PPT Legal

The M&A practice at PPT Legal combines our lawyers’ in-depth knowledge of finance, corporate, competition, employment, regulatory, insolvency and tax law. Our lawyers advise domestic and multinational companies in all legal aspects during every stage of a transaction from conducting legal due diligence, drafting and negotiating the share purchase and other agreements and corporate documents of the merged company to the implementation of mergers and post-integration matters.

Our lawyers provide legal services in relation to:

• public and private mergers;
• strategic mergers;
• joint ventures;
• buy-outs;
• spin-offs;
• tender and exchange offers;
• sale and purchase of assets and liabilities;
• sale and purchase of shares;
• cross-border and domestic consolidations and restructurings.

PPT Legal has provided clients legal support and advice in major and complex transactions. Our lawyers have extensive expertise and work in teams enabling them to efficiently address all legal aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

PPT Legal has extensive knowledge and represents local and international developers, investors, private equity funds and major corporations on all aspects of real estate property acquisition, development and construction.

Our wide legal expertise covers the following areas:

Legal advice on proprietary matters including sale and purchase, donations, inheritance, division, distribution and joint ownership;

Legal advice on properties subject to special applicable legislation such as church law and legal limitations such as environmental and urban planning, protection of forests, antiquities, border areas etc.;

Legal due diligence including search on titles of ownership and encumbrances as well as setting up real estate portfolios and data rooms;

Elaboration and negotiation of complex property contracts such as sale and purchase, sale and lease back, commercial leases, construction and project management of professional and residential buildings and agreements regulating their subsequent operation and use;

Investment planning and financing, including equity financing, loan restructuring, joint ventures, real estate mergers and acquisitions, tax planning, privatization and international public tenders;

Dispute resolution.

The firm has a wide-ranging disputes practice and regularly represents clients in complex disputes across all sectors and industries. Our services range from advisory work, negotiation and alternative dispute resolution, to representing clients in courts at all levels and arbitration tribunals around the world. Our lawyers focus on understanding the client’s business and objectives and are committed to finding efficient and cost effective solutions to any dispute.

PPT Legal maintains close relationships with a wide network of leading law firms and counsels in foreign jurisdictions and works with them on particular matters as a combined team providing clients with cross-border advice in multi-party and multi-jurisdictional issues. Our clients include financial institutions, shipping companies, airline carriers, retailers, entrepreneurs, insurers, reinsurers and real estate developers.

Our experience in multi-jurisdictional litigation and international arbitration provides clients with practical and effective advice and has a proven track record of success in litigation, arbitration and other dispute resolution mechanisms.

The insurance practice group of PPT Legal is headed by our insurance partner Dr. Alexandros Kalantzis and staffed by specialized and experienced lawyers.

Our firm has extensive experience in handling high profile litigation insurance law cases, representing clients as plaintiffs or defendants and counselling and advising clients, local and international insurance and reinsurance companies, banks and commercial companies on a wide variety of insurance law matters. Among the many cases handled by our firm, we have acted for the plaintiff in probably the biggest insurance claim ever filed in Greece which ended successfully for the client. We have also represented one of the biggest reinsurance companies of the world acting as its defense attorney in several matters and cases.

Dr. Alexandros Kalantzis is the 2015 Winner in the category of Insurance Law Firm of the Year - Greece in the Law Awards of 2015 of Finance Monthly.

V&P has extensive experience advising clients on the acquisition, exploitation, use and enforcement of intellectual property on both a domestic and European level.
Our lawyers can assist clients in identifying, registering and protecting their intellectual property rights.

We advise on:

• protection and registration of all intellectual property rights;
• patents, trademarks, copyright, industrial design and trade secrets;
• license, franchise and distribution agreements and related commercial agreements;
• IP litigation;
• branding, advertising, marketing, packaging and labeling.