is a boutique corporate law firm of a "one-stop shop" concept, which enables its corporate clients to enjoy the worlds of many - the comprehensive accumulated knowledge and expertise of its professional staff, its extensive national and international resources, connections and infrastructure, and the personal, dedicated professional care of its Team. Regardless of whether it is a question of your
everyday business activities, a complex commercial transaction or a legal action before any court of law, we at DNH offer full understanding of your business, your priorities and your objectives, personal integrity, transparency, good business and legal judgment, constructive counsel, involvement and guidance, quality service, confidentiality and availability. Being a business-oriented firm at heart, and operating on a global scale with international partnerships and affiliates, our firm's national and global infrastructure and connections enable our clients to enjoy a full spectrum of complementary services which are vital for their business operation, such including, inter alia, accountants, government authorities and institutions, banks, strategic consultants and more.
1. WE BELIEVE …
• In knowing our clients and their business, in sharing their vision, dreams and passion, and in being a dedicated partner in their journey to success.
• In identifying our clients' legal, business and corporate needs and in working together to create tailor-made solutions that optimally accomplish their business and financial objectives.
• In promoting our clients' interests to realize their corporate vision and optimize their profits.
• In availing to our clients all tools and complementary services required for them to obtain the best possible advantage in a highly - competitive market.
• In giving our clients security, comfort and control with respect to everything they entrust us with by designating for each one of them a dedicated team to exclusively handle their affairs, by providing full transparency, free access to information and periodic reporting, review and update.
• In being original, modern, innovative, up-to-date, and yet base our practice on fundamental values, such as fairness, equality, integrity and morality.
• In achieving optimal results, through cooperation and teamwork.
• We are all interconnected and interdependent, and each one of us is unique and contributes something different and essential to the whole.
• Expectations should be fulfilled and best value for money should be obtained.
• We are here to facilitate and make things happen
• In what we do, we love what we do and we are good at it!
2. DNH – A UNIQUE FIRM IN A HIGHLY COMPETITIVE MARKET
This is what makes DNH unique in the highly competitive legal arena in Israel, as well as most competent, professional and convenient to accompany your company's local activities:
(a) Our Clients at Heart and Their Business at the Heart of Our Firm – we understand, value, respect, uphold and preserve the importance of each and every client. We believe in establishing long-term relations with our clients and in preservation and promotion of such relations, to explore new business horizons and conquer new financial heights. (b) Our Unique Approach and Our Business Orientation – our firm has adopted the "one-stop-shop" approach, as through our vast infrastructure, resources and partnerships, we offer a much wider scope of services, to include all that is vital for a corporation's life cycle, day-to-day activity and particular transactions. Hand in hand with us, our complementary leading experts are available to guide, support and steer you in the direction of your business, marketing and financial goals. (c) Our Services and Our Service Awareness – as service providers we know that it is all about the quality, courtesy, integrity and availability of our services that makes all the difference. So, here are some of the exclusives we offer to our clients:
• Individual Tailor-made Service Package – on start of cooperation, we identify with each new client the scope of legal services required by them, on the basis of their goals, business characteristics and vision.
• Work Plan – after jointly establishing the required service package, we establish with our clients a work plan for implementation of the above services, taking into consideration timeframes, market constraints, mandatory obligations, events of force majeure and more, aiming at most expeditious ex*****on. This work plan is updated and modified on an ongoing basis, as per our client's changing needs or market fluctuations.
• Budget – in today's competitive markets, we believe in creating best value for money. In DNH's vocabulary, this means (a) to render only the services actually needed by our clients (and not adding excessive unnecessary services); and (b) fair pricing that reflects the actual value of the work done; and (c) consolidation of a service budget jointly with our client, which takes into consideration each client's actual financial ability vis-à-vis their actual service consumption. The said budget is not written in stone, but is dynamic, hence reviewed, adapted, updated and modified from time to time, in accordance with changes in the work plan, the service package and our clients' needs.
