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Yehuda Raveh & Co

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Yehuda Raveh & Co

Project finance is Yehuda Raveh & Co's speciality but competitors are divided on whether the firm remains a tier one contender, stating that there are others who can offer more experienced advice. Yet the firm's doubters are inconsistent and admit that the firm has an established lawyer in its name partner Yehuda Raveh: "He is a name you can't argue with that," observes one.... [more]

Leading lawyers
Yehuda Glatt
Yehuda Raveh



Jerusalem:
26 Usishkin St, P.O. Box 7722
Tel: +972-2-563-5232
Fax: +972-2-561-1701

Tel-Aviv:
Rubinstein House, 20 Lincoln St.
Tel: +972-3-5620303
Fax: +972-3-5618558
Web: www.yraveh.co.il

Number of Partners: 10
Total Number of lawyers: 66

Contacts:
Yehuda Raveh, Senior Partner: lawfirm@yraveh.co.il
Ezra Baris, Partner: ezra@ravehtlv.co.il

Firm profile and areas of practice:

Yehuda Raveh and Co. was established in the 1940s by the late Gideon Hausner, the Attorney General of the State of Israel and a Cabinet Minister in Israel's Government. Today, the firm is among the leading law firms in Israel. It is led by Mr. Yehuda Raveh and has a staff of 85 lawyers, associates, and administrative personnel.
The firm is also involved in projects in Europe and has recently opened a branch in Bucharest, Hungary.
The firm has been repeatedly ranked among the leading law firms in Israel by various international publications, namely The European Legal 500, Dun & Bradstreet, Chambers Global, International Association of Business Leaders and IFLR1000.
The firm provides legal services in a broad range of areas, including among others: major infrastructure projects, project finance and BOT projects, corporate and M&A, multi-national cross-border transactions, real esate, construction and development, bankruptcy and reorganization, hotel and tourims, public tenders, administrative law and litigation and dispute resolution.
The firm represents several of the largest real estate and construction projects in the country in major residential, commercial, high-tech and industrial projects. The firm has well-known expertise in hotel development and management deals throughout Israel, and represents numerous hotel owners and developers and major national and international hotel companies.

The firm is one of Israel's leading firms in the area of infrastructure and project finance. The firm has unrivalled experience working across a wide range of infrastructure projects, inlcluding infrastructure projects in the areas of Transportation, Construction, Real Estate Development, Water Desalination, Power Plants and others.
The firm is heavily involved in the Cross Israel Highway Project, the largest Transportation Infrastructure Project in Israel, which was built and financed on a B.O.T. basis.
Yehuda Raveh and Co. is one of the leading corporate and M&A law firms in Israel. The firm has been involved in many significant and complex cross-border transactions, of all sizes and ownership structures.
The firm was recently involved in the acquisition of the control of Azorim, a public company valued at $500 million, which is one of the largest development companies in Israel.
The Firm also represents the Israel Infrastructure Fund (IIF), the first Israeli private equity fund specializing in infrastructure related projects and companies. Recently the Firm represented IIF in the acquisition of 75% of the shares in Netivey Hayovel Ltd., the Concessionaire of the PFI Road 431 Project; and in the acquisition of 27.5% of CityPass Ltd., the Concessionaire of the Jerusalem Light Rail Project.