Tax

EBN’s Tax department provides clients with a comprehensive offering of cutting-edge and innovative tax advice, ensuring that clients meet their commercial objectives and requirements with regard to the demands of Israeli and international law.
Clients are immediately advantaged by the creativity and professionalism showcased by our lawyers, who thrive under the guidance and leadership of Eran Lempert. Specializing in analyzing and planning transactions, we strive to optimize the tax outcomes for our clients and help them to advance their business interests.

In particular, with vast experience in representing domestic and multinationals, we advise on international taxation and the application of treaties for the prevention of double taxation, corporate taxation, real estate taxation, VAT and other indirect taxes, mergers and acquisitions, transfer pricing, formation of venture capital and other investment funds, employee stock options plans, individual taxation, tax issues relating to residency, taxation of trusts, intergenerational transfers, as well as representing clients before tax authorities and in litigation proceedings, if necessary, with a strong track record of either winning in the proceeding or reaching a beneficial settlement.

Our Tax experts are in complete synergy with the other departments of the firm, and clients benefit from the cooperation with our other prolific and skilled experts, reassuring them that all of their corporate and tax needs are met under one roof, and with the uncompromising professionalism for which the firm is renowned.

We are engaged in many high-profile and complex matters – most of which are confidential – but include representing clients:

• Before the Tax Authority in tax audit procedures.
• In tax litigation proceedings before various tribunals and preliminary appeal proceedings before the various departments of the Israel Tax Authority
• In providing well-founded and detailed tax opinions on all tax-related matters
• In the tax aspects of M&A transactions, including performing due diligence process with respect to the tax aspects of the target company, shareholder taxation, employee stock option plans, tax withholding, and tax optimization of post-transaction business activities.
• In aspects of real estate taxation, drawing on the unique collaboration between the firm’s preeminent Real Estate department, including tax planning to ensure optimal tax results of real estate transactions, drafting tax clauses in transactions’ agreements, providing written legal opinions, obtaining preliminary tax decisions, submitting the required statements to the Tax Authority, as well as any relevant negotiations or appeal and litigation proceedings, and more.
• In the formation of Venture Capital and other Investment Funds, analyzing the optimal structure for the fund, including issues of international taxation, tax status of foreign investors, drafting tax clauses in the funds’ legal documents, applying to the Tax Authority for preliminary tax decisions regarding the funds’ activity, and more.
• In the tax aspects of estate planning, management of family wealth and assets, and intergenerational transfers of private and business assets, and making family arrangements, including establishing and managing trusts that will suit the unique needs of each client.