A Major Player in Israel’s Legal Community

The founder and senior partner of Yuval Levy & Co., Prof. Yuval Levy, is recognized as one of Israel’s foremost litigators as well as a skilled and sought after corporate attorney. With a long and illustrious career spanning over fifty years (42 of which he served on the law faculty at the prestigious University of Tel Aviv), Yuval’s experience forms the foundations upon which the firm operates today.

Throughout the years, leading attorneys from the top echelon of the Israeli legal community joined Yuval Levy as partners of the firm. Managing partner Opher Levy and head of litigation partner, Yechiel Kasher each have over twenty years’ experience, and have built independent reputations in the field of corporate and commercial law, and litigation, respectively.

The firm and its partners are consistently honored by local and international publications. The “Legal 500 Series,” a definitive guide to the legal market in over 70 countries, has consecutively ranked the firm over the years, citing it in five major categories in its 2006 edition. Particularly, Yuval Levy and Yechiel Kasher, the head of the litigation department, are recognized as experts in the category of litigation and arbitration, Opher Levy in the categories of competition and banking/finance law, and Tamar Krongrad in the category of corporate and commercial law. The UK’s Chambers and Partners strongly recommends the firm for its dispute resolution practice, noting client appreciation of the firm’s track record of success in “some of the most difficult cases in Israel.” Two of our litigation partners have been cited by name, as being in the leading echelon of litigators in Israel. Practical Law Company (PLC), the UK’s pre-eminent provider of legal know-how, transactional analysis and market intelligence for business lawyers, has listed Yuval Levy & Co. as the leading firm in the environmental law field, citing Idit Reiter, head of the environmental law practice, as a national expert. On the local Israeli level, Dunn & Bradstreet recognizes the partners of the firm by including them, on an annual basis, in a list of Israel’s Top One Hundred Executives, while the media (both print and audio) interviews partners of the firm on a regular basis, seeking their opinion on legal issues arising from current news.

The firm today is active and renowned in dispute resolution, corporate and finance, banking and credit cards, antitrust, technology and intellectual property, environmental law, real estate and bankruptcy and liquidation. Representing a myriad of corporate entities, governmental authorities and banking institutions, the firm has a list of successes in trailblazing litigations, as well as an impressive array of transactional work. It provides its services to companies of all sizes and positions, from start-ups to multi-national and global corporations.

With its experience of over thirty years, the firm has acted for countless foreign clients in all areas of its practice. The firm’s comprehensive international and local experience allows it to serve as a two-way gateway for its clients: taking its Israeli clients worldwide, whilst closely supporting its foreign clients in Israel. Yuval Levy & Co. maintains close ties with law offices worldwide, enabling members of the firm to provide quick and personal response to clients’ international concerns.

The firm is proud of its unique cooperation with the leading Chinese law firm Guangda, which is headquartered in Guangzhou  and has branches in Beijing, Shanghai  and Shenzhen, China. The two law firms have joined together in their desire to provide their international clients a wide range of high-quality legal services in China. Through this collaboration, the firm's clients will enjoy the services of a joint Chinese-Israeli team with vast experience in all legal aspects of establishing and operating foreign investment enterprises in China, including establishing representative offices, Sino-foreign joint ventures and wholly owned foreign enterprises, intellectual property, labor law, finance and banking, real estate, bankruptcy and liquidation, taxation and litigation. In addition, the recognition of Yuval Levy & Co. as the leading law firm in Israel in the field of environmental law will allow the firms to facilitate the penetration of Israeli and other foreign environmental technologies companies into the fast growing Chinese market.

The firm has been the sole Israeli representative in Legal Network International for over 15 years, and maintains active participation in LexUniversal, a global virtual law provider. The professional staff have attended the finest educational institutions, both in Israel and overseas, some are members of law chambers in US jurisdictions, and all are able to work fluently in both Hebrew and English, allowing the firm to serve the needs of its overseas clients in a professional manner.