Ben Ari Fish, Law Firm, is among the leading firms in Israel in the area of Municipal authorities, and has been ranked over many years in the elite group (Tier 1) of law firms in Israel in the Dun’s 100 and BDi professional rankings.

The team that specializes in Municipal authorities law at Ben Ari Fish, Law Firm, provides legal representation and accompaniment in each of the interfaces between the Municipal authority and the citizen, the State, other public entities, and the various organs within the Municipal authority.

Such legal services include drafting contracts and agreements – including drafting agreements and public engagement documents for Municipal authorities, among them lease, sale, rent, contractor, infrastructure development, planning, appraisal, consulting, goods procurement and other agreements. The team’s unique advantage in this regard is in its ability to address attendant aspects such as taxation and appraisal while providing ongoing accompaniment.

Legal counselling to the Municipal authority’s tender committees and drafting tender documents based on various financing methods – the attorneys in the Municipal authorities team have extensive experience accompanying tenders of Municipal authorities, including conducting hundreds of tenders in various fields, using different financing methods, among them BOT tenders, and providing ongoing legal counselling to the Municipal authority’s tender committees, often preventing the need for litigation in court post factum.

The team specializing in Municipal authorities has unique expertise in municipal corporations and in water and sewage corporations. This includes rich experience assisting and accompanying the incorporation of these corporations, as well as providing them with ongoing legal counselling thereafter, particularly the incorporation of, and ongoing legal counselling to, water and sewage corporations, handling the affiliation of Municipal authorities with existing water and sewage corporations, and implementing establishment fee principles.

The team has also acquired unique experience in administrative ordinances of the Municipal authority and regulatory entities (Ministry of Interior, the Water and Sewage Authority, the State Comptroller’s Office, etc.). This expertise includes legal counselling regarding procedure proceedings, municipal institutions and mechanisms; management, definition and oversight of elected official’s powers and rights, collaboration with government offices and more.

Additionally, the team also provides legal counselling in all matters relating to the Municipal authority’s accessibility obligation, including legal counselling and representation regarding accessibility to the Municipal authority’s buildings and facilities in accordance with the requirements of the law.

Owing to the vast experience gained over the years, the team in our firm has played, and continues to play, an active role in formulating delegated legislation relevant to the activity of Municipal authorities. This includes formulating and drafting municipal bylaws, handling their approval and publishing with the relevant entities in the Municipal authority, among them the persons responsible for calculating mandatory payment rates, the Municipal authority’s institutions, and approving entities on behalf of the State, including formulating and drafting municipal tax orders and various bylaws.

It should be noted that alongside representation of municipal entities (Municipal authorities, planning and building committees, economic companies, water and sewage corporations, etc.), the expert team, headed by Adv. Avi Gabai and Adv. Erez Milner, also provides legal counselling and representation services to clients from the private and public sectors.