issues pertaining to planning construction and expropriation law.
Our clients benefit from a personalized and comprehensive scope of services that is tailored to suit their specific needs, always provided by Israel’s leading attorneys in their field. Being part of a large firm enables us to deeply focus on each and every case, while offering the value of professional, synergetic collaboration with other departments, on matters such as environment protection and commercial law. This unique position greatly enhances our professional legal services, and ultimately works to the advantage of each client, in every case.