• Access to Information and Client Supervision and Control – we furnish our clients with tools to supervise and control the services we render them. For this purpose, in the upcoming couple of months we will be integrating a special feature in our firm's website, which will enable each client, through a user name and password to be provided by us, to have full access to their own personal area, wherein they will be able to obtain all information and documents related to the services we render them. In addition, we provide our clients with reports on the services rendered on a quarterly basis, and upon request, we prepare updates on any changes which may have occurred in the applicable local legislation, which may have influence on our clients' business.
• Availability – Our firm is available and at your service from Sunday to Friday between 9:00 AM – 20:00, and we have a 24/7 emergency service
• Complementary Services – we work in cooperation with various experts and service providers who are available for our clients upon need and demand. One of our most significant collaborations is with Shtainmetz Aminoach & Co. – one of Israel's leading certified public accountants firms, who are also our neighbors. (d) Our Team – As specified in more detail in section D below, our team is truly an A-Team, comprising of careful selection of world class, highly competent advocates, each expert in his/her area of practice, whose accumulative knowledge and experience is comprehensive, offering a well-informed professional service. OUR PRACTISE
The accumulated knowledge, experience and expertise of the DNH Team extends to cover both, domestic and international corporate and commercial laws, and includes mainly the following fields of practice:
• Commercial / Corporate Law – our commercial team accompanies ongoing transactions on both national and international levels. We advise clients on investments, capital recruitments, loans, IPO's and offerings, restructuring, M&A transactions, acquisition of shares, grant of options, issuance of equity securities and related tax issues.
• Contracts – we accompany our clients in all stages of contractual engagement, from MOU phase, through negotiations and until drafting and ex*****on of agreements. Our contractual services encompass sale-purchase, franchise, shareholders, partnership, confidentiality, merger, founders', lease, service, employment, license, option, management, agency, distribution, construction, loan, subcontractors, supply, credit facilities, advertising and marketing, software, FIDIC contracts, supply, consultancy, media purchase, marketing agreements, agreements with publishers, agreements with broadcasting authorities and institutions, affiliation agreements and more.
• Mergers & Acquisitions; Antitrust/Competition – we offer services with respect to a diverse spectrum of transactions, including restructuring, strategic alliances, acquisitions and divisions, takeovers, mergers and more. Our corporate Team experts advice also on all anti-trust and competition implications of transactions, matters relating to IP rights, assets and liabilities of the transacting parties, employee matters arising from such transactions, taxation and regulation concerns that must be taken into consideration, as well as avoidance of creation of illegal monopolies.
• Labor Law – employees and work force form an integral part of corporate clients. DNH provides professional services pertaining to all aspects of employer-employee relations, engagement therein, conduct there through and termination thereof, including without limitation, payment of salaries, employee benefits, pension funds, severance pays and more.
• IP, Technology, Media, High-Tech, Internet – our firm represents companies operating in the media field, including, inter alia, some of the country's well known entertainers, musicians, authors and clients operating in the field of media portals, online marketing, telecommunications and more. In addition, we offer services pertaining to registration, protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, objection to registration thereof, including patents, copyright, samples, trademarks and more. Our technology department advises on optimal utilization of technology and handles transactions related to technology. We represent start-up companies and in our services to those, we also offer services for obtaining of financing from the various government authorities, including the Chief Scientist's Office and various incubators.
• Real Estate – DNH's real estate team handles sale, purchase, lease, planning, construction and registration of real estate properties and rights therein, including change of land designation, parceling, sharing, transfer of rights by inheritance and more.
• Banking & Finance – we specialize in capital raising for clients, including by way of sponsors, investors, private commercial and investment banks, lending institutions and companies, project finance and others. We accompany our clients in credit facility and loan (including bridge loan) transactions, and in dealings with lenders.
• Litigation/Dispute Resolution – DNH represents clients in all instances of the Israeli courts, judicial, administrative, government and quasi-judicial tribunals, as well as in national and international arbitration and mediation proceedings. Our particular expertise is the field of complex commercial litigation.
• Insolvency – DNH's insolvency division handles liquidations (voluntary and involuntary), as well as bankruptcy proceedings, while our corporate department handles stay of proceedings and corporate recovery proceedings.
• Taxation – proper structuring of transactions and ventures is what our taxation experts do best. We provide legal services pertaining to taxation, tax benefits and exemptions, international taxation and double taxation prevention treaties.
