About the Firm

After graduating from the University of Sheffield (LL.B.) being awarded 'Division One Honours' degree, attorney Abraham (Avi) Schechter began his professional career in 1993 as a law intern specializing in the field of banking law, company liquidations and receiverships.

After his accreditation as a lawyer, Attorney Schechter dealt mainly in real estate receivership as well as receivership of commercial and industrial companies and running them as a "receiver operator", a field which later became recognized and established in procedures involving
"special management" and stay of proceedings.

Towards the end of 1996, Attorney Schechter became independent, establishing the law firm which he has been heading in managing since its inception.

Today, the firm deals in a wide variety of commercial and business law, specializing in real estate and property law, corporate law, vehicular and transportation law (inter alia, representing vehicle importers), as well as in antitrust law. As a lawyer with expertise in banking, Schechter also deals with matters involving transaction finance, making use of his extensive experience and special expertise in drafting contracts in English, including for financing and carrying out transactions involving high yield-producing commercial real estate abroad.

The work at Schechter law firm is based on a personal trust, due in part to the firm's long personal acquaintance with its clients. The law firm places special emphasis on providing its clients with personalized, loyal, professional and dedicated care in a straightforward fashion. 

Among its clients, the firm counts business executives who run sizable commercial companies as well as family holding companies, some of which are among the leading and best known companies in Israel. Atty. Schechter has been accompanying these clients hand-in-hand over the course of many years – the majority of clients for more than thirteen years.  In addition to the firm's long-time established clients, the past few years have seen the addition of new commercial clients as well as private business people who own high yield-producing commercial real estates. All these clients together have generated a strong and varied client base that has led to business synergy and cooperation among the firm's clients.

Due to the nature of the firm's work, Atty. Schechter has managed to combine a sense of discretion of "everything stays within the family", while at the same time the firm's clients – both in Israel and abroad – are afforded the opportunity to freely contact and consult with Schechter at any time for any legal and commercial advice. Schechter law firm is well known for its ability to meet its clients' tight schedules and pressing deadlines, for the most part doing so almost immediately.

Aside from firm's professionalism and uncompromising loyalty, it is perceived among its clientele as discrete and uncompromising in upholding both commercial and personal confidentiality. This is reflected both in the discretion practiced at the corporate as well as personal level regarding the shareholders of those companies.

Over the years, the firm has represented its clients by providing legal advice in mainly on ongoing retainers to help in managing their commercial and private affairs, including:  

Negotiating and drafting contracts for the import of vehicles from Britain and China and in all matters related thereto; representing clients in their capacity as shareholders in private corporations as well as their varied family affairs, including among themselves and vis-à-vis various government authorities; negotiating the purchase and/or sale of corporations; complex high yield-producing commercial real estate transactions in Israel and abroad, including financing agreements concluded with well-known banks and financial institutions in the United States;  drawing up commercial real estate leasing contracts (leases involving office towers in central and major cities as well as the leasing of rental properties and spaces intended for industry); drawing up various contracts and representing directors and company directorates; representing companies vis-à-vis banks and negotiating for attaining bank finance in various commercial and real estate transactions as well as similar transactions in the field of automotive and vehicular imports to Israel;

Commercial litigation and representing a well-established, leading Israeli firm involved in the import and supply of screws as well as technical and electrical assemblies intended for industry in general and in particular for the high-tech industrial sector; representation of a high-tech company involved in the fields of Homeland Security, planning and integration of sophisticated mobile electronic systems, both fixed and mobile, designed to secure airports and train stations abroad, as well as the enhancement and integration of detection and early warning systems installed in aircraft.