About

Anat Biran, Law Offices is one of Israel’s leading law firms in the fields of planning, construction, and real estate issues, among Israel’s top five boutique-sized law firms. The Firm, founded in 2009 by Advocate Anat Biran, specializes in planning, construction, real estate, environmental quality, administrative, and municipal law issues. The firm is involved in hundreds of projects, as well as complex and unique legal issues, providing comprehensive legal services to client including entrepreneurs, residents, tenants, landowners, construction companies, public, governmental, and municipal authorities. The Firm boasts its professional development, teamwork, creative thinking, and superb interpersonal skills.

Practice Fields

Counsel and Representation in Planning Procedures (Municipal Outline Plan)

The team specializes in support for all plans throughout all stages of preparing the municipal outline plan, including the early stages, up to its approval by the planning authorities, representation in objection procedures, hearings before the local, district and national planning authorities, and in all legal instances, including drafting transaction documents, and execution of the transaction.

Building Permits - Building Permits, Concessions, and Exceptional Use

The Firm counsels its clients during licensing procedures, upon receiving information from the local planning committee, to drafting the permit requests, preparing written professional reviews, representation during objections procedures, appeals to the relevant planning and construction appeals committees, and additional committees, and administrative petitions.

Urban Renewal and TAMA 38

The team counsels many urban renewals and TAMA 38 clients, in both the contractual-legal phase and the planning and licensing phase, from signing the land right holders, representation on the planning committees during the plan’s approval process, up to approval of the plan, and project execution. Moreover, the team counsels' tenants and representatives of various neighborhood and building residents’ committees, interested in a TAMA 38 or urban renewal project, including locating a developer, negotiating through the contract stage, and legal support for the residents up to receiving their new home.

Compensation Claims and Betterment Levies

The Firm counsels with critical appraisers, appeal committees and courts, and represents building owners in large compensation claims for impairment losses resulting from the Tel Aviv Municipal conservation plan, in addition to many other clients in complex betterment levies cases.

Litigation Procedures Before Judicial and Quasi - Judicial Instances

The firm specializes in administrative motions, injunctions, High Court of Justice petitions, development levy legal actions, representation before the Land Administrator and in objections before the various planning committees, and appeals before the District and National Appeals Committees.

Environmental Matters Representation

The firm represents and counsels regarding environmental matters, including advice pertaining to compliance with environmental laws necessary for various programs and permits, and representation in diverse proceedings in accordance with environmental laws.

Representation in Criminal Proceedings under the Planning and Building Law

The firm represents clients in diverse courts in complex criminal proceedings under the Planning and Building Law and the Business Licensing Law, concurrently with building legalization and licensing procedures and planning.

Municipal Matters

The firm handles procedures regarding development levies and fees, business licensing procedures, criminal proceedings, and support in different issues in the municipal and administrative fields, including tenders' law, and procedures relating to municipal tax debts.

Founder - Adv. Anat Biran (Rekem)

Adv. Anat Biran is one of Israel’s leading and most prominent advocates in the field of planning, construction and real estate law. She filled many positions that have given her professional experience and knowledge in the field of planning, construction and real estate. The many positions assumed by Adv. Biran in both the public and private sectors has earned her extensive experience in case management and planning procedures. Adv. Biran has a broad, thorough, and extensive understanding of the real estate world and its legal, economic and planning aspects, all are reflected in the work of her firm.

 Adv. Biran currently resides as the Co-Chairperson of the Planning and Zoning Committee as well as the Bar’s representative to the Advisory Committee for the Registrar of Realtors.

After qualifying in 1988, Adv. Biran served as external legal counsel for the Hod Ha’Sharon Municipality and the “Hadarim” Local Planning and Construction Committee in 1988-1995; as Legal Counsel on behalf of the Minister of the Interior regarding acoustic protection under the National Outline Plan 2/4; as a Planning Investigator on behalf of the Ministry of the Interior; as a Professional Liaison on behalf of the Israel Bar Association regarding TAMA 38, at its Steering Committee.

In 1996, Adv. Biran was the first to be appointed Chair of the Tel Aviv District’s Planning and Construction Appeals Committee. In this role, she served 7 years, during which time, she crafted and formulated the nature of the Appeals Committee and its work procedures and wrote thousands of professional decisions.

In 2003 she joined Yegnes, Toister, Biran & Co., as Senior Partner, and left to establish her own firm 6 years later.

Adv. Biran frequently lectures at courses and professional training seminars held by the Israel Bar Association, the Israel Appraisers Association, the Institute for Training Judges, Lahav, Reichman University, Herzliya, The Israel Construction Center, and at different governmental and commercial institutions.