GKH offers top-tier legal representation in domestic and international real estate transactions, development projects and, disputes. Our Real Estate Practice serves clients in inbound and outbound transactions involving development, acquisition, financing, leasing, zoning, environmental issues and real estate tax planning. We serve {Israeli clients}{. with ongoing legal advice and services in connection with large-scale residential and commercial projects throughout the country. We represent developers and investors in a wide range of commercial, residential, hotel and infrastructure projects in Israel. Our clients include luxury residential developers, hotel operators, retail and office tower developers, international hotel and retail chains, and financial institutions. Our Real Estate Practice is also active in representing Israeli companies in real estate development and investment in the United States, Europe, Russia and the Far East. Our international real estate lawyers manage these transactions directly with local counsel and assist our clients in understanding the issues presented by each transaction and provide guidance on real estate, corporate and tax issues and implications}.

Our real estate practice also advises and multi-national contractors in local construction and development projects and guide them through public tenders for national infrastructure projects. We also have unique expertise in counseling international real estate developers, investors and financial institutions in connection with their activities in Israel. Our real estate department includes attorneys that have practiced commercial real estate in the United States and who have the ability to familiarize our international clients with the business and legal considerations that arise in real estate transactions in Israel. In managing these transactions, we provide a complete legal review of prospective properties that meet our international clients' underwriting requirements.

Our Real Estate Practice is unique in that it is expert in both sides of real estate law – the initial transactions {and the litigation that sometimes follows}{. Our attorneys offer broad experience in successfully representing clients in and out of court in disputes that may include dissolution of joint ownership of property, arbitration, land rights and appearances before government organizations. Our wide-range of expertise provides us with a broader perspective and our clients with better, more comprehensive service.