This business unit of the Eitan-Mehulal Law Group provides top-tier commercial and Intellectual Property services around the globe.
Commercial Services: Comprehensive Support for Your Business
The life cycle of a company, whether it is a start-up or a large corporation, is based on a sequence of commercial transactions, often interrelated and interdependent. Our professionals offer you and your company a combination of legal expertise and practical business experience to help you smoothly and successfully execute those transactions and leverage them for your company’s benefit.
The commercial team helps you, as our client, at every stage of corporate development, from incorporation through investments, daily operations and corporate governance. We assist with all types of commercial deals, technology transactions, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions (M&As).
By providing you with comprehensive legal support in all your commercial endeavors, we help you build, promote and protect your business.
In addition to our commercial services, the competent professionals in our firm also provide a wide range of intellectual property (IP) services, ranging from drafting and prosecution of patents and trademarks, to due diligence and opinion work, through top tier IP strategizing.
Commercial and Corporate Services
Our commercial and corporate lawyers specialize in guiding companies through every stage of the corporate life cycle — from formation and set-up and ongoing corporate operations through exit. We support the full range of private financing transactions from angel, seed and venture capital investments through bridge loans, strategic investments and sales of shares by shareholders. Our corporate lawyers deliver efficient and prudent work based on their clear business understanding and an intimate familiarity with the latest investment industry trends. This comprehensive approach allows us to bring financing transactions to a swift and smooth closure while protecting the economic aims of our clients. Our expertise in securities and M&As enables us to draft financing documents with liquidity events in mind.
Financial Practice and Project Finance Services
As legal leaders in corporate and project finance, we represent government entities, parties with commercial interests and international financing organizations. Our experienced attorneys have played key roles in the successful financing of major projects all over the world. Our expertise in project financing encompasses all aspects of major projects, which are financed entirely, or partially, by the private sector. We regularly represent local and international institutional investors regarding their investments in local companies. Our securities law experts support companies in public offerings from IPOs to follow-on offerings including all of the required transactions along the way. Because we are very familiar with the intricacies applying to "foreign issuers" under US securities laws and regulations, we are able to provide optimum support to our clients.
Tax Services
Our tax attorneys help businesses to plan and achieve their financial objectives while maximizing their tax advantages. Our team is involved in trans-national tax planning for foreigners and overseas entities with interests in Israel, the United States and other countries. We also support multinationals and individual entrepreneurs engaging in overseas business activities. Our wealth management experts provide estate planning and other services for high net worth individuals.
Backed by many years of business experience, our tax experts advise companies on the correct tax structure for the profitable operation of international entities in Israel. We have, on behalf of our clients, litigated and won cases which have established some of Israel’s most important tax precedents.
We work closely with our firm’s corporate and finance experts to provide our clients with comprehensive M&A legal services including the handling of the tax implications related to financing, investments, mergers and acquisitions.
Technology Transaction Services
Technology transactions are a special area of expertise within our commercial department. Our expert attorneys put their legal experience and business sense to work for clients in structuring, negotiating and implementing a wide array of cross-border transactions.
Drawing on extensive hands-on experience in many industries including technology, media, internet, telecommunications, semiconductors, software, hardware, defense, medical devices and pharmaceuticals, our lawyers provide valuable in-context guidance.
Our technology transaction services also include e-commerce, strategic alliances and joint ventures, privacy policies, outsourcing, tenders and government procurement agreements, due diligence and valuation.
Real Estate Services
We provide exemplary real estate counseling in Israel. Our real estate experts differentiate themselves from other attorneys in the market by leveraging proven expertise in traditional real estate areas such as lending, leasing and asset acquisition with experience in the highly specialized niches of affordable housing, low-income housing tax credits and other tax-advantaged real estate investment programs. We counsel our clients in the zoning, leasing, development, financing, acquisition and disposal of real estate with an eye toward maximizing tax and accounting opportunities while simultaneously monitoring environmental and other regulatory issues. Our hallmark is our ability to close real estate transactions in an efficient and cost-effective manner, utilizing our close acquaintance with local real estate regulations and our business-oriented approach.
