INFRASTRUCTURE, TENDERS AND PROJECT FINANCE

Firon is one of Israel’s leading law firms in the field of energy, infrastructure, and project financing. Over the years, the firm has successfully supported groundbreaking projects worth billions of shekels both in Israel and around the world. Inter alia, the firm has successfully accompanied the construction of the country’s largest and most challenging projects with national significance for the economy and finances of Israel.

The firm has made its mark on every public space in the State of Israel, in projects involving the construction of roads, tunnels, railways, ports, desalination plants, power plants, renewable energy, defense projects, courts, government buildings, rental and housing projects. It is with good reason that the firm’s activities have not escaped the notice of the Israeli and overseas rating agencies, who consistently rank Firon as one of the leading firms among the elite group operating in the fields of infrastructure, projects, energy and project finance.

The firm has a unique track record and years of accumulated experience in managing some of the largest infrastructure projects in history, including BOT, PFI, PPP and BOO projects. For many years, the firm has provided its support on complex, substantial projects that have included the Red and Purple Lines on the Tel Aviv light rail (PPP, the tender for the Blue Line on the Jerusalem light rail (PPP), the tenders for the Green and Purple lines on the Tel Aviv light rail, the tender for the Haifa-Nazareth light rail project (PPP), representation for the Ministry of Defense construction tenders, representation of the H2ID development company, representation of government companies – such as the rental apartment company, Nativ Ha’or (a subsidiary of IEC), representation of the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, as well as the Natural Gas Authority, and many more.

In addition, the firm provides support on a wide spectrum of energy projects including water, gas and renewable energy, as well as for solar energy, wind energy, server farms and energy storage. The firm’s lawyers specialize in accompanying all aspects of a project, including public tenders, project financing, drafting infrastructure agreements between the parties to the project, and resolving disputes that may arise in the course of the project. In this context, the firm has particular expertise in preparing and managing negotiations in relation to procurement and construction agreements (EPC), operation and maintenance agreements (O&M) and energy purchase agreements.

The firm’s team has wide expertise in promoting complex, investment-intensive energy projects with Israeli and foreign commercial companies who are among the largest in their fields in the energy and infrastructure sectors, as well as with overseas investors, government entities and advanced technology bodies, and in accompanying and representing the leading entrepreneurs and contractors in the economy, a wide range of public bodies and institutions from the state authorities, non-profit organizations, colleges and finance entities. In addition,  the firm represents the major banks, as well as government companies, in a cross-section of projects in the various infrastructure sectors, including transport, energy, water, public housing and more.