The Doron, Tikotzky, Kantor, Gutman and Amit Gross Law Firm is one of Israel’s leading law firms, with over 90 lawyers and legal professionals, accountants, economists and former government and tax authority's employees, and with 15 partners working in a cohesive way together. The Firm is renowned for its tax, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, real-estate, high-tech and litigation practice. The Firm, originally founded in 1997, quickly established itself as one of Israel’s leading firms in the field of taxation, and then branched out to other sectors in which it excels. Today, the Firm has two branches in Israel (in Bnei Berak-Ramat-Gan, and in Haifa) and significant activities in the international arena. The Firm ensures an optimal and unique solution
for its clients, with an emphasis on uncompromising professionalism, and a focus on customer interest and the realization of its objectives.
Firm Vision and Values
The Firm believes in a commitment to provide service of the highest caliber to its clients around the clock, to give a legal, business minded response that combines excellence, expertise, availability and compliance with goals while crafting solutions with exceptional creativity and originality. The metaphor that matches the Firm’s vision is that of a “Delta force team” which most clearly characterizes the dynamics, decisiveness, and speed of focusing on client interests, which the Firm is known for.
Activities Across the Globe
The Firm has extensive international operations spanning four continents, working closely with the New York law firm of SRFK, with its 60 lawyers, and through branch offices in Romania and Cyprus as well as desks designed to provide service for French, Russian, Chinese, German and Arabic speakers.
New York: The Firm maintains a unique affiliation with SRFK, which is a New York based law firm and has over 60 lawyers and legal professionals. SRFK provides counselling in the capital market, corporate law, civil litigation and arbitration sectors. Its expertise includes supporting commercial transactions and entities, supporting companies up to the IPO stage and after, representation before regulatory bodies and the treatment of public companies in the field of US securities.
Romania: This branch specializes in the real estate law as well as commercial law, and serves many Israeli entrepreneurs working in Romania in different fields, including litigation and real estate transactions, and obtaining a Romanian passport for Israelis entitled to it. Cyprus: This branch is located in Nicosia, provides legal and business services to clients with international operations, starting with forming companies, including trust services; management of the Board of Directors.
Areas of Expertise
The Firm is engaged in a variety of legal sectors, the most prominent of which are:
Taxation – specializing in taxation advice and legal support, and rendering written legal opinions on matters of Israeli and international taxation. The Firm’s tax department includes a team that represents clients in criminal tax cases and white collar crimes (money laundering, etc.); a team dealing tax litigation (handling income tax assessments, Value Added Tax, customs duty, purchase tax, real estate tax, etc.); and a third team involved in international taxation, including rendering written tax planning opinions for international tax planning, as well as voluntary disclosure procedures.
The tax department also provides its clients (Israeli and foreign residents) services concerning various regulatory requirements derived from money laundering and US FATCA implications.
Civil and Commercial Litigation – representation at various courts and complex arbitration proceedings in a variety of proceedings and claims, including business disputes, corporate recovery, liquidations, receiverships, bankruptcies and more.
Real Estate – the Firm has extensive expertise and an excellent reputation in real estate issues and taxation, with many years of experience in Israel and abroad, being involved in the development of income-yielding real estate transactions, large-scale residential construction issues, combination and commercial real estate transactions. With its unique expertise and rich experience, in particular, the Firm is involved in the urban renewal sector, dealing with gentrification projects both large and mid-sized, and TAMA 38 issues. Furthermore, the Firm also represents clients in international real estate transactions in the US, Europe, Africa and South America.
Hi-Tech – legal advice and guidance for entrepreneurs in establishing technology companies in Israel and abroad, and during their various stages of development. In hi-tech and biotech, the Firm represents companies and investors alike. The firm’s High Tech and M&As practice serves dozens of companies in various fields of technology, as well as Private Equity and Venture Capital funds. The Firm’s client list includes many Israeli and international start-ups, NASDAQ-listed technology companies, private equity funds and more.
Mergers and Acquisitions – are one of our firm’s core strengths. We have consistently represented either purchasers or targets in Israel’s M&A transactions. Our M&A transactions have included forward and reverse triangular mergers, stock acquisitions, asset purchases, leveraged buy-outs, divestitures, tender offers and other transactions involving a change of control. Our services include advice on structuring, negotiation of transaction documents, due diligence, preparation of disclosure documents, preparation of shareholder communications, governmental filings and various other matters required to consummate mergers and acquisitions.
Capital Markets – legal support for capital raising issues in the Israeli and international capital markets. Representation for issuers and underwriters in Israel (TASE), the US (NASDAQ and the NYSE), the UK (LSE) as well as other stock exchanges in Europe and the Far East. The Firm provides legal advice on, delisting publicly traded companies, corporate governance issues, dual reporting issues (TASE-listed and overseas companies), and the like.
Banking and Collections – the Firm an experienced team which handles legal collections, including the legal representation of banks and other financial institutions in the collection enforcement processes, and receiverships. Among major clients are Bank Leumi and the Arab-Israel Bank.
Labor Law – The department is representing hundreds of businesses, food chains, restaurants organizations and factories in the processes of recruiting and employing workers and the integration and assimilation of labor laws within the organizations. Thanks to our extensive knowledge and experience in the area of labor law and representing employers in the Labor Courts throughout Israel and in dealing with the authorities, we are able to ensure that the worker is employed within the company in strict accordance with all statutory and common law requirements, thereby significantly reducing the employer’s exposure to employee claims and administrative penalties (levies, fines, indictments or pecuniary sanctions), and to save our clients time, money and considerable mental anguish.
