Enforcement-first strategy
Forum chosen by where the judgment must ultimately bite — assets first, prestige of forum last.
Cross-border commercial disputes
The dispute is here. The parties, assets and evidence are not.
Aun & Co. handles cross-border commercial disputes touching Israel: jurisdiction and service abroad, foreign-law issues, parallel proceedings and enforcement.
A cross-border dispute multiplies every question: which court has jurisdiction, which law governs, how a foreign defendant is served, whether a judgment won here can be enforced there. Israeli procedure has defined gateways for serving defendants abroad and a statutory framework for recognising foreign judgments; strategy is choosing the sequence in which these mechanisms are used. The firm runs these matters from Israel and coordinates counsel across jurisdictions — with clients in over twenty countries, in three working languages.
The work spans
- Jurisdiction battles: founding it here, contesting it here
- Leave to serve foreign defendants and the fights that follow
- Governing-law analysis and proof of foreign law through experts
- Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in Israel
- Coordinating parallel proceedings and foreign counsel
- Your foreign counterparty defaulted and you must decide whether to sue in Israel or abroad.
- You were sued in Israel over a deal with no real connection to it and want jurisdiction contested.
- You hold a foreign judgment and the debtor's assets are here.
- The same dispute is now running in two countries and the proceedings must be sequenced, not raced.
The firm starts from the end: where are the assets, and which judgment — from which court — actually reaches them. That answer often reverses the instinctive choice of forum. Jurisdictional positions are then built or attacked through the service gateways and forum arguments, while evidence across borders is secured early, before distance becomes destruction. One office holds the map; local counsel execute on their ground.
04 · What you get
One coordinating counsel
Foreign lawyers instructed and synchronised from a single strategic file, so positions taken in one court never wound you in another.
Three languages native
Hebrew, Arabic and English documents read in the original — in regional disputes, translation drift is where cases quietly turn.
A typical engagement: an Israeli supplier is owed under a contract with a foreign buyer whose assets sit in a third country. The firm maps enforcement routes first, obtains leave to serve out, and coordinates local counsel so the Israeli judgment is built to travel.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
Can I sue a foreign company in an Israeli court?
Yes, if a jurisdictional gateway applies — typically a contract made or breached in Israel, damage suffered here, or an agreed Israeli forum. Court leave to serve the defendant abroad is required, and that application often becomes the first battle of the case.
Are foreign judgments enforceable in Israel?
Yes, through recognition proceedings under Israeli statute, subject to conditions: a competent foreign court, a final judgment, enforceability at origin, reciprocity and no conflict with public policy. Success is largely procedural precision.
Which law governs an international contract dispute heard in Israel?
The law the parties chose, in most commercial settings; absent choice, conflict-of-laws rules point to the system most closely connected to the contract. Foreign law must then be proved as fact, usually through expert opinion — a step to budget for early.