Arbitrator's-eye drafting
Submissions written for how tribunals actually decide — chronology, documents, quantified remedies — by a firm that also sits as arbitrator.
Commercial arbitration counsel in Israel under the Arbitration Law 1968: Aun & Co. runs domestic arbitrations from notice to award, for claimants and respondents.
Domestic commercial arbitration in Israel runs under the Arbitration Law 1968: the clause defines the arbitrator's mandate, the parties shape the procedure, and the award — once confirmed — carries the force of a judgment. Speed and confidentiality are the promise; a tribunal with wide procedural freedom is the reality. The firm acts as counsel in arbitrations arising from partnership breakups, commercial contracts, construction projects and corporate exits, and brings an arbitrator's understanding of how tribunals decide.
The mandate is read first: an arbitrator's authority is whatever the clause and submission agreement gave, and cases are lost by arguing outside it. The firm then front-loads the documents — arbitrators, unlike judges, typically read everything, so the file is built assuming a decision-maker who will actually check exhibit against assertion. Procedure is negotiated deliberately: timetable, evidence rules and hearing structure are strategy, not formality.
Submissions written for how tribunals actually decide — chronology, documents, quantified remedies — by a firm that also sits as arbitrator.
Every claim and remedy checked against the clause's scope, protecting the award from excess-of-authority attack later.
Procedural tactics that stretch arbitration are met early and on the record, keeping the process's core advantage intact.
The firm has acted in arbitration between former business partners under a founders'-agreement clause, where mutual accounting claims and management allegations required the tribunal to reconstruct years of financial conduct from the parties' own records.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
Usually, substantially. A commercial arbitration commonly reaches award in months to a year and a half, against several years in court — provided the clause is clean and procedural games are resisted early. The tribunal's diary, not a court's backlog, sets the pace.
Not on the merits, unless the parties agreed to an appeal mechanism. Otherwise the only route is set-aside on the narrow statutory grounds of the Arbitration Law 1968 — a review of process and authority, not of who was right.
The arbitration proceeds. A duly notified party that defaults can find an award made against it on the evidence presented, and that award confirms and enforces like a judgment. Ignoring arbitration is not a defence; it is a concession.