E. Shiloh & Co. Attorneys at Law
The firm in detail
E. Shiloh & Co. Attorneys at Law is a respected Israeli boutique firm specialising in planning and construction, property and real estate law, contracts, commercial law, business corporations and cooperative associations, inheritance law and related legal services. Founded in Haifa in 1955 by the late Eliyahu Shiloh, the firm now has offices in Haifa and Tel Aviv and a family-mediation office in Hod Hasharon.
Since its foundation, the firm’s vision has been to provide creative legal solutions to our clients, both in their personal life and in their commercial activities, with an emphasis on professionalism and uncompromising honesty.
Our practice
For years, the firm has been engaged in providing various legal services in a variety of land law, planning and construction, real estate and commercial matters, including complex real estate transactions, sales contracts, combination deals, urban renewal contracts, advanced construction and renewable energy technologies, farmers family agreements, and land tenure management.
The firm’s experts advise to real estate projects promoters, companies and public authorities on planning and construction matters, from vision to building including issues of outline plans and urban renewal plans, and provide full professional assistance coverage of all planning procedures, thus representing our client in the planning institutions, including objections, appeals and administrative litigation.
The real estate activity includes also other various topics such as: real estate taxation, Improvement duties, development duties, property and real estate registration.
Alongside classic planning and construction matters, the firm handles cases in the areas of litigation, commercial & economy, family law and in a variety of related domains and primarily in representing real estate disputes, neighboring disputes, family disputes, inheritance disputes, competition lawsuits, electoral laws, company law, labor law and general legal matters, transfer of family assets, wills and inheritances.
The litigation team represents clients in civil and administrative disputes in all matters related to our areas of expertise, including land co-ownership disputes, urban and rural boundary claims, construction deficiencies, contract disputes, commercial claims, discrimination claims, impairment and planning impairment.
The commercial & economy team specializes in establishing new corporations, consulting for all kinds of corporations (companies, cooperative societies and not for profit organizations), real estate investment transactions, valuation, consulting directors in the implications of the “Business Discretion Test”, implement “Business Intelligence” systems as a legal and control tool while implementing privacy standards. This team also consults in winding-up matters of corporations and family property.
Our approach
We do our best to provide our clients with effective legal services, and thus each case is managed by a partner with extensive experience in the relevant field.
Our Clients
Over the years, we have been consulting to private property owners, companies, cooperative associations, general associations, entrepreneurs, contractors, business people, both domestic and international, insurance companies, technology and medical device companies, local authorities, planning and construction committees and more.
A.D.R
We believe that a professional, fair, and economically viable dispute resolution must be treated differently. This was the reason for us to set up an independent mediation unit in our office that includes a number of mediators. The team members specialize in alternative dispute resolution in a variety of legal, commercial, and family and couples disputes matters.
Founders
Eliyahu Shiloh, of blessed memory
Lawyer and notary (1928–2017)
Born in Chemnitz, Germany, in 1928, he immigrated to Israel with his family following harassment by the SA.
In Israel, he attended the Bosmat vocational school, played basketball at an almost professional level for Maccabi Haifa, and coached its girls’ basketball team.
After completing his military service, he studied law at the Higher School of Law and Economics, an affiliate of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He also trained in bookkeeping and worked in insurance at the Leumit insurance agency.
He began practising independently in 1955, specialising in commercial, property, real estate and tax law, and represented clients in thousands of cases. Many lawyers completed their professional training under his guidance.
For many years, he served voluntarily as chief disciplinary prosecutor for the Haifa District of the Israel Bar Association.
He served as a prosecutor for local planning and construction committees by appointment of the Attorney General.
He chaired a committee on the admissibility of books of account under the Income Tax Ordinance.
In 2005, the Israel Bar Association awarded him its distinguished professional award for his exceptional contribution to the standing of lawyers and professional ethics.
In 2014, he received the distinguished professional award from the Haifa District of the Israel Bar Association.
In June 2017, the firm held the real estate conference “Florentin or Berlin” in his honour, attended by professionals from Israel and abroad, friends and family.
The film produced for the conference was filmed and produced by Aviv Shiloh, SPRING Productions.
He passed away in 2017 at the age of 89. May his memory be a blessing.
Zehava Shiloh, of blessed memory
Lawyer and notary (1929–2020)
A practising lawyer from 1960 to 2020, she immigrated from Poland in 1932, served in the Haganah, edited the newspaper “Haifa Ovedet”, and completed teacher training and law studies. She specialised in real estate, inheritance, family and personal status law and had extensive experience in resolving disputes and negotiating reconciliation agreements between spouses.
She passed away in 2020 at the age of 91. May her memory be a blessing.
We volunteer
True to the spirit and vision since the foundation of E. Shiloh & Co., our team members volunteer for public matters, both in the Bar and in other institutions and organizations, donating their time and experience even without consideration in order to promote human rights and the welfare of our country residents.
Collaborations
The firm collaborates with law firms abroad. Since 2011, it has served as the Haifa branch of Dr. M. Druker & Co., founded in 1964 by lawyer and accountant Dr. Moshe Druker and specialising in tax, commercial and real estate law. Dr. M. Druker & Co. is one of Israel’s leading tax law firms and is recognised by the business and legal communities and the tax authorities as a specialist boutique firm. It offers professional and creative solutions to a broad range of civil and criminal tax matters, seeking the best tax outcomes while maintaining the responsible and careful approach required in tax law. Its areas of expertise include income tax, international taxation, VAT, real estate and municipal taxation, high-tech taxation, taxation of nonprofit organisations and public institutions, tax offences and money laundering, as well as commercial and real estate law. Dr. M. Druker & Co.