Keidar Law Firm is the leading firm in Israel in the field of non-profit organizations, public benefit companies, Ottoman associations and public endowments and provides these organizations with full legal and professional support from the stage of the organization’s founding and throughout its entire life cycle. In addition to professional support, the firm specializes in providing legal opinion to non-profit organizations, representing non-profit organizations in court and before

regulatory authorities, leading regulatory and legislative proceedings, and advising government ministries and local authorities on these issues.

The firm also engages in arbitration and mediation in a variety of legal areas, striving for a quick, efficient, and professional solution for the benefit of the parties. The department’s excellence is based on the many years of experience of the firm’s arbitrators and mediators, who have served on the bench for many years.

The firm’s clients enjoy a unique combination of first-rate professional expertise alongside excellence and uncompromising standards. In addition, they benefit from personal, professional, creative and innovative legal advice and support.

Our expertise

Keidar Law Firm is the only law firm in Israel with two former non-profit and endowment registrars as partners bringing with them regulatory experience and their experience working within the government.

We provide legal advice and support based on regulatory experience, extensive knowledge, and uncompromising professionalism. This is combined with advanced knowledge practices, innovation, creativity, and a comprehensive understanding of the clients’ needs, providing them with diverse, unique legal solutions and services, with a reputation for proven success.

Our high-quality and unique expertise, include first-rate professionals, including the President of the Jerusalem District Court (retd.), a judge of the Jerusalem District Court (retd.), former registrars of associations and endowments, and more, enables a unique multi-disciplinary perspective that provides the highest quality response to the firm’s clients.

As a result of many years of experience both as regulators and in supporting nonprofit organizations, we know how to bridge different regulatory systems, unique needs, and when necessary, resolve disputes and conflicts between the parties through the firm’s Arbitration and Mediation Department.

Our advantage

Our office is the only office in the country where the registrars of the associations, public benefit societies, Ottoman associations and former public endowments, and those who established some of the procedures and guidelines in these areas, are part of the office’s senior professional staff.

This specific and unique specialization, combined with experience, professionalism, and creativity, makes the Keidar firm a leader in its field.

In addition, the firm boasts a unique arbitration and mediation department, which is led by retired senior judges, who bring their many years of experience on the bench. This makes for an efficient department with high professional standards, which streamlines and simplifies the proceedings between the parties and leads to optimal results.

Customer vision and needs

The firm’s professional approach is based on a work concept that combines legal expertise and creativity with a comprehensive understanding of each client’s unique needs. We advocate personal service, loyalty, discretion and fairness and strive to create practical and effective legal solutions for our clients.

We are guided by the concept that we don’t have cases, we have clients. Therefore, each client receives personal attention and individual care, while we tailor a service package to each client’s needs.

Our relationshipwith our clients is built on deep trust, understanding and cooperation, while providing advice and support, sometimes on a daily basis, throughout all stages of their activity.

Beyond understanding the legal needs of each client, we bring extensive knowledge regarding the unique conduct of nonprofits as well as the various challenges and protect our clients from exposure and risks. We are not satisfied with providing an answer to the legal question, but rather understand the unique needs of each client and accompany them closely throughout the process while providing practical solutions with added value.

We believe that a solution can always be found

Our starting point is to find a legal and practical solution for each client, even where it seems to be an insoluble issue. Every complexity and every challenge, no matter how complicated, is approached with creativity, goal-orientedness, unique professional experience and uncompromising professionalism. Our firm has a great reputation for finding a variety of creative solutions to the most complex issues that meet the requirements of the law and regulation and to the satisfaction of the various clients.

A repertoire of success

The firm’s diverse repertoire includes hundreds of corporations, institutions and organizations, from the smallest to the largest in the economy, including: higher education institutions, hospitals, workers’ committees of large, influential organizations in the economy, philanthropic foundations, educational institutions, synagogues and more.

Providing a solution to all sectors of society in Israel

Our office prides itself on providing professional support and assistance to all sectors of Israeli society, including support for organizations from Arab society, Christian religious institutions from various denominations, and more.