Politis & Partners

About the firm: Politis & Partners is a highly-regarded, Athens-based Law Firm with a legacy spanning over 25 years. The firm is dedicated to providing exceptional legal expertise and commercial insight to both multinationals and Greek industry players through a team of smart and dedicated lawyers.

Politis & Partners focuses on business transactions and business litigation with a client portfolio including international and Greek commercial and industrial companies, banks, VC funds and financial institutions. From banking and finance to intellectual property and artificial intelligence, Politis & Partners are up- to- date on the ever-changing conditions of the global business market. Through the insight and market vision of their lawyers across the practice areas, they create legal solutions with an eye to risk management and perceptive counsel with a view to our clients’ growth ambitions.

The firm’s clientele has steadily grown and today includes an impressive list of businesses, organizations and institutions, such as:

• • the European Commission
  • multinational pharmaceutical and industrial companies, some of which are world leaders in their fields
  • large publicly held corporations
  • small and medium private companies
  • emerging businesses and startups.

Politis & Partners’ main scope of business involves banking and corporate finance, M&A, energy, pharma and healthcare, IT law and litigation/arbitration. It is consistently ranked among the best law firms in Greece in dispute resolution, projects & privatization, banking, finance and capital markets, energy, employment, commercial, corporate and M&A and EU and competition.

Areas of Practice
Banking, Finance and Capital Markets: led by Vangelis Politis, who has been practicing banking law for more than twenty-five years, our banking and financial services practice strives for excellence. Partners in our firm have represented major international and Greek banks on almost all aspects of financing and banking transactions including sovereign and syndicated loans, secured and unsecured loans, project and shipping finance transactions.

Commercial, Corporate and M&A: the firm provides a broad range of general business and corporate legal services, assisting clients in the structuring, negotiation, implementation, and operation of their business ventures. Its attorneys provide focused services in general corporate law and contract negotiation, compliance with securities laws and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, competition/antitrust law, personal data and e-privacy, and corporate finance.

Dispute Resolution (Litigation and Arbitration): the firm’s litigation and ADR practice is both national and international in scope. They represent Greek and international clients in major lawsuits in such diverse legal areas as securities, antitrust, torts, insurance coverage, banking and commercial disputes, handling all trial levels from First Instance Courts to Supreme Court.

They also provide counseling services and guidance on a full range of legal questions, including crisis management scenarios, resolving disputes through alternative means outside of litigation, and strategically planning and structuring operations and transactions to mitigate potential litigation risks.

Employment: Politis & Partners possesses extensive expertise in addressing virtually every type of labour and employment issue encountered by businesses. We assist clients in formulating effective solutions to employment challenges that affect the efficiency and productivity of their workforce. The firm has structured sophisticated equity compensation arrangements and has helped multinational clients operating in Greece comply with tax, securities and labour laws applicable to their employee compensation programs.

Energy: the firm has acquired extensive experience in navigating renewable energy deals both domestically in Greece and abroad. They actively assist and advise diverse clients, from large international conglomerates and equity funds to Greek entrepreneurs and joint ventures, in their efforts to invest in projects relating to the demanding and rapidly evolving energy markets in the Southeastern Europe region.

Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices and Healthcare: the firm’s healthcare practice provides high-end legal services to some of the largest and most renowned multinational pharmaceutical and medical devices companies and their subsidiaries in Greece.

They counsel and give specific solutions in the area of regulatory compliance, combining industry-specific transactional and regulatory expertise with an extensive in-house experience. Advice is provided on the most important issues of the sector, such as anticompetitive behavior, patent protection, biotechnologies, marketing practices, pricing and reimbursement, consumer law, product liability, licensing, distribution, parallel trade and many more.

Projects and Real Estate: the firm has substantial experience in project finance and real estate projects. Politis & Partners have represented developers, investors, lenders and financial advisors in the development, financing, construction and operation of capital intensive projects and facilities in Greece.

Information Technology and Telecommunications: Politis & Partners provides regulatory advice to a number of prestigious corporate clients engaged in IT and telecommunications, in relation to new product and business launches, as well as acquisitions and disposals. They have acquired extensive experience in representing purchasers and providers of information technology and telecommunications software, equipment and services over a broad spectrum of transactions, assisting their clients negotiate license and distribution agreements, maintenance services agreements, implementation services agreements, marketing services agreements and reseller agreements.

Intellectual & Industrial Property: The Ιntellectual Property practice of hte firm is dedicated to meeting the legal requirements of both established and emerging companies, and their investors, across a broad spectrum of intellectual property and technology-related issues.