Corporate and Business Law

Setting up a company in Israel, developing a subsidiary, partnering with an Israeli business or structuring an investment across several countries: every stage in the life of a business involves legal choices with long-term consequences. Abitbol & Associés advises entrepreneurs, executives and investors, from incorporation through to the transfer of the business.

Israeli company law has features that often surprise foreign investors: registration with the Registrar of Companies, documents in Hebrew, specific governance rules. Our lawyers explain them in your language and, together with our tax team, help you make the right decisions from the outset.

Setting up and structuring your company

• Choosing the right structure for your project: company, branch of a foreign company, partnership
• Drafting the articles of association and registration
• Setting up subsidiaries and establishing foreign companies in Israel
• Translation and notarial certification of company documents

Shareholders and governance

• Shareholders’ agreements
• Admission and exit of shareholders, transfers of shares
• General meetings, corporate resolutions and statutory registers
• Day-to-day legal support for directors and managers

Contracts and business relationships

• International commercial contracts: services, distribution, general terms and conditions, partnership
• Negotiating alongside our clients with their business partners
• Acquisitions, mergers and restructurings

Preventing and resolving disputes

When a business relationship deteriorates or shareholders disagree, the firm first seeks a negotiated or mediated solution. If proceedings become necessary, our lawyers represent clients before the competent courts: see our Civil & Commercial Litigation page.

Does your project involve digital assets (cryptocurrencies, tokens, platforms)? See our crypto-assets law practice.

For the day-to-day legal and administrative management of your company, see also our legal process outsourcing services.