AREAS OF PRACTICE
MERGERS &
ACQUISITIONS
We provide a full range of complex advisory services related to corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions. Our team performs the legal due diligence, identifying for you the opportunities and threats that underscore the transaction. We perform steadfast negotiations, relentlessly representing your best legal and business interests, and bring the transaction to closure in a timely manner and with optimal terms.
VENTURE CAPITAL & PRIVATE EQUITY
We provide a broad range of legal services for all stages of a venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) transaction. We perform the legal due diligence, design the most suitable structure for your transaction, draft all the required legal documents to articulate the commercial objectives of the transaction, and perform the legal negotiations until the successful closing of transactions.
CROSS-BORDER TRANSACTIONS
Belkind & Co. holds specific and broad expertise for cross-border transactions for Europe, the US, Russia Asia, and Africa, delivering a seamless transaction with optimal results. Whether for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, sale and distribution of goods and services, or licensing issues our team of experts will advise, negotiate, and prepare the required documentation such as agreements for confidentiality and non-disclosure, joint venture and consortium, international sale of goods, international services, partnering, distribution, and letters of intent.
COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
Belkind & Co. practices "hands-on-gloves-off" litigation, providing a full array of commercial litigation services for our clients. These services range from pre-ligation dispute resolution to domestic and cross-border arbitration, including ICC and UNCITRAL Arbitrations, as well as trials in all courts and tribunals. We cover both instigating and defending claims, including for breach of contract and shareholder disputes. With all cases our goal is always to reach a speedy and optimal resolution.
COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS
Belkind & Co. is a trusted advisor to private and public listed corporations and entrepreneurs, for complex commercial transactions such as joint ventures, investments, and partnerships, distribution, agency, and licensing agreements. We partner with you on optimizing the terms and relationship between shareholders and management, mode of subscription of capital, transfer of shares, minority protection, composition of the board and management, labor, executive compensation, and more.
EQUITY & DEBT
FINANCING
Belkind & Co. provides sophisticated structuring solutions for business entities seeking to raise capital. When structuring a transaction, we begin by thoroughly evaluating the investment under consideration and acquisition proposals with your business objectives in mind. We advise on structuring and presenting bids, negotiating and drafting financing agreements and documents, and offer guidance and throughout the full lifecycle of the transaction
REAL ESTATE
We provide services in all areas of real estate law for complex projects and transactions relating to residential, urban renewal ("Tama 38" and "Evacuation & Construction" projects), industrial, office, hotels, malls, commercial centers, buildings, land and others. We advise and execute on matters relating to the terms and conditions of sale, purchase, leasing, financing, debt restructuring, investment and ownership structures.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Belkind & Co. has a competent Intellectual Property Practice. We advise our clients in all copyright, trademark and patent matters, including ownership issues, infringement, and litigation. Our attorneys are skilled business advisers with the unique understanding of intellectual property issues and thus can offer our clients the full package servicing all of their legal needs.
HI-TECH &
BIO-TECH
We provide legal counseling to start-ups, investors, entrepreneurs, and capital venture funds. We cover day-to-day management and operations, due diligence inquiries, investment agreements, strategic partnership agreements, joint ventures, M&A's, employee stock ownership plans; as well as development, and manufacturing agreements - including licensing, OEM, distributorship, agency, VAR, and more. We represent hardware, software, telecoms, cellular, Internet, medical devices, bio-tech, and others. We also support governmental grants, e.g. Office of the Chief Scientist, and assist with transfer of technology, knowledge and IP.
JOINT
VENTURES
We will be your partners in securing a joint venture that best serves your goals to accelerate growth, whether by entering new markets, expanding the business or develop new products. We can advise and help execute activities and transaction documents including: articles of association, contractual or co-operation agreements, due diligence, funding, minority protections, shared services, shareholders’ agreements, and more.
LABOR LAW
We assist our clients in the creation and maintenance of equitable legal labor practices and infrastructures. We advise on and execute employment contracts for executives and employees, severance packages, non-disclosure agreements, non-competition agreements, director compensation agreements, and employee stock option plans and phantom share plans, in light of the complexity of Israeli labor law, as well as employment grievance and disputes.
HOTEL & HOSPITALITY
Our attorneys handle all facets of hospitality law and have worked on some of the highest-profile hotel chains and transactions in the industry. Our attorneys have represented leading hotel chains and have acquired a unique skill set in hotel leases, management agreements, franchise agreements, hotel development agreements, supply agreements and many more.
FAMILY WEALTH
We provide our clients with tailor-made legal services related to family wealth management, including planning and structuring transitions of family owned businesses from generation to generation, preparing agreements to govern the transition between generations, preparing specific agreements to define the rights and obligations of different family members, drafting wills and establishing trusts.