The Masasa & Co. Law Firm is a law office offering a wide range of legal services, specialising in civil, commercial and criminal law and through its various departments assuring customers efficient and comprehensive personal attention.
Our team of qualified and experienced lawyers is assisted by a competent administrative staff comprising legal clerks and auxiliary personnel.
The owner, founder and Head of Chambers is Adv. David Masasa.
Our Method
Every client is referred to the head of one of the departments, whose task it is to attend to him throughout the legal steps undertaken on his behalf and adapt the action taken to the customer's individual needs. The firm is also capable of handling urgent cases such as restraining orders, High Court petitions, urgent transactions and the like. The firm operates through professional departments specialising in the various legal fields.
The office represents both private and large or medium sized corporate clients in all legal matters, and works with corporations in all stages of their development starting from their formation, funding, conducting of negotiations, and drawing up of appropriate agreements.
The firm acts for clients in dealing with various authorities and obtaining necessary permits and licences, and cooperates with accountants' firms in order to meet customers' tax planning requirements. The Litigation Department handles claims lodged with all courts of law and legal tribunals.
International Operations
The office is involved in international activities, and cooperates with leading legal firms around the world.
Languages
Hebrew, English, Arabic, Russian
Each of the office's departments is managed by a lawyer who is an expert in the legal field dealt with.
Legal Areas Handled by the Office's Departments
Civil & Commercial Law, litigation, legal representation and appearances in court, legal tribunals, and mediation and arbitration proceedings, land law including property taxes and planning and development, agricultural sector, matters associated with legal and personal status, administrative and public law, local authorities, local authority rates, tax laws, insurance laws and torts, civil execution procedure, intellectual property, copyrights, voluntary associations and cooperative societies, corporations including mergers and the capital market, liquidations, corporate recovery, bankruptcies, estate laws, trusteeships and custody, labour laws, environmental protection laws, restrictive trade practices, all branches of criminal law including white collar crimes.
Land and Planning and Development Department
This department attends to clients starting from the planning stage, merging and parcellation, zoning changes, agreements with contractors and sub-contractors, combination transactions, tax planning and the sale of housing units. The department maintains constant contact with banks in connection with financial backup deals and guarantees, and deals with all planning matters, the submittal of programmes to Planning and Development Committees, appeals and objections as necessary, and the drawing up of contracts for the agricultural sector. The department also represents clients in compensation claims under Paragraph 197 of the Planning and Development and Law, and compulsory purchase orders.
Commercial-Civil Law Department
This department deals with all branches of civil law including the setting up of corporations, share allocation and financing. The department specialises in planning, carrying out, and following up transactions starting from the preliminary stage, deal structure counselling, carrying out appropriate checks, negotiations and contracts until the transaction is completed. The department accompanies, advises and represents private and public corporations, trading and industrial companies, as well as working with companies in difficulties including corporate recovery, liquidations and bankruptcies, and handles cooperative societies, voluntary associations and partnerships, restrictive trade practices, trusteeships, custody and environmental protection laws.
Taxation Department
This department advises on and handles all taxation matters including Income Tax, VAT, Property Taxes, capital investment encouragement laws and other forms of indirect taxation, as well as dealing with tax planning and offering consultancy services over transactions and contracts to the other departments of the firm.
Litigation Department
This department is engaged on representing the firm's clients at all courts of law including legal tribunals, arbitration and mediation processes.
Torts and Insurance Department
This department handles all areas of torts including medical and professional malpractice, industrial disease, insurance policies etc.
Labour Laws Department
This department provides legal consultation for individuals and corporations, representation at Employment Tribunals, drawing up of work contracts and consultancy in the field of individual and collective labour laws, employees' rights, safeguarding of commercial secrets etc.
Intellectual Property, Patents, Hi-Tech, and Internet
This department represents clients engaged in the Hi-Tech and Internet fields, including Start-up companies. The department specialises in Intellectual Property, registration and protection of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and the protection of trade secrets.
Personal Status Department
This department attends to the needs of couples prior to marriage, i.e. drawing up of prenuptial financial agreements and consultancy for property owners. The department represents spouses in divorce proceedings at legal tribunals and courts, including reconciliation claims, custody, visitation arrangements, adoption, deed poll and age declarations, division of property and divorce settlements. Also handled are claims under the Hague Convention (return of abducted children), wills and execution of estates.