Our clients include developers, construction companies, individual and institutional investors, leasing companies, lenders, architects, engineering firms, utilities, railroads and corporate users. The diversity of our client base indicates our engagement in virtually every type of real estate transaction.
Intellectual Property: Protect Your Most Valuable Assets
Your firm’s intellectual property—its patents, trademarks, trade secrets, designs and copyrights—can be its most treasured asset. A properly configured intellectual property portfolio adds to your firm’s value, enhances your marketing and negotiating position and distinguishes you from your competitors. Our IP team provides you with a complete range of legal services for identifying and protecting these assets and providing you with a strategy to create an intellectual property portfolio suited to your needs and your future objectives for growth and profitability.
The intellectual property experts at Eitan Mehulal Pappo Barath & Co. are seasoned international professionals who understand the worldwide corporate landscape and have direct hands-on experience in drafting and prosecuting patent and trademark applications in all the countries and regions important to commercial success in today’s global market. They are graduates of some of the world’s most prestigious academic institutions including Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia University, Wharton School of Business, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Many of our professionals hold PhDs and other advanced degrees in the various sciences and law. They are citizens of, and are licensed to practice in, numerous jurisdictions in the United States, the European Union and Australia, as well as in Israel. A number of our senior staff have worked for prestigious companies including Intel, Schlumberger and Kawasaki, and have provided intellectual property services to well-known international conglomerates such as HP, Phillips and Johnson Motors.
Patent Services
Drafting and prosecuting patent applications requires an ability to learn, understand and rapidly develop in-depth knowledge of your technology and industry. The IP team is comprised of a talented staff of professionals, educated in a broad range of disciplines, who are able not only to quickly understand your inventions but to offer you a solid base of technical, scientific and legal expertise in order to define and claim your inventions with the required scope to properly protect your interests.
Our professionals have managed a wide array of intellectual property projects in a variety of technological and scientific fields including: optics, quantum mechanical devices, semiconductors, medical imaging and testing, medical devices, computers and software, telecommunications, information technology, biotechnology and pharmacology.
As a full-service law firm with legal expertise in all aspects of business, our IP team serves as a single resource to help you protect and realize the potential of your patents and other intellectual property. We offer advice and counsel based on a wealth of experience crafting strategies to enforce and litigate intellectual property and negotiating financing and commercial agreements, mergers and partnerships.
We are committed to bringing our services to you in a transparent format that assists you to manage your intellectual property budget and to control costs. We provide commodity pricing for standard procedures, enabling you to anticipate costs and make informed decisions in allocating your intellectual property budget. For international clients, our cost structure makes us an especially attractive source for drafting and prosecuting patents, not only in Israel, but all over the world.
A Complete Range of Services
Drafting and Prosecution of Original Patents
We draft, file and prosecute applications throughout the world.
High Volume Filer Service Package
We provide special pricing packages for corporations with high volumes of patent filing. Our exceptional writing methodology and quality control processes guarantee that transactions are facilitated in a swift and cost-effective manner.
Opinion Work
We issue opinion letters regarding patentability, validity, enforceability and infringement of patents. In addition, we help evaluate the strength and enforceability of patents.
Due Diligence
We evaluate patent portfolios in the context of due-diligence reviews including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, investments, licensing and other commercial transactions.
Patent Litigation
We have substantial experience and a proven record of success in managing litigation and administering proceedings in the US, Europe and Israel as well as many Asian countries. We counsel clients on how to enforce their rights, challenge third party rights and help them effectively defend themselves against allegations of infringement.
Patent Strategy
We focus on enhancing your portfolio and enriching it from a market control standpoint so that it encompasses all of your know-how in order to create exclusivity and prevent infringement. We assist you in developing a patent strategy that defines the technologies and markets you need to protect, the countries you need to cover and the number of patents you need in order to attain your commercial goals.
