Sagias and Partners Law Firm

The firm: On an international level, Law firm “Sagias & Partners” is a privileged partner of Dentons law firm and a member of the Dentons network. Our law firm is located in Athens, and has established offices in Brussels specializing primarily in EU and competition law. Our law firm has also a tax division and consults major foreign clients on complex Greek and Cypriot tax law issues.

We have been rendering legal services for about 40 years and we are bound to keep on excelling in advising our clients efficiently and reliably on most complex and challenging legal issues covering both public and private sectors.

Quality certification: We are the first ever law firm in Greece to have been certified in 2009 by ELOT with ISO 9001 Quality Management System in all fields of law, as an effect of high standards of diligence, specialization, expertise and calibre of our partners and associates as well as state-of-the art infrastructure in systems and procedures. ISO 9001 certification not only ensures that our clients receive top quality legal services but also that our law firm practices in a perfectly compatible and most advanced international system in this respect.

Projects and privatization: Our firm is considered a pioneer in this practice area and a leader in the Greek market, being involved in most of the important privatization projects on Greek territory since the emergence of the first privatizations in the mid-1990s, along with the adaptation of the Greek economy to the rules of the free European market. Our senior partner, Spyros Sagias, and our partner and head of the practice, Ifigenia Vourdouni, have been involved in numerous cases of privatizations, either on the part of the state acting as the contracting authority or as a counsel for the private clientele with their participation in the privatization projects.

The establishment of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund recently has greatly boosted this sector in Greece and our firm has been involved in many high profiled Greek privatization projects.

As major projects in recent years, we have assisted two major clients, Cosco Group of China and Mitsui & Co of Japan, in their efforts to acquire the majority of shares of the two major port authorities of Greece, Piraeus and Thessaloniki, the Greek partner of Emma Delta that acquired the Greek gambling company and the private equities that acquired the Greek horseracing organization.

Dispute resolution: Our law firm provides full services in matters of dispute resolution, both in out of court procedures and negotiations and in litigation matters before the competent Greek and European courts of every instance.

Sotiris Perivolarakis, managing director/partner, is a very experienced court lawyer, who have organized a high standard team to confront any such matter. Our very own in-house senior advisor, Prof Harissios Tagaras, who served as former President of Chamber, in the European Union Civil Service Tribunal provides the most useful and precise advice concerning major cases.

Commercial, corporate and M&A: Our law firm has provided a multidisciplinary support to Greek and foreign companies on a wide range of commercial and corporate issues arising from their business activities on the Greek territory. Our partners Mr Nikolas Sagias and Mrs Eleni Siouti have assisted in a consistent manner leading actors in the Greek market with day-to-day company issues and in parallel, represented them in an efficient manner in major transactions such as company buyouts, mergers and business deals.

We have been the major consultants during the last years of major international groups that control the port authorities of major ports of Greece, and have acted on behalf of them for the establishment and reformation of former state-owned companies so that they could meet the needs of the ever evolving financial environment.

Real estate and construction: Our law firm maintains a separate practice acting on multidisciplinary real estate legal matters, under the supervision of our senior partners, namely Mr Spyros Sagias and Sotiris Perivolarakis, who are assisted by our senior associate Ms R Michalopoulou, a highly qualified attorney in real estate legal consulting. We have a long history in the practice area since the inception of our law firm. In particular, we have represented private investors, willing to invest on the Greek territory namely on private islands or large properties located in the Greek mainland, in the legal evaluation of the real property on owned by major state organization in cooperation with international financial advisors. For instance, we have been involved in the legal evaluation of over 100 plots of the Greek Tourist Agency of Real Property and the property of the Greek railroad company, as well.