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Leor Nouman
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Moti Saban
Partner
Avigail Volinsky
Partner

S. Horowitz leads Israel’s family wealth management practice, specializing in intergenerational wealth transfer, inheritance, trusts, and private clients. Our team has extensive experience advising high-net-worth individuals and wealthy families in this sensitive field.

We offer our clients comprehensive services (One Stop Shop) in global family wealth planning and management and intergenerational wealth transfer, providing creative and sophisticated legal and tax solutions tailored to their individual needs.

The department’s team advises numerous Israeli and international clients on various aspects of family wealth management, international tax planning (including estate tax) and trust management, ensuring efficient management of family wealth and its transfer to future generations. The service is performed in close cooperation with clients, identifying their personal needs and adapting the optimal structure through creative use of various legal tools and extensive experience in legal representation before various courts.

Core Capabilities

  • Intergenerational Transfer – Planning, Trusts and Wills: Planning asset transfers during life and after death, examining family relationships and asset scope to ensure the family’s wishes, values and needs are met
  • Family Wealth Management – Investment Structure Planning, Local and International Tax Structures: Asset protection, estate tax advice and tax structure optimization strategies
  • Establishment and Management of Trusts and Trust Asset Management Companies: Establishing and managing trusts and trust asset management companies
  • Wills: Drafting complex wills to ensure the testator’s wishes, arrange property transfer through inheritance and prevent disputes. We integrate additional legal tools such as trusts and enduring powers of attorney where appropriate
  • Estate Administration: Managing estates, including complex estates requiring expertise in inheritance law, corporate law, real estate and taxation.
  • Representation in Complex Family and Inheritance Disputes: Our legal team has extensive litigation experience, representing clients before various courts in complex inheritance disputes, including disputes regarding estates valued at tens and hundreds of millions of shekels, and family disputes involving companies and complex business activity
  • Agreements and Arrangements Between Heirs: Where advance intergenerational transfer arrangements were not made, we assist heirs in drafting estate distribution agreements and reaching settlements to ensure continued management and returns of family wealth, particularly regarding family businesses
  • Enduring Powers of Attorney, Legal Capacity and Guardianship: Preparing and advising on legal instruments, making unique adaptations to suit clients’ wishes and the scope and complexity of assets as part of comprehensive management and intergenerational transfer arrangements
  • Mediation and Arbitration: Managing and settling complex inheritance disputes through efficient, creative solutions while considering tax implications. Several lawyers from our firm also serve as leading mediators and arbitrators.
  • Philanthropy and Establishment of Foundations and Charitable Endowments: We have extensive experience accompanying donors to public benefit organizations, including complex donation agreements and establishing charitable trusts. We also represent recognized nonprofits and leading academic institutions

We understand the sensitivity and skill this field requires. Our department’s team, composed of lawyers with extensive expertise and reputation in the field, provides quality legal solutions tailored to clients’ needs.

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Private Clients & Wealth Management

Related Expertise

Dispute Resolution
Real Estate
Tax
Employment Compliance
Family disputes, inheritance and wills

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TAX NEWSFLASH – MAY 2026
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TAX NEWSFLASH – APRIL 2026
Groundbreaking decision: Tel Aviv District Court accepts motion for reversal of burden of proof in tax appeal.
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Employer Deposits into Individual Policies to Secure Future Employee Severance Grants
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TAX FLASH – February 2026
Quick update on the lates tax news, rulings and circulars – from undeclared capital to Teva’s tax witholding.
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TAX NEWSFLASH – JANUARY 2026
Our January 2026 Tax Newsflash is here! The Arrangements Law continues: new reporting duty for online platforms (Airbnb) on short-term apartment rentals, comprehensive regulation for taxation of digital assets (crypto), and new reportable positions from the Israel Tax Authority.
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Tax Advise to the New HNW
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TAX NEWSFLASH – DECEMBER 2025
Our December 2025 Tax Newsflash is here! Israel’s 2026 Arrangements Law brings dramatic changes: property tax returns after 25 years on vacant land, new tax exemptions for immigrants earning income in Israel, special banking sector taxation, and major Pillar Two
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TAX NEWSFLASH – NOVEMBER 2025
Our November 2025 Tax Newsflash is here! Israel’s Tax Authority introduces major changes for 2026: new immigrants must now report foreign assets and income, ending 15+ years of exemption. New rules also target “wallet companies” with stricter taxation on undistributed
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Taxation of Stock Options for Employees Who Became Israeli Residents
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Rethinking Transaction Structures
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TAX NEWSFLASH – OCTOBER 2025
Don’t miss our latest insights on (1) the final opportunity for tax benefit in asset transfers to shareholders, (2) new ITA circulars on undistributed profits, and (3) Israel’s draft bill for Pillar Two implementation.
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TAX NEWSFLASH – AUGUST 2025
Are you prepared for significant Israeli tax changes?
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Legal Expenses’ Duties in Israeli Liability Insurance Law: A Landmark Supreme Court Ruling
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TAX NEWSFLASH – JULY 2025
On 2 July 2025, a Memorandum of Law for Amendment of the Income Tax Ordinance (Residency of an Individual), 5785-2025 was published for public comment (“the Memorandum of Law”).
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TAX NEWSFLASH – JUNE 2025
Following the outbreak of the “Rising Lion Operation” (the War) and given the security situation in which the country finds itself, the Israel Tax Authority (ITA) published a series of significant easements concerning the deadlines for reporting and the payment
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TAX NEWSFLASH – MAY 2025
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Copyrighted Works and Training AI Models: The U.S. Copyright Office’s Position
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TAX NEWSFLASH – APRIL 2025
Publication of income tax circular – liquidation and the transfer of assets to shareholders under the temporary provision.
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In recent years, the financial industry has undergone a significant revolution with the widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools.
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On 11 March 2025, the ITA published a position paper on the subject of acceleration of the vesting period for employee share options upon the occurrence of an exit event or flotation of shares (“the Position Paper”). We believe this
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TAX NEWSFLASH – MARCH 2025
On 27 February 2025, the Israel Tax Authority (“the ITA”) published a draft Circular for public comments on the attribution of income to R&D centres. This Circular, to the extent it becomes binding, is expected to have considerable importance for
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U.S. Court: Copyright Protection Requires a Human Author
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TAX NEWSFLASH – February 2025
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Update to Procedure No. 6 of the Ministry of Health – A Breakthrough in Pharmacovigilance Policy?
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Israel’s New AML Directives for Payments
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Lexology: Class Actions in Israel
We are proud to share a comprehensive new article published in the prestigious Lexology magazine by Partner Adv. Uriel Prinz and Adv. Adi Shlomo from our Litigation department, focusing on Class Actions in Israel.
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TAX NEWSFLASH – DECEMBER 2024
After a steadfast struggle with the ministry of finance. An agreed upon compromise is apparent following which amendment of the law for the taxation of “locked in profits” may be narrowed dramatically.
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