In May 2009, FBC was recognized by Dun & Bradstreet as a first rate law firm in a variety of practice areas.  D&B rated FBC in the first tier in eight categories - mergers and acquisitions, hi-tech, capital markets, commercial litigation, communications, real estate, and anti-trust.  This outstanding accomplishment, positioning FBC in third place overall amongst all Israeli law firms in terms of quality, was complemented by the firm's notable growth to fifth place in size, as ranked by D&B earlier this year.  D&B also highlighted FBC's growing practices of banking, dissolution/winding up of companies, and project finance ranking the firm in second tier in these practice areas.