About

Farbman, Reshef & Co. Law Firm is one of Israel's leading and most esteemed firms in the real estate and urban renewal fields. The firm provides legal services in the fields of real estate, planning and zoning (P&Z), real estate taxation, corporate law, support and promotion of planning proceedings, registration and civil litigation, as well as notary and civil arbitration services.

The firm, which was founded in 2001, meticulously delivers personal, professional and comprehensive services to its clients, based on its core values of professionalism, reliability, fairness and creativity. The firm represents a wide array of clients, including rights owners, purchasing groups, as well as private and public real-estate companies, that have been working in the field for many years and serve as an important pillar in the development of real estate in Israel.

Over Two Decades of Proven Success, Professionalism, and Creativity

Farbman Reshef is one Israel's leading firms regarding the wide scope of successfully completed projects, with legal guidance for over 115 projects, in which new apartments were delivered to thousands of apartment owners and hundreds of real estate transactions completed, positioning it as a prominent urban renewal real estate. The firm is involved in real estate transactions, projects and evacuation-construction complexes throughout Israel, including Tel Aviv, Haifa,Migdal HaEmek, Hod Hasharon, Herzliya, Ra’anana, Ramat Gan, Givatayim, Kiryat Yam, Hadera, Netanya, Kfar Saba, Givat Shmuel, Petah Tikva, Rishon LeZion, Rehovot, Be’er Sheva, and more.

Areas of Expertise

Land and Real Estate Law and Arbitration Services

The firm provides legal services in its main field of expertise, that stems from a broad economic and legal perspective, synergistically with its additional practices areas, including real-estate taxation, P&Z, urban renewal and litigation, in order to provide the best service and results. The firm specializes in all real-estate-related matters, including legal support for initiators and constructors, from negotiations to registration, urban renewal, combination transactions, purchasing groups, sale and purchase, yielding properties, counsel for individuals and groups and due diligence. The firm's vast real-estate experience enables it to counsel and arbitrate at all transaction stages, including right purchasing, negotiations, contracting with various entities, financing agreements and formalization and solutions for complex registrations.

Urban Renewal

As Israel's leader of the urban renewal field, the firm counsels and supports individuals and initiators in all types of urban renewal, including Pinui-Binui ,Ibui-Binui and Binui-Pinui, complementary land, rights mobilization, and Tama 38 (reinforcement/demolition and reconstruction), from the initial concept formulation stage and up to the completion of the project through the delivery of the new apartments to their owners. We are proud to be one of the few firms in Israel that completed urban renewal projects (over 80 projects) and reached the delivery stage. The expertise and experience accumulated by the firm during the completion of the projects, turned our firm into a leading firm on a national scale in this field.

Real-Estate Taxation

The firm maintains vast expertise and a strategic perspective regaridng all aspects of real-estate tax (purchasing, betterment, VAT) in diverse real-estate transactions, including sale and purchase of real-estate assets, purchasing groups, urban renewal transactions (including Tama 38 and Pinui-Binui), combination transactions, rights mobilization and land cooperatives transactions. The firm works in full coordination with different government agencies to execute the transactions in the most accurate and economic way for its clients. The firm’s activity includes pre-execution planning, in addition to all required aspects, including pre-rulings, reporting, agreement drafting, legal opinions, self-assessments, and representation in various proceedings before the tax authorities including in objections and appeals proceedings.

Planning and Zoning

As an integral aspect part of the firm’s ongoing operations, this practice area requires an in-depth understanding which directly affects the characteristics of the forming real-estate transaction. The firm regularly accompanies owners and developers regarding the promotion of plans, objections and appeals, and also accompanies projects that include architectural conservation structures, expropriations and zoning changes and provides legal counsel and comprehensive and professional support vis-à-vis local and district P&Z commissions, appeal commissions, administrative courts, district courts and the Supreme Court.

The Executive Team

Adv. and Notary Guy Farbman, Founding Owner

Adv. Farbman is a renowned expert in the field of real estate. Farbman was chosen as one of the 30 leading attorneys in Israel according to the website “Bar Samha” and one of the 70 most influential lawyers in the field of real estate and urban renewal.

Adv. Farbman maintains extensive experience regarding civil-commercial law, including corporate, P&Z, real-estate taxation, accompanying purchasing groups, combination transactions, and planning and executing complex real estate transactions. Adv. Farbman appears before various legal tribunals, serves as Chairperson of The Property and Land Committee at the Bar Association and as an arbitrator on behalf of the Bar. Adv.

Adv. and Notary Efrat Reshef, Owner

Adv. Reshef is one of Israel’s leading real-estate attorneys in the facilitation of all aspects of Pinui-Binui and Tama 38 projects. She was selected as one of Israel’s Top 70 real estate and urban renewal influencers. She was accredited as a lawyer in Israel in 2003.

Adv. Reshef maintains vast experience regarding planning and executing complex real-estate transactions, including combination transactions, complementary lands, public tenders, counsel, promotion and support for complex re-parcellation plans, counseling, accompanying and promoting rezoning plans and complex re-parcellation plans.

She is a member of the Israel Bar Association’s Title and Urban Renewal committees, lectures in various real-estate forums.

Adv. Chen Cohen – Partner

Adv. Cohen maintains extensive experience regarding the representation of leading real estate companies, as well as entrepreneurs, contractors, and rights owners in the field of real estate and urban renewal. Adv. Cohen was chosen as one of the 40 most promising lawyers in the field of real estate and urban renewal.

Adv. Cohen specializes in planning and executing complex real estate deals, that include thousands of existing housing units in projects of Pinui Binui, Binui Pinui, transfer of rights, and TAMA 38 on its various types, including mixed-use complexes for commerce, offices, and residential. Adv. Cohen accompanies regularly large-scale financing transactions opposite banks, insurance companies, funds and different financial institutions.