Municipalities
Barnea Jaffa Lande’s Municipalities department is one of the most prominent in its field in Israel. The department’s team provides ongoing comprehensive legal support to a variety of municipal bodies, including municipalities, local and regional councils and municipal corporations, companies and associations. The department offers a unique combination of legal expertise and extensive practical experience in the unique challenges and needs of the municipal sector, including with regard to strategic planning. The team specializes in providing precisely customized legal solutions to each authority according to its specific needs and characteristics, while factoring in all relevant regulatory, economic and strategic aspects.
The department’s spheres of expertise include inter alia:
Planning and construction: comprehensive legal services to planning and building committees, including representation before the various authorities and statutory advice during planning processes and approval processes for outline plans and detailed plans; we also provide legal advice and representation to various authorities on issues such as betterment levies, land appreciation, property devaluation compensation claims, and nonconforming uses etc. before all planning institutions (district and national committees) and at all appellate levels.
Urban renewal: comprehensive legal services to urban renewal administrations, including legal support in the establishment of administrations in municipalities (such as Rishon LeZion and Sderot) and representation before planning committees and institutions and relevant government ministries (including the national planning committee, the Israel Land Authority, and the Ministry of Housing and Construction etc.); conducting negotiations with developers and residents; performing preliminary feasibility analyses of proprietary and planning aspects of various projects; and negotiating and drafting development agreements.
Tenders, contracts and projects: comprehensive legal services for diverse projects, including infrastructure projects and public land development projects, including drafting of agreements; legal services for local and international procurement tenders, construction and infrastructure tenders, communications tenders, tenders for professional advisors and complex technological tenders. Our services also include providing legal advice during submissions of bids to tenders and handling of all associated agreements. Our firm’s team also provides legal services to tender committees, including legal opinions and representation during all proceedings.
Land management: comprehensive legal services to municipalities relating to land management, including in relation to land allocation and expropriation proceedings, easement agreements, development and lease agreements, and rezoning etc.
Municipal regulations: comprehensive legal support to municipalities with regard to complex regulatory issues, including structural and procedural issues, such as with regard to establishing institutions, local election procedures, defining the powers of elected public officials and their activities, drafting bylaws and accompanying them until they are approved and enacted. The department’s team advises local authorities and represents them before all relevant courts and authorities.
Municipalities
Barnea Jaffa Lande’s Municipalities department is one of the most prominent in its field in Israel. The department’s team provides ongoing comprehensive legal support to a variety of municipal bodies, including municipalities, local and regional councils and municipal corporations, companies and associations. The department offers a unique combination of legal expertise and extensive practical experience in the unique challenges and needs of the municipal sector, including with regard to strategic planning. The team specializes in providing precisely customized legal solutions to each authority according to its specific needs and characteristics, while factoring in all relevant regulatory, economic and strategic aspects.
The department’s spheres of expertise include inter alia:
Planning and construction: comprehensive legal services to planning and building committees, including representation before the various authorities and statutory advice during planning processes and approval processes for outline plans and detailed plans; we also provide legal advice and representation to various authorities on issues such as betterment levies, land appreciation, property devaluation compensation claims, and nonconforming uses etc. before all planning institutions (district and national committees) and at all appellate levels.
Urban renewal: comprehensive legal services to urban renewal administrations, including legal support in the establishment of administrations in municipalities (such as Rishon LeZion and Sderot) and representation before planning committees and institutions and relevant government ministries (including the national planning committee, the Israel Land Authority, and the Ministry of Housing and Construction etc.); conducting negotiations with developers and residents; performing preliminary feasibility analyses of proprietary and planning aspects of various projects; and negotiating and drafting development agreements.
Tenders, contracts and projects: comprehensive legal services for diverse projects, including infrastructure projects and public land development projects, including drafting of agreements; legal services for local and international procurement tenders, construction and infrastructure tenders, communications tenders, tenders for professional advisors and complex technological tenders. Our services also include providing legal advice during submissions of bids to tenders and handling of all associated agreements. Our firm’s team also provides legal services to tender committees, including legal opinions and representation during all proceedings.
Land management: comprehensive legal services to municipalities relating to land management, including in relation to land allocation and expropriation proceedings, easement agreements, development and lease agreements, and rezoning etc.
Municipal regulations: comprehensive legal support to municipalities with regard to complex regulatory issues, including structural and procedural issues, such as with regard to establishing institutions, local election procedures, defining the powers of elected public officials and their activities, drafting bylaws and accompanying them until they are approved and enacted. The department’s team advises local authorities and represents them before all relevant courts and authorities.