Corporate and Commercial

Corporate and Commercial constitutes a core sector for our Firm. We provide a whole and wide range of enhanced competent services and advice in all fields of Corporate and Commercial Law to local, domestic and foreign small to major multinational corporations, individual traders, shareholders, legal entities, private funds and institutional investors.

Our Corporate and Commercial team has significant specialization and in-depth experience in national and nternational commercial transactions, private-public partnerships and dispute resolutions.

Working closely as a combined team with prominent tax consultants, leading accountants, solicitors in different jurisdictions and international experts network in the market we assist local and foreign clients and successfully pursue swift business regulation disputes focused by the clients’ commercial needs, profit making strategies and feasible business plans.

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Our Expertise

Company formation of all types
Registration of foreign foundations in the appropriate jurisdiction
Formation of foreign corporate entities in a wide range of jurisdictions (including Cyprus, Malta, Luxembourg, Liberia, Panama,Marshall Islands, Isle of Man, BVI, Channel Islands and other onshore or offshore jurisdictions)
Setting up corporate vehicles (SPV), subsidiaries, branches and representative offices of foreign corporations in Greece
Administration of corporate entities and participation in various board and shareholders meetings
Conduct of legal due diligence reports and competence verification with local legislation
Advising on the necessity of increasing or reducing the corporations registered share capital
Advising on directors and shareholders’ rights and liabilities
Insolvency and liquidation
Drafting of loan facilities, shareholders agreements, joint ventures, memoranda of agreement, sale & purchase contracts, management agreements and concessions
Drafting and advising on agency, leasing, licensing, franchising and distribution agreements
Debt collections and defamation
Structuring and negotiating local and cross-border commercial deals
Shareholders disputes, commercial and corporate law litigation
Enforcing foreign commercial judgments and awards into Greece

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Our Experience

We have formed more than one hundred personal and limited liability corporations and more than two hundred offshore companies in various jurisdictions
We are participating as board members in major Greek corporations
Advising major European, Turkish and ex Soviet corporations on a regular basis
Regularly representing major foreign / local companies and business practitioners before various Greek Courts in all types of commercial litigation
Drafting franchise agreements for an Italian corporation
Representing major foreign corporations and law firms for the enforcement of more than twenty foreign judgments / Arbitral Awards in Greece (exequatur) and undertaking the relevant enforcement proceedings against debtors in Greece
Drafting numerous MOAs, MOUs, Management Agreements, loan facilities for major European corporations
We have participated in more than two hundred commercial cases negotiating the terms and conditions for joint ventures, agencies, shareholders agreements in almost all aspects of international commercial and distribution business (hi-tech, merchandise, food stuff, cotton industry, beverages, gift products, cars, services, etc.)
We regularly represent major Greek companies for debt collection