Gerassimou & Partners
Law Offices

A Boutique Law Firm in Greece operating its offices under international standards, providing its Greek and foreign clientele with the highest quality legal services and expertise.

Gerassimou & Partners Law Offices is one of the leading boutique business and commercial law firm in Greece, situated in the heart of shipping and business industry, Piraeus, Greece. We are dedicated to provide a professional, responsive, personalized, attentive and cost effective range of services to our clients in the ever changing business environment in Greece and abroad.

Close business long-term relationships have been developed with a large number of the world’s leading international law firms, institutions and academics endeavoring to be always internationally updated, scientifically reliable and professionally effective.

About Gerassimou & Partners Law Firm

Founded in 2000

50 people in their team


Practice areas
Business
Employment & Labor
Lawsuits & Disputes
Real Estate

Languages spoken
Greek
English

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Practice areas

Business

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.

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

 

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
Administrative
Aviation
Banking & Finance
Board of Investment (BOI)
Business Registration
Contract
Due Diligence
Employer
Franchising
Investment
Legal Document
Licensing
Merger & Acquisition
New Business Formation
Office Solutions
Oil, Gas & Energy
Tax

Employment & Labor

In modern business international employment issues play a very significant role in all the society levels.
We advise our clients on a day-to-day basis on employment issues which sometimes need immediate and adequate response. Apart from individual labour law, we also advise on a full range of mandatory insurance and pensions.

Co-operating with Academics and renowned University Professors in cases of particular complexity, our Labour Department has an extensive and profound knowledge on this continuously changing area of law including:

Our Expertise

 

  • Advising on the regulatory framework employment legislation
  • Drafting and advising on employment contracts, transfers, terminations, restructuring, benefits, remunerations and voluntary exit plans
  • Obtaining of work and residence permits, visas and immigration
  • Retirements, pension cases and other social insurance matters
  • Advising on the collective agreements towards individual employment contracts
  • Advising about all matters of compliance with state regulation
  • Representing clients in litigation before Greek competent courts of all degrees in labour related cases
  • Advising on issues of safety in the employment area

 

Our Experience

 

  • We are regularly representing five Greek corporations on all their labour and social insurance matters
  • Representing a foreign company established in Greece for all their labour work
  • Having represented fifty two employees before the competent Greek courts claiming termination compensation
Employment Rights
Hiring & Firing
Job Discrimination
Labor Law
Pension
Retirement
Sexual Harassment
Social Security
Wage & Hour
Wrongful Termination

Lawsuits & Disputes

Our Litigation, Arbitration and Disputes Resolution Department offers a highly reliable and comprehensive experience in all fields of litigation related matters before Civil and Administrative Court of all degrees, Arbitrary bodies, the Chambers of Commerce, the Piraeus Maritime Chamber, the Athens Technical Chamber and foreign competent bodies.

We also have a thorough knowledge of foreign commercial disputes under the ICC rules. Apart from our trial skills and capabilities, we regularly co-operate with in-house lawyers and professional experts in all pre-litigation matters, setting up well defined litigation strategies for sufficient cost-effective solutions in complex litigation matters.

Our Expertise

 

  • Administrative law litigation
  • Arbitration proceedings
  • Commercial and corporate litigation of any type
  • Dept recovery proceedings
  • Disputes on Defamation and Public Order
  • Employment – Labour disputes
  • Environmental breach of legislation disputes
  • Maritime disputes resolutions
  • Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards
  • Security measures and injunctions
  • Tax litigation

 

Our Experience

 

We have during the last thirty years represented countless clients, from single individuals to major multi international corporations before the various Greek Courts in all the above selected matters.

ADR Mediation & Arbitration
Appeal
Class Action
Litigation

Real Estate

Our Firm Real Estate practice involves the representation in a vast range of local and international diverse clients transactions over the past thirty years.

Our everyday experience is covering the events of acquisition of real estate in the Greek territory and elsewhere, all matters related to the appropriate construction works, the engineering projects and the disposal of private land and housing.

We are among the very few law firms to offer a truly comprehensive advice and in-depth long-standing experience in the acquisition of private islands on sale for foreign and local clients.

Our Expertise

 

  • Advising and effecting cost-effective and speedy title searches for any sale and purchase real estate all over Greece
  • Advising clients on town planning matters, antiquities issues and forestry implications
  • Advising on the regulatory framework, the sale and purchase and the management of “listed” buildings in Greece
  • Advising on all types of leasing (private, commercial etc) of any real estate and drafting the lease contracts
  • Advising on the legal arm of the engineering construction and infrastructure projects
  • Advising on the regulatory framework and the existing legal status for the Greek private islands and drafting the sale and purchase contracts

 

Our Experience

 

  • We have represented numerous Greek and foreign clients in the acquisition of major land sites, high valued villas and houses and major hotels all over Greece
  • We have represented our client in the purchase of the ex Royal Palace at P. Psychico, Athens
  • We have represented our clients in the buildings of five high profile private villas in Attica, south coast area
  • We are regularly advising two major foreign funds for the acquisition of high profile private villas, sites for installation of Mall and commercial property
  • We have advised two major European private clients on the existing legal administrative status pertaining to the potential sale of three private islands in the Aegean sea and the bay of south Evia
  • Participating in the drafting of the legal contracts for the installation of five major commercial buildings in the center of Athens and Piraeus
  • We represented major foreign touristic corporations and have drafted the legal MOAs for the sale of five major hotels in Athens, Peloponnese, Crete, Rhodes and Mykonos
Brokerage
Commercial Real Estate
Foreclosure
Housing, Construction & Development
Land Use & Zoning
Landlord & Tenant
Mortgage
Real Estate Contracts and Negotiations
Real Estate Due Diligence

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