Shoob & Co. Law Office

Real Estate, planning and zoning, complex transactions, Urban Renewal

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2023

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Established: 1957

Line of Business: Real Estate, planning and zoning, complex transactions, Urban Renewal

Address: 5 Hayarkon St., Bnei Brak, lyfe Tower (19 floor)

Phone: 972-3-6942000

Fax: 972-3-6942001

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.shoob.co.il

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The Late Moshe, Shoob, Shoob & Co. Law Office

The Late Moshe, Shoob

Founder

Shoob & Co. Law Office

Shmuel Shoob, Shoob & Co. Law Office

Adv. Shmuel Shoob

Managing Partner

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View ProfileShmuel Shoob

Naama Shif, Shoob & Co. Law Office

Naama Shif

Partner

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Aviad Shoob, Shoob & Co. Law Office

Aviad Shoob

Partner

Shoob & Co. Law Office

Meli Rosenblum, Shoob & Co. Law Office

Meli Rosenblum

Partner

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Shoshi Birzone, Shoob & Co. Law Office

Shoshi Birzone

Partner

Shoob & Co. Law Office

Hila Lavi-Yatim, Shoob & Co. Law Office

Hila Lavi-Yatim

Partner

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Icon About About Shoob & Co. Law Office

Shoob & Co. is one of Israel’s leading real estate law, planning and zoning and urban renewal firms. During its six decades of experience, the firm accumulated in-depth knowledge and professional experience, which brought forth its outstanding reputation.

The firm was established in 1957 by the Late Adv. Moshe Shoob. The firm provides comprehensive solutions in a wide array of legal services pertaining to the real estate sector, in light of its 66 years of extensive expertise in real estate and planning and zoning law. The firm's clientele includes Israel’s leading public and private real estate and construction development and contracting companies, in addition to numerous private clients. The firm maintains a department that specializes in real estate registration, parcellations and multioccupancy houses.

Areas of Expertise

Real Estate Transactions

The firm represents its clients in complex real estate transactions in all stages, from due diligence and counsel on the land acquisition, execution of the transaction, negotiation and drafting relevant agreements, through the process of obtaining approvals for the property’s redevelopment, optimizing the property use, and up to handling matters vis-à-vis the various authorities, including the tax authority.

The firm accompanies clients in transactions vis-à-vis contractors and developers, both in the commercial negotiations and in various contracts, both in residential construction and in commerce, employment, offices, assisted living etc.

 Real Estate Development and Complex Real Estate Matters

Shoob & Co. Law Office accompanies and assists the promotion rezoning plans, both simple and complex, and handles real estate unions and dividing the properties to their rights owners after the land was approved for construction, and in complex proceedings vis-à-vis tax authorities and the municipal planning authorities. The firm accompanied the planning of large land complexes with multiple owners in West Rishon LeZion, the 1,000 complex, Bat Yam, Sde Dov, Ever HaYarkon, Pi Glilot, the Summayl Complex, Herzliya Blue Beach, Netanya, The Big Block, H/500, Tel Aviv Central Stations, large complexes in Hadera, Lincoln Slopes in Haifa, Metropolitan Leisure areas in Petach Tikva and Rishon LeZion, and more.

Shoob & Co. Law Office brings together the landowners in order to jointly further the projects and assists in complex partnership liquidation proceedings.

Urban Renewal

Shoob & Co. Law specializes in the field of urban renewal, promoting thousands of residential units, and represents residents and developers in urban renewal projects, while providing close and comprehensive legal assistance, as of the general decision regarding the execution the project, through analyzing and selecting the developers’ bids, negotiations, escorting of the planning and up to the project’s completion.

Expropriations, Claims Under Clause 197 and Objections

Shoob & Co. Law manages damages claims on grounds of damages due to the approval of a zoning plan (Clause 197) and expropriations damages against the various planning institutes, Israel Roads Company, NTA, the ILA and more. The firm represents rights owners regarding the impact of infrastructure such as the light rail, the metro, etc., and accompanies objections to harmful plans, including the representing objectors and developers.

Betterment Charges and Real Estate Taxation

The firm handles betterment charges including managing proceedings before deciding appraisers, appeal committees and courts, representation vis-à-vis land tax offices, managing objections and appeals of tax assessments, reducing real estate tax and representation on matters of city tax.

Representation in Courts of all Levels

Shoob & Co. Law provides representation before all the relevant courts and tribunals in the real estate and construction field, such as local committees, appeal committees, district committees, administrative petitions, the National Council and more, and in civil and administrative courts, including the Supreme Court.

Legal Precedents

Shoob & Co. Law achieved numerous precedential rulings, including, inter alia:

• “Hamami vs. the Rishon LeZion local committee” case: The Supreme Court ruled for the first time that, as part of a compensation claim relating to the approval of a city master plan that harms a landowner – a relative portion of 40% cannot be deducted from the amount due for compensation as was customary.

• The Israel Fruit Distribution Co. vs. Kfar Saba Local Council - A compensation claim in which the court defined, for the first time, what constitutes “reasonable” damage beyond which the authorities must compensate the property owners.

• Har vs. the Netanya Local Committee - an innovative ruling about the possibility of compensation due to a building moratorium that was caused by a zoning plan.

• Moshe Shoob vs. Bnei Barak Planning and Zoning Committee - A decision of the District Appeals Committee that included the cancellation of conditions according to clauses 77 and 78 published by the Bnei Barak Planning and Zoning Committee that stipulate Tama 38 earthquake retrofit permits on the allocation of public spaces on the ground floor of the properties.

• Shalom Yerushalaim Divon and others vs. The Petah Tikva Local Planning and Building Committee - A Supreme Court ruling following an additional court session, that determined that a rights owner in a land who built an apartment and he/she or their relatives have been residing in it for at least years after the construction completion, would be exempt from betterment charges, regardless of the number of owners of said land who wish to exercise this right.

• Planning and Zoning Committee, Tel Aviv vs. Nof Yam Kahol Lavan Ltd. - The Supreme Court decided that extensive use of a permit is not an independent tax event requiring a betterment charge.

• Savyoni Yavne Ltd. vs. The Local Planning and Zoning Committee Yavne - The court determined that the authorities must compensate a construction company for delaying the planning proceedings in accord with the calculation of the annual loss of return on the land.