One campaign, not two
Confirmation and execution run together — the court file and the asset file advance in parallel, cutting months from the timeline.
Award enforcement
You won the arbitration. Now the award has to become money.
Enforcement of domestic and foreign arbitral awards in Israel: confirmation proceedings, New York Convention recognition and asset execution by Aun & Co.
An award is a decision; enforcement makes it a fact. Domestic awards are confirmed under the Arbitration Law 1968 and then execute like judgments; foreign awards enter through the New York Convention 1958, whose defences are few and construed narrowly. The real contest is usually practical — identifying assets, choosing the sequence of execution measures, and outpacing a debtor who has had the entire arbitration to prepare. The firm runs confirmation and execution as one campaign, not two files.
The work spans
- Confirmation of domestic awards before Israeli courts
- Recognition and enforcement of foreign awards under the Convention
- Defeating resistance framed as Convention or statutory defences
- Asset identification and execution: accounts, property, receivables
- Coordinating enforcement across multiple jurisdictions
- The award is final, the payment deadline passed, and the debtor has gone silent.
- You hold a foreign award and the debtor's meaningful assets are in Israel.
- The debtor filed a set-aside at the seat purely to stall your enforcement here.
- Assets are spread across countries and the enforcement order of battle matters.
Enforcement planning starts before the award does: the firm maps the respondent's asset picture during the arbitration, so confirmation is filed with execution targets already identified. Formalities — authentication, translation, the arbitration agreement's proof — are treated as jurisdictional, because most enforcement delay is self-inflicted paperwork. Resistance is met on the Convention's own narrow terms, where the case law overwhelmingly favours creditors who arrive procedurally clean.
04 · What you get
Formalities bulletproofed
Authentication, translation and agreement-proof assembled to Convention standard before filing, removing the debtor's cheapest delay arguments.
Assets mapped early
The execution targets identified while the arbitration still runs, so the award lands on a prepared field.
The firm has acted for a foreign award creditor whose debtor held Israeli real estate and receivables. Recognition under the New York Convention 1958 was filed together with interim attachment, so the assets were secured before the debtor's resistance was even briefed.
Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.
How is a foreign arbitration award enforced in Israel?
Through recognition proceedings under the New York Convention 1958 as implemented in Israeli law: the authenticated award and arbitration agreement are filed, the narrow Convention defences are heard, and the recognised award then executes like an Israeli judgment.
What defences can stop enforcement of an award?
Few, and narrow: invalid arbitration agreement, denied opportunity to present the case, excess of mandate, improper tribunal composition, an award set aside at the seat, or public-policy conflict. Courts apply them restrictively — merits reargument is not on the list.
Does a pending set-aside at the seat block enforcement elsewhere?
Not automatically. The enforcing court has discretion to proceed or to adjourn, often against security from the debtor. A set-aside filed as a stalling device can be answered — and frequently is — with an order that makes stalling expensive.