The Firm

Lior & Co., Advocates was established in 1989 and has since built a wealth of experience and a distinguished reputation.

Our expertise lies in delivering creative and pragmatic solutions to complex and sensitive situations, crises, and conflicts across a wide spectrum of fields.

The Firm

Lior & Co., Advocates was established in 1989 and has since built a wealth of experience and a distinguished reputation.

Our expertise lies in delivering creative and pragmatic solutions to complex and sensitive situations, crises, and conflicts across a wide spectrum of fields.

Advising and representing clients before government ministries, municipalities, administrative authorities, the State Comptroller, and regulatory bodies, drawing on decades of experience providing legal services to such entities.
Ongoing legal counsel to corporations, commercial litigation, transaction support, business ventures, projects, and tenders.
Handling real estate transactions and urban renewal and redevelopment projects, including legal advice and representation in planning and zoning matters.
Advising, supporting, and representing clients across the full spectrum of civil law, including contracts and agreements, monetary claims, labor law, intellectual property, defamation, and privacy protection.
Ongoing legal counsel to political parties, labor unions, non-profit associations, public benefit corporations, and charitable trusts.
Proven litigation skills, combined with extensive experience in dispute resolution and crisis management, provide clients a decisive advantage in court. This advantage is increasingly valuable given the accelerating trend of courts urging parties to resolve disputes through alternative means.
Advising and supporting clients in dealings with municipalities, government ministries, the State Comptroller, the Registrar of Companies, the Registrar of Databases, the Registrar of Political Parties, planning and zoning authorities, and the National Insurance Institute.

Core Practice Areas

Core Practice Areas

Practice Areas

Advising and representing clients before government ministries, municipalities, administrative authorities, the State Comptroller, and regulatory bodies, drawing on decades of experience providing legal services to such entities.
Ongoing legal counsel to corporations, commercial litigation, transaction support, business ventures, projects and tenders.
Handling real estate transactions and urban renewal and redevelopment projects, including legal advice and representation in planning and zoning matters.
Advising, supporting, and representing clients across the full spectrum of civil law, including contracts and agreements, monetary claims, labor law, intellectual property, defamation, and privacy protection.
Ongoing legal counsel to political parties, labor unions, non-profit associations, public benefit corporations, and charitable trusts.
Proven litigation skills, combined with extensive experience in dispute resolution and crisis management, provide clients a decisive advantage in court.

This advantage is increasingly valuable given the accelerating trend of courts urging parties to resolve disputes through alternative means.
Advising and supporting clients in dealings with municipalities, government ministries, the State Comptroller, the Registrar of Companies, the Registrar of Databases, the Registrar of Political Parties, planning and zoning authorities, and the National Insurance Institute.

Our Unique Expertise

Complex Problem Navigation

Identifying efficient and pragmatic solutions to complex challenges, grounded in a thorough and profound understanding of each situation.

Crisis & Risk Mitigation

Delivering decisive support in crisis situations, drawing on extensive experience in managing legal and business emergencies, and tailoring our approach to the unique needs of each client.

Sensitive & High-Stakes Matters

Judicious management of sensitive and entangled situations, applying creative and unconventional strategies that conserve time, resources, and energy while achieving effective resolutions.

Strategic Counsel for Executives

Advising executives and decision-makers on complex issues of public law, regulation, and business.

Anticipating risks and delivering tailored strategies to minimize, mitigate, and manage them effectively.

Identifying hidden opportunities and translating them into actionable plans.

Bespoke Institutional Strategy

Crafting holistic, integrated legal strategies that create organizational coherence.

Aligning diverse internal and external stakeholders to ensure institutional cohesion.

Breaking new ground and paving the way for our clients’ success and growth.

Unique Expertise

Delivering decisive support in crisis situations, drawing on extensive experience in managing legal and business emergencies, and tailoring our approach to the unique needs of each client.

Judicious management of sensitive and entangled situations, applying creative and unconventional strategies that conserve time, resources, and energy while achieving effective resolutions.

Identifying efficient and pragmatic solutions to complex challenges, grounded in a thorough and profound understanding of each situation.

Advising executives and decision-makers on complex issues of public law, regulation, and business.

Anticipating risks and delivering tailored strategies to minimize, mitigate, and manage them effectively.

Identifying hidden opportunities and translating them into actionable plans

Crafting holistic, integrated legal strategies that create organizational coherence.

Aligning diverse internal and external stakeholders to ensure institutional cohesion.

Breaking new ground and paving the way for our clients’ success and growth.

The Firm’s Partners

The Partners

The Firm’s Partners

We regard it as our mission to serve as trusted allies and confidants to our clients.

Our enduring commitment is to gain a profound understanding of each client’s needs and challenges, to provide attentive and dedicated support, and to deliver counsel that is both sophisticated and practical, securing successful representation and long-standing relationships built on trust.

Shmuel Lior, Advocate

Personal credo:

“Look beyond, see within, and think anew – turning complexity into clarity and vision into reality.” 

 

Attorney since 1985.

LL.B., Tel Aviv University.

