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Practice · 03
Dispute Prevention & Management

The cheapest dispute is the one caught on paper first.

Aun & Co. audits contracts, structures and live tensions for dispute risk, giving Israeli and international clients a written picture of exposure before it hardens.

Dispute Prevention & Management is a litigator's read applied before anything is filed. It is for businesses that sense friction — a drifting partner, a contract with soft edges, a counterparty testing boundaries — and want the exposure named and priced while positions can still be shaped. The firm reviews the documents the way opposing counsel would, then delivers a written opinion: where the risk sits, what it is worth, and what to fix now.

The work spans
  • Contract dispute-risk reviews before signature and mid-performance
  • Dispute-risk audits across a company's key relationships and files
  • Written exposure opinions quantifying realistic downside ranges
  • Deadlock and shareholder-friction advisories for closely held companies
  • Pre-litigation posture reviews: evidence, deadlines, first-move options
  • You are about to sign a major agreement and want it stress-tested against a future dispute.
  • A long-standing partner has started acting through side channels and the trust is thinning.
  • Your board wants a number: what is the realistic downside if this relationship collapses.
  • A counterparty's letters have shifted in tone and you suspect a claim is being built.
  • You inherited a portfolio of contracts and no one can say where the exposure sits.

The method is adversarial by design. Every document is read as an exhibit: what would the other side underline, what admission sits in your own emails, which clause fails under the pressure of an actual hearing. Findings arrive as a memo with a severity ranking and concrete fixes — amended clauses, records to create, letters to send — not as abstract risk language.

04 · What you get

Exposure in writing

A memo that names each risk, ranks its severity and prices its realistic range — a document a board can act on and rely on later.

Fixes, not warnings

Each finding pairs with an action: a clause to amend, a record to create, a notice to send. Prevention is treated as work product, not advice-in-the-air.

The litigator's read

Reviews are done by the advocate who would argue the case, so weak points are found the way an opponent would find them.

Positions built early

Evidence and correspondence are shaped months before any claim, when a single well-timed letter can still change the entire posture.

05 · Representative matters

Pre-signature review of a joint-venture agreement

The firm has stress-tested venture agreements for exit, valuation and deadlock mechanics, rewriting the clauses that collapse first when partners fall out.

Exposure opinion for a family-held company

A written downside assessment across supplier, employment and shareholder fronts, delivered ahead of a generational transfer of management.

Pre-litigation posture work before a demand letter

Assembling the record — notices, cure periods, admissions — so that the client's first formal letter arrived with a complete evidentiary spine behind it.

Deadlock advisory in a fifty-fifty company

Mapping the paralysis scenarios in a two-shareholder structure and building contractual escape mechanisms before relations deteriorated.

Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.

What is a dispute-risk audit?

A structured legal review of contracts, correspondence and corporate records to identify where a future claim could arise, how strong it would be, and what it could cost. The output is a written memo with ranked findings and specific corrective steps.

When should a contract be reviewed for dispute risk?

Before signature, ideally — that is when leverage is highest. But mid-performance reviews matter just as much: most disputes are lost in the correspondence and conduct that accumulate quietly between signing and breach.

Is prevention work confidential if a dispute later erupts?

Work done with counsel for the purpose of legal advice is generally privileged under Israeli law. The firm structures prevention engagements so the analysis stays protected while the corrective steps become part of your record.

What does the first exposure assessment cover?

The key contracts, the correspondence around the pressure points, and the corporate documents that frame the relationship. The firm returns a written view of the three largest risks, their realistic cost, and the order in which to address them.

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