The department spans the real estate world – complex and broad-ranging transactions in Israel and overseas
Berkman Wechsler Bloom & Co.’s real estate team, headed by managing partner Adv. Ari Wechsler, counsels the firm’s clients in complex and extensive transactions in all types of real estate business in Israel and around the world: income-producing real estate transactions, acquisitions, tenders, residential land and construction (including luxury housing), commercial real estate (including shopping malls), combination and partnership transactions, licensing, construction and infrastructure, complete handling in all matters pertaining to real estate investment corporations, etc.
The firm represents leading construction companies and investors, developers, commercial companies, and owners of private capital in all types of real estate transactions and project management. The department provides counsel in all matters pertaining to the legal and tax structuring of these transactions and projects, including financing and credit, planning and building, investment management, development plans, environmental aspects, etc.
The real estate team also specializes in providing a broad range of special legal services for groups of investors and developers involved in jointly owned and managed complex construction projects in Israel and overseas, while creating a ramified network of professional cooperation with lawyers in the target countries.
The real estate team is composed of leading lawyers experienced in legal practice in general, and in real estate in particular, who combine their professional expertise with broad practical, business, and economic experience.
The combination of full counsel for the client in his deliberations and business decisions during the entire life span of the transaction, including planning the acquisition, the acquisition itself, betterment and construction, and the exit (marketing or sale), with full legal representation until the exit and registration stage provides the firm's clients with the most comprehensive services and counsel, and time and again ensures the best results.
The service provided to the firm’s clients by the real estate team features professionalism, loyalty to the client, quickness, and efficiency - with the most suitable team members being assigned to each project.

Real estate litigation and tenders management – a specialty in its own right
Together with its specialty in handling and conducting real estate transactions, the real estate team also specializes in providing litigation services in all matters relating to a variety of real estate sectors, including contract and ownership disputes, matters pertaining to planning and building law, tender, and even family and business disputes involving ownership issues and distribution of assets.
Our unique philosophy holds that the ability to cope and the experience acquired by the team members in handling disputes (concerning real estate transactions) being litigated in the courts and in various tribunals sharpens and improves our ability to mold and plan the defense of our client's interests in a more proper, accurate, and up-to-date fashion in the next transaction that we conduct for them; while our extensive experience in accompanying and carrying out real estate transactions provides us with a uniqe added value in the conducting of legal proceedings with regard to such transactions. The real estate team has particular expertise in all the areas mentioned above, including vast experience in representing clients and appearing in their name, not only in court (including the Supreme Court), but also before public authorities, local and district planning committees, appeals committees, etc.

The real estate team members also have extensive experience in conducting tenders for our clients, including drawing up the tender, publicizing it, conducting it and choosing the winning bids, and through its implementation.

International transactions
Another specialty in which the team members have accumulated extensive and global experience is counsel and advice for Israeli developers operating in foreign markets in residential and commercial construction.
Counsel and advice are given in full cooperation with local lawyers in the target and investment countries. In this way, the firm's clients benefit from both working with a legal consultant who is highly involved, and well-versed in the full array of their business considerations, as well as from comprehensive and professional advice in all legal and business aspects in the target countries. Among other things, the team members have accumulated great experience in transactions conducted in the US and Canada, European and Eastern European countries, and Latin American countries.

In good company – the real estate team’s clientele
The firm's real estate clientele includes many of the leading groups in Israel in development and construction, including construction companies, investors, developers, etc. The firm’s clientele includes, Shikun Ovdim, Electra Real Estate, the Olympia group, the Canada-Israel group, the Canit group (Azrieli), the SGS group, and many others.