Bio

Advocate Avi Ben-Yaacov is a senior partner and head of the Real Estate, Planning and Construction Department at Weksler Bregman & Co. For many years, the firm’s real estate department has consistently been ranked as leading practitioners in both Israeli and international rating publications and Avi has personally been ranked as a “leading lawyer” in his field. For example, Avi is ranked as a “Leading Individual” in the prestigious international ranking company Chambers and Partners Avi’s success stems from his ability to consult and guide in complex transactions on all issues and at all levels of the real estate industry, and to do so from every perspective. Thus, Avi represents promoters involved in real estate development as well as the owners of the land with whom the promoters are contracting; companies who own income-yielding properties and corporations who rent the income-yielding properties from promoters; entrepreneurs taking out credit to finance their operations and banks which provide the credit; companies engaged in the field of urban renewal, tenants in urban renewal complexes and banks which finance urban renewal transactions. Avi provides comprehensive legal guidance to real estate promoters for the entire span of a project, whilst ensuring that all aspects of his support relate and respond to his client’s needs and its organizational culture – starting from the stage of acquiring the land, its development and change of purpose, through the procedures required to obtain approval for a new urban building plan, project financing, building construction, the sale or operation of the buildings, and concluding with registration of the properties.