Specialist in public law.

Extensive and proven experience in providing creative solutions to sensitive and complex legal and conflict situations.

Trusted advisor and strategic legal counsel to top-level leaders and executives, including prime ministers, cabinet ministers, members of parliament, mayors, chairpersons, and CEOs of leading organizations and corporations.

Held key positions in the public sector:

Chief Legal Counsel to the Labor Party under the leadership of Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Ehud Barak
(1990–2000).

Deputy Chair of the National Insurance Institute Council (2019) and Chair of the Regulations Committee of the Council (2016–2020).

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Gadi Bar-On, Advocate

Personal credo:

“Delivering excellent results, particularly when success appears out of reach.”

 

Attorney since 1995.

LL.B. with honors, Tel Aviv University.

MBA with honors, specializing in Finance and International Management, Tel Aviv University.

Specialist in civil law, commercial law, and real estate, with extensive experience representing clients before courts and government authorities.

Trusted advisor to business leaders, executives, entrepreneurs, and investors.

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The Clients We Serve

The Clients We Serve

Clients We Serve

Our clients benefit from optimal outcomes in the face of difficult challenges and from unconventional solutions to complex and sensitive situations.

In turn, we take pride in the deep trust they place in us and in the long-standing relationships we have maintained with them over many years.

Our clients benefit from optimal outcomes in the face of difficult challenges and

from unconventional solutions to complex and sensitive situations.

In turn, we take pride in the deep trust they place in us and in the long-standing relationships

we have maintained with them over many years.

  • Prominent Public Figures
  • Parliamentary Parties
  • Municipal Authorities and Urban Corporations
  • Electoral Lists
  • Social and Political Non-Profit Organization
  • Workers’ Committees and Professional Unions
  • A Parliamentary Group within the General Federation of Labor
  • Business Leaders
  • Entrepreneurs
  • Investors
  • Senior Executives
  • Private Companies
  • Private Company with Extensive RE Holdings
  • Developers
  • Property Buyers and Sellers
  • Private and Business Clients in Planning and Zoning Matters
  • Residential Associations Involved in Urban Renewal
  • Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Investors
  • Prominent Public Figures Across the Political Spectrum
  • Senior Executives of Corporations and Organizations
  • Nonprofit Associations Advancing Social and Political Causes
  • Private Companies Across a Wide Range of Industries
  • Municipal Authorities and Urban Corporations
  • Large Workers’ Committees and Professional Unions
  • Parliamentary Political Parties
  • Electoral Lists in Municipal Elections
  • A Parliamentary Group Within the General Federation of Labor

Due to our unwavering commitment to maintaining client confidentiality, their identities are not disclosed.

Due to our unwavering commitment to maintaining client confidentiality, their identities are not disclosed.

Clients’ Gratitude

Clients’ Gratitude

Clients’ Gratitude

“When we met you, Shmulik, we immediately recognized not only an attorney of the highest professional caliber, but also a complete, warm, and radiant human being. You are far more than a sharp litigator, you are, in truth, a masterful healer, with the law itself as your instrument of care. Your advice was enlightened and profoundly solution-oriented, and the matter was resolved in a complete and healthy way. Time and again, I was moved to see that your counsel was genuine care, not just legal work. If there were a title of Attorney-at-Heart, that would surely be yours.”
G.D., Holistic Therapist & Musician(following the successful conclusion of a partnership dissolution)
“By the grace of Heaven, we were blessed to work with an attorney of exceptional ability. Gadi, my heartfelt thanks for everything you accomplished for us over these past two years: beginning with gathering the facts and analyzing the situation, continuing with the design of the legal strategy, and culminating in precise execution. Thank you for your tireless dedication, your professionalism, and the meticulous attention to detail that untangled what seemed like a Gordian knot, and brought our case to fruition.”


Y.K., Engineer(regarding a complex inheritance matter)
“Shmulik and Gadi, I hold the deepest appreciation for the way you represented us in court. With wisdom and sound judgment, you achieved the best possible outcome under the circumstances. To your credit, you carried out your work under difficult conditions, with humility, patience, and respect, even toward our adversaries, who attempted by undemocratic means to disrupt the integrity of the electoral process.”




A.P., Member of an Association Committee(regarding legal proceedings on election matters)
“Dear Shmulik, with the release of the State Comptroller’s favorable report, I want to once again extend my heartfelt thanks for the outstanding and highly professional work you did on our behalf. The parliamentary group we founded is a unique political initiative, and our election campaign raised many distinctive challenges, each of which you addressed with precision and expertise. Thank you sincerely, from all of us and from me personally.”



D.H., Member of Knesset(regarding the favorable State Comptroller’s report)
“Shmulik, Mike from the U.S. praised you for solving all his problems in a single phone call, bringing him clarity, saving him from unnecessary complications, and sparing him from the entanglements another lawyer had tried to create. I told him you are also assisting me with a project in Netanya, and that it is simply a pleasure to work with you.”






G.A., Entrepreneur & Finance Professional(regarding a quick, simple, and cost-effective solution to a complex issue)