Michael Shine & Partners is one of the leading and most well established law firms in Israel in the Private Client field, specializing in international tax planning, the establishment and administration of trusts, trust taxation and the appropriate reporting to the tax authorities, multi-national asset protection, family wealth preservation, and general legal counsel for multi-national families.
The firm specializes in asset management, the establishment of family structures for the purposes of wealth and family businesses planning. For these purposes the firm permanently employs foreign trust companies in a number of alternative jurisdictions, which are fully licensed and provide exclusive services to the firm’s clients.
Moreover, the firm offers a range of ancillary services complementing these activities, including the incorporation of foreign companies and the provision of foreign directorship, secretarial and trustee services. Furthermore, the firm has extensive practices in the areas of commercial law, real estate (with a specialization in representing foreign residents), mergers and acquisitions of foreign companies which require approval from the Israel Anti-Trust Authority, foreign investments and transactions, and inheritance and estate matters, where the main representation in these areas is of foreign residents in Israel.
In addition to representing private clients from all over the world, including high net worth individuals and families, as well as family wealth funds, the firm’s clients include many international companies and international financial institutions and foreign trade risk insurers, as well as a large number of real estate companies controlled by foreign residents that hold commercial properties in Israel.