Petalas & Partners Law Firm

Dispute Resolution
 

Our team handles an extensive range of civil, intellectual property, commercial, labour, administrative and fiscal disputes and provides practical solutions to all clients when a conflict arises in their day to day activities. The legal assistance provided to the clients always takes into account the case law of the Greek courts, as well as the case law developed by the European Court of Justice and by the European Court of Human Rights.

Our Dispute Resolution practice has a solid reputation for succeeding in the most complex and sensitive litigations involving multiple cases and parties and has the resources and expertise to efficiently handle countless cases yearly.

We also understand that going to trial is not necessarily in the best interest of our clients. Therefore, we always work closely with in-house counsel to develop the appropriate strategy and ensure that any potential amicable settlement advantageous to the client is reached or, alternatively, to ensure the most cost-effective and efficient litigation model suitable to the client’s needs.

We handle complex issues pertaining to property law, commercial relationships, products liability, construction and engineering, environmental law, planning and regulatory, intellectual property and information technology, competition and antitrust, public acquisition procedures, insolvency and bankruptcy.

Corporate and Commercial matters
 

Our practice is valued for its excellent integration of all required legal expertise and for the multi-disciplinary support provided to our clients in shaping their operational objectives, financial data and transaction parameters into a realistic business scenario, as well as for providing creative solutions to complex legal issues.

We provide assistance in virtually all matters related to cross-border and local projects, transaction structuring and development of risk mitigation strategies, as well as a coherent and sound contractual framework for the implementation thereof whether in acquisition, restructuring, joint venture, privatization, merger, de-merger or spin-off projects.

More specific, our legal advice regarding corporate and commercial matters covers the following fields:

• Setting up companies in Greece and abroad
• Legal advice for company concerning the day to day activity
• Negotiation, drafting and advice on a wide variety of commercial contracts, both domestic and international, including manufacturing, sales, agency, distribution, services and supply agreements including consumer compliance issues
• Incorporation of companies
• Legal advice for company concerning the day to day activity
• Negotiation, drafting and advice on a wide variety of commercial contracts, both domestic and international, including manufacturing, sales, agency, distribution, services and supply agreements including consumer compliance issues
• Incorporation of companies
• Establishing of branches
• Associations and various organizations
• Registration of representative offices
• Dissolution of companies
• Corporate restructuing
• Share transfers
• Legal advice on investments, capital markets, securities and privatization
• Legal assurance to corporate activity
• Company search and analysis
• Advice on tax issues: income tax, profit tax
• VAT legal related issues
• Legal assistance for various types of partnerships and arrangements
• Leasing transactions
• Supply and public acquisitions cont
• Debt recovery procedure
• Transfer of the company’s assets
• Reorganization of the companies, mergers and acquisitions projects
• Legal analyze and due-diligence
• Consultancy and advice regarding forming, function, liquidation, bankruptcy procedure, mergers and acquisition of the companies
• Setting up working points, branches
• Drafting legal documents: constitutive acts; additional acts; GMA decisions
• Fulfilling all the requirements regarding the Trade Registry procedure or any other public institutions
• Assistance in preparation and reviewing of the GMA meetings and the Board of directors, issuing the shares, the offers, increasing or decreasing the social capital of the companies
• Formation of the non-governmental organizations
• Foreign investments and off-shore companies
• Foreign entities taxation

Intellectual Property
 

Our practice area with regard to the intellectual property counselling is focused on the following:

• Patents
• Trademarks
• Trademark Surveys
• Design and Models
• Copyrights
• IP Litigation and Dispute Resolution
• Data Protection
• Legal advice on Greek intellectual property law
• Drafting contracts related to the protection of intellectual property
• Assistance and representation before the authorities linked to the intellectual property issues.

Family Law

Petalas & Partners Law Firm assists clients in a large range of family related legal issues, being focused on:

• Divorces, partitions, entrusting the minors, alimonies
• Paternity recognitions, paternity doubts, adoptions
• Adoption law
• Succession law

Labour Law

Petalas & Partners Law Firm assists clients in a large range of labour related legal issues, being focused on:

• Drafting employment contracts and employment regulations
• Legal advice on employment issues
• Legal solutions concerning the collective lay-outs, internal regulations, job description
• Legal solutions in view of collective lay-outs and various negotiations and representation in disputes with Trade Unions
• Transfer contracts between companies, branches of the some company or between the main company and other branches affiliated or not
• Legal advice in relation to the day to day issues of the companies
• Alternative solutions and wages outlines which concur to a fiscal optimization
• Mediation of the labor disputes
• Security and health on the working place
• Transfer of the companies: the dynamic of the working relation between employees of the sold company and the company bought
• Outlines for voluntary retirement
• Outlines for private pensions
• The state budget system
• Complex litigation in the field of labor law

Real Estate
 

Our Real Estate practice has unique experience in all types of real estate projects, from office buildings, residential and logistic related projects to handling concession agreements and public-private real estate partnerships.

We provide extensive assistance to our clients on real estate projects from inception to exit by performing due diligence analysis on the target property, drafting transaction documents, assisting in the negotiation process and providing clients with flexible and creative solutions to legal issues and deadlock situations and we undertake:

• Title checking
• Legal advice on property acquisition and disposal
• Transfer of property agreements

Insurance
 

Petalas & Partners Law Firm provides advice on all aspects of the insurance business, focusing its counseling on:

• regulations on insurance companies and insurance brokers
• life and property and casualty insurance policies (contractual audits, reinsurance contracts, notified losses, advice on adequate insurance policies, drafting and analyzing insurance documents, etc.)
• assistance in services contracts, insurance sales (whether online or through brokers)
• tax aspects of insurance (taxation of insurance companies and brokers, taxes on insurance premiums and payments)
• litigation arising from insurance sales or claims, alleged unfair practices or anti-competitive behavior.

Our Firm thus acts for businesses present on the insurance market (insurers, brokers and reinsurers), as well as for any companies which either face insurance problems or wish to provide insurance services.