Cross-Border Legal Assistance and International Judicial Cooperation
The firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution team provides legal services across a wide range of cross-border matters, including international legal assistance under the Legal Assistance between States Law, 1998, and pursuant to various international treaties.
We have extensive experience handling cross-border legal assistance requests in both civil and criminal proceedings for foreign states, private clients, corporations, and international law firms.
The firm combines its broad international network with decades of litigation experience in Israel and routinely works in close coordination with leading international counsel to implement and execute legal proceedings and measures in Israel, as well as to mitigate legal exposure arising from complex interstate commercial activity.
Our team offers end-to-end support, from strategic planning of multi-jurisdictional proceedings through on-the-ground management in Israel, delivering practical, efficient, and accessible solutions tailored to the objectives of each matter, generally and in Israel in particular.
The firm represents clients in a range of sensitive and complex proceedings, including:
- International legal assistance to and from Israel, including representation of foreign states, international law firms, and multinational corporations in applications for the taking of evidence under the Hague Evidence Convention (Letters Rogatory)
- Representation and guidance for Israeli individuals and corporations required to provide testimony in proceedings abroad or in the context of depositions conducted in Israel.
- Assistance with recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and foreign and international arbitral awards, including in commercial matters, family matters, and more.
- Assistance in criminal evidence-gathering proceedings in Israel.
- Representation in complex extradition proceedings.
- Advising and assisting companies and individuals in matters involving international regulation, enforcement, and sanctions.
- Managing service of process and authentication of documents under the Hague Convention.
- Advising and assisting in proceedings involving elements of international law (public and private).
