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Practice 02

Corporate & Commercial

The documents a business actually runs on — how the company is owned and governed, what the owners have agreed between themselves, and what the company has agreed with everyone else.

How we work on these matters

Corporate and commercial drafting is where most disputes are either prevented or created. We write constitutional documents, shareholder arrangements and contracts as instruments that will have to hold up in a disagreement, not only as papers that record a deal everyone currently likes.

For international groups the second question is always fit. An Israeli subsidiary or joint venture sits under a parent company, a group policy and often a contract governed by foreign law. We draft the Israeli layer so that it holds together with what is already in place above it.

We negotiate alongside our clients rather than behind them, in English, and we stay available for the routine corporate work that follows — resolutions, filings, changes of officers and transfers of shares.

What this practice covers

  • Company formation

    Incorporating the Israeli company and putting its founding documents in place.

  • Corporate governance

    Boards, officers, resolutions and reserved matters: who decides what, and how the decision is recorded.

  • Shareholder and founder agreements

    What the owners have agreed between themselves — control, funding, transfer of shares, deadlock and exit.

  • Commercial contracts

    The general run of business agreements, drafted or reviewed against Israeli commercial practice.

  • Service and supply agreements

    Terms for providing or receiving services and goods, including liability, payment, term and termination.

  • Distribution and agency agreements

    Arrangements with Israeli distributors and agents, and the obligations that follow when such an arrangement ends.

  • Joint ventures

    Structuring a shared venture in Israel: contributions, control, funding, and what happens if the partners part.

  • Strategic partnerships

    Longer-term commercial alliances that stop short of a joint venture but still need written terms.

  • Contract negotiations

    Sitting in the negotiation with you, and turning what is agreed into drafting that works in Israel.

  • Ongoing corporate legal counsel

    Continuing counsel for the Israeli entity: resolutions, filings, officer changes and share transfers.

  • Commercial risk management

    Reviewing the exposure a contract or a structure creates while it can still be changed.

  • Shareholder and partnership disputes

    Disagreements between owners, handled commercially first and, where that fails, as litigation.

Doing Business in Israel

Where the Israeli presence is set up in the first place, before there is anything to govern.

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Banking, Payments & Financial Compliance

Because a transaction that cannot be paid for is not closed, and Israeli banks review the payment as well as the contract.

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Dispute Resolution & Litigation

Where a shareholder or contract disagreement stops being commercial and has to be run as a case.

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Discuss Your Business or Legal Matter in Israel

Tell us what you are dealing with and where it stands. We will tell you what it involves in Israel and who at the firm will handle it.

Discuss Your Matter