Metaxas & Associates Law Firm

Metaxas & Associates is a leading Law Firm set to deviate from the traditional general practice model, offering first class legal advice and excellent academic and practical expertise in specific, strategically selected areas of practice.

Our aim is to provide the optimum quality of legal services, tailored and integrated business-focused solutions that meet the complex needs of our clients in today’s demanding world and global markets. Our deep knowledge of the dynamics that drive the markets we are focusing on, our ability to provide strategic support and the combination of an international perspective with the profound understanding of the local market, make our firm a top choice in the practice areas of inter alia, energy law, EU caw, Competition, and state aid law.

Head of M&A Law Firm is its Managing and founding Partner, Professor Dr Antonis Metaxas, Dr. Iur. (‘summa cum laude”), Law Faculty of FU Berlin, Professor of EU Law in the University of Athens and Visiting Professor of EU Energy and Competition Law in various distinguished international universities, among others TU Berlin. Prof Metaxas is also Chairman of the Hellenic Energy Regulation Institute and internationally acknowledged top leading practitioner and academic in the field of EU and Energy law having largely introduced it as a distinct academic discipline in the Greek legal market.

Our team works in a collegiate, team-based way, using its collective knowledge, insight, and expertise to tackle the most challenging of cases. Our competitive advantage lies in our strong and stable commitment to the fields of our specialization. We deliver positive results due to the in depth understanding of each of our clients’ special needs as well as of the specific parameters of the concrete business environment in which they are active.

We believe in fostering personal contact and engagement with our clients, building our relationships on transparency, mutual trust and respect.

Main areas of practice

Energy law / Energy litigation and Arbitration: When it comes to the energy regulation and expert litigation field, one could objectively claim that M&A Law Firm is regarded as the pioneer of these subjects in Greece having a focused orientation in the respective fields of practice and expertise for almost 20 years now. Its Managing and founding Partner, Professor Dr A. Metaxas, is Chairman of the Hellenic Energy Regulation Institute and leading practitioner and academic in the field of energy regulation, acknowledged well over the boundaries of the Greek legal market by all international independent legal directories.

M&A has over the years represented the majority or major RES producers, electricity suppliers and major industrial clients in systemic disputes which have, to a substantial extent, shaped the national energy market. M&A’s team comprises of associate lawyers with excellent academic expertise and up to date knowledge of the complex regulatory energy framework. During the last years, our Firm has been involved in a vast number of complex due diligence processes and transactions concerning the transfer of RES production licenses and plants in operation in the Greek market, acting as expert legal advisor in high-profile acquisitions in terms of MW power.

In response to the highly specialized needs of the energy industry, our legal services cover:

-Consultancy on the development, project financing and construction of energy projects

-Legal assistance during the licensing procedure, acquisitions of companies active in the energy sector, legislative compliance, and competition issues

- Expert Litigation and arbitration executed both in Greece and before EU Courts in most complex constellations and cases

EU Law and Competition Law: Metaxas & Associates Law Firm is widely acknowledged in the Greek legal market for its profound expertise and quality in EU law and state aid / competition cases. Our firm’s broad experience in EU, Competition and EU State Aid law enables us to provide high-quality legal services to Greek and international clients in competition, antitrust and state aid cases. The Firm is at the forefront of State Aid practice in Greece with a profound scientific and practical expertise in EU State Aid Rules and their enforcement procedures at european and national level, thus providing targeted legal assistance to both state aid providers in the public sector and state aid recipients in the private sector, as well as to interested third parties, including competitors wishing to challenge the alleged beneficiaries of illegal state aid measures. Moreover, M&A Law Firm acts in the most significant anti-dominance disputes in addition to mergers and acquisitions, as a competition counsel with regard to antitrust policies and regulatory strategies. In particular, our broad experience in competition law enables us to provide high-quality legal services to Greek and international enterprises regarding competition issues in Greece and the EU.

Our expertise in this specialization includes:

-Representation of clients in cases of dominance abuse and claims based on anti-competitive behavior

-Representation of clients before the Hellenic Competition Commission and the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission

-Elaboration of appropriate business strategies with a view to facilitating compliance with the antitrust, state aid and competition law implications of various business agreements and transactions

-Advising on complex state aid law cases and on the design of state aid law schemes with a special focus on network bound industries (energy, telecoms, transport).