Sarantitis Law Firm

Industrial & Intellectual Property

Sarantitis Law Firm provides advice on a wide range of IP matters, offering expertise and experience in copyright and neighbouring rights, trademarks, patents, computer software and database protection & utility models, domain names, industrial designs, know-how agreements, franchise, drafting of license agreements and IP litigation.

Three of the firm's lawyers work mainly in IP, specializing on both transactional and contentious basis, and serving a client base that includes important Greek and foreign companies active in Greece. The firm also has considerable experience in litigation concerning trademarks as well as other IP issues.

In the media sector, Sarantitis Law Firm is also advising several TV and radio stations on IP rights.

The firm also serves as an agent for the registration of Greek, international and European trademarks, patents and local (.gr) domain names on behalf of foreign companies in Greece, following the most cost effective, fast and user-friendly procedures.

Insurance

Given that the firm has dealt with consulting and contentious services in the area of marine and mainstream insurance, since its establishment in 1965, it is highly regarded for its experience and professionalism.

The scope of our insurance practice ranges from traditional claims' management to helping our clients develop existing and new insurance and re-insurance products and plan their strategy and operation. Claims pertinent to employers' liability, personal injury, defective products, loss of cargo, as well as motor claims constitute our day-to-day practice and are, in most cases, handled in co-operation with our experienced litigation group.

Marine insurance has played a major role in the rapid growth of the firm's reputation over the years. Our experience in this field dates back more than 35 years. The firm has been involved in marine insurance hearings both in Greece and abroad and has handled major cargo claim cases on behalf of insurers / P&I Clubs as well as ship and cargo owners.

Labour & Employment

Sarantitis Law Firm has always been actively involved in labour law, which forms a crucial part of a company's activity. The range of our services includes the following:

• Offering legal advice and drafting legal opinions on various issues of labour legislation;
• drafting, preparing and reviewing terms of individual employment contracts of limited or unlimited time period;
• providing legal advice and opinions on various issues related to collective employment contracts;
• preparing and bringing actions before Greek and European Courts regarding labour-related disputes. Our firm has successfully represented clients and has won most of such disputes; and
• supporting clients before Greek and European Courts in actions resulting of labour-related accidents.

The Firm equally takes care of all immigration procedures for both corporate and individual clients completing, among others, in the most simple and prompt way possible the complex procedures for obtaining work and residence permits.

Corporate & Commercial

Sarantitis Law Firm has a diverse corporate and commercial practice representing a wide range of Greek and foreign public and private corporate clients.

We bring experience, technical capabilities and creativity to each client project. These qualities enhance our reputation as lawyers who assist clients to define and successfully pursue their commercial tasks.

The firm's services include the setting up of corporations / corporate structures and advising on investment in Greece and the Balkans, through the appropriate in each case tax pattern. In addition, companies' mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and insolvency do also constitute a major part of our work and are faced not as mere typical procedures but mainly as cost effective / profit making strategies discussed and decided by taking into consideration each client's specific needs and business plans.

Overall, it is the firm's principle to take into serious consideration every single tax, employment, competition and regulatory implication involved in each commercial project, having always in mind how each commercial task could be promoted in the best possible way.

Finally, a great number of agreements' forms, for various types of business activities, such as agency, distribution and outsourcing have not only been prepared by the Firm, but also tested in the day-to-day business practice of our clients, enabling them to enjoy long-lasting business relations established on solid and sufficiently detailed agreements that offer both security and flexibility.

Litigation Arbitration Mediation

The representation of clients before Courts is often an inevitable part of the day-to-day business. Our litigation team of lawyers has extensive experience in a wide range of disputes to offer clients the needed depth of dispute and court practice expertise. The firm's litigation reputation is ever growing, having handled over the years some of the most significant cases ever heard before Greek Courts of all instances. Consecutive victories in multi-million Euro disputes have rendered our litigation team as being one of the best-renowned in Greece and offer our clients safety and trust. Our litigation practice extends to representing clients before the ECJ, the European Court of First Instance and the ECHR.

The firm' s experience in arbitration includes numerous major cases before several Arbitration Panels. Sarantitis' expert lawyers have acted as arbitrators in numerous commercial and public law disputes, mostly in their capacity as honoured members of International and Local Associations and Chambers.