Israeli Patents
Israeli companies have a strong foothold in industries such as communications, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, chemistry, agriculture, defense and software. Although the Israeli market is relatively small, owning patents in Israel can significantly impact your business. We provide all the above-mentioned patent services in Israel to our international clients.
Brand Protection Services
Trademarks are an important means of protecting the name of your company and its products and services, which are key assets to your business. An effective trademark supports your brand, which intuitively identifies the company, together with its products and services, and distinguishes it from competitors.
We help our clients create and implement an effective trademark strategy. Our services, ranging from guidance in proper trademark selection and use through registration, enforcement and dispute resolution, assist our clients in increasing their brand value worldwide.
Our commitment to open and constant communication and affordable services, enables our clients to control costs at all times—without sacrificing quality.
International Trademark Services
Drafting and Prosecution of Trademark Applications
We prepare, file and prosecute trademark applications with the relevant trademark authorities in diverse jurisdictions spanning the globe. We bring to the table extensive global experience at affordable and predictable prices. Through our prestigious "Ring of Associates", we ensure premium support of registration processes all over the world.
Selecting the Right Name
It is important to select a name that is legally eligible for trademark protection. To this end, we perform cost-effective international name clearance and trademark searches.
Building Rights through Proper Use
We help our clients minimize the risk of a trademark becoming generic or being attacked by third parties by providing guidance for its proper use in trade shows, web sites and as part of other promotional and marketing materials. With proper protection of a trademark, registration may at times be redundant.
Brand Enforcement and Litigation
We offer our clients unique “brand enforcement packages” which include challenging infringement, dilution and unfair competition in order to protect their brands. We specialize in protecting the interests of foreign clients who do business in Israel.
In conjunction with the above, we offer brand litigation and litigation management services.
Licensing and Franchising Agreements
One of the distinctive added values of our trademark group is our special cross-practice capability in terms of licensing, distribution and marketing agreements from a trademark vantage point. When brand names are the core asset of an agreement, our experts can draft and structure that agreement to ensure protection of the brand. When brand names are involved in any other agreement, our review will guarantee that brand rights are not compromised.
Domain Names
Within the framework of brand protection, we acquire, protect and resolve disputes regarding domain names. In addition, we provide counsel regarding key words, linking, framing and meta-text.
Expert Opinion
Our experienced team is uniquely qualified to provide high-end services including international rights’ assessment and opinions to tax authorities, as well as to serve as experts in court proceedings.
Copyrights Services
Protecting the authorship of your works by copyright registration may be, in some cases, the best way to prevent their infringement. This applies not only to the traditional areas of copyright protection such as art, media, publishing and entertainment, but also to other arenas including technology, computer software, product designs and architectural plans.
We counsel our clients on a wide spectrum of copyright matters issuing from business transactions in addition to disputes involving copyright materials. We guide our clients on how to adopt effective licensing and litigation policies in order to maximize the benefits of their copyright portfolios.
The activities of our hi-tech clients — ranging from Internet-related enterprises to software developers, publishers and packagers - illustrate the dynamic marketplace in which we operate. The strength of our expertise is manifested by our work alongside companies with international goals and requirements, to whom we provide sound advice.
We counsel our clients on how to maximize their copyright portfolio. We negotiate acquisition of rights, perform copyright due diligence and prepare all of the required assignment, licensing and waiver agreements. Our copyright experts specialize in resolving difficult licensing challenges including shrink-wrap, on-screen, standards and adversarial (pre-litigation) licenses, and in devising efficient solutions to infringement matters.
Many of our clients seek in-house training to enable them to manage their copyright assets independently. We instruct these clients on the skills necessary for protecting their copyright in the particular countries where they do business. Clients learn how to identify their own copyright works, distinguish employee and contractor created works, use copyright notices, obtain registration, and handle copyright clearance issues.