New: A Legal Laboratory for Planning and Construction

We are pleased to announce our firm’s new venture: the “Legal Laboratory for Planning and Construction,” located at82 Menachem Begin Road, Tel Aviv (second floor), led by attorney and architect Lior Datz and Adv. Uri Shiloh.
As its name suggests, the Laboratory is a research, analysis and advisory center for planning and building issues. It offers a creative, uncompromising and usually surprising approach to help lawyers outside this specialty, developers, architects and property owners decipher legal and planning aspects of plans, formulate strategies to obtain maximum planning rights, chart a course and resolve substantive problems throughout planning, construction, objections, challenges, appeals, planning-related harm and similar processes.
The Laboratory will hold free periodic professional meetings on issues specific to our expertise, hosting specialists in related fields such as real-estate taxation, levies and municipal property tax.
Its experts provide companies requiring advanced valuations with professional opinions on planning and legal risks and economic valuations of projects before or during planning.
Attorney and architect Lior Datz holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from the Technion, bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law, and is currently pursuing his doctorate in law. He served on the National Planning and Building Council, advised leading Israeli developers, and is known for his deep understanding of plan analysis and extensive planning and regulatory experience.
Adv. Uri Shiloh graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law, served as legal adviser to local planning committees for twelve years and has advised planning and construction projects since 1985.