Nicolas Kanellopoulos – Chara Zerva & Associates

NICOLAS KANELLOPOULOS – CHARA ZERVA & ASSOCIATES Law Firm is based in Athens and has an experienced scientific team of approx. fifty (50) lawyers and legal professionals, who approach the various complex legal matters with a high sense of responsibility, set the basis for beneficial partnerships, and make every possible effort to exceed the expectations of our clients.

Our firm is distinguished for providing high quality legal services in many fields of law, always adhering to high standards of quality, consistency and reliability, in accordance with the ISO 9001: 2015 quality standard. Our legal expertise ranges over the areas of corporate law, corporate governance, corporate transformations and restructuring, competition law, as well as administrative and public law in general. More specifically, our Law Firm specializes in the Public Procurement sector, providing legal services for the preparation and submission of  tender proposals (including inter alia public contracts pursuant to Greek Law 4412/2016, Greek Law 4413/2016, as well as PPP contracts of Greek Law 3389/2005), the monitoring and supervision of all stages of implementation of the above contracts, as well as state aid and co-financed projects.

The confidentiality of our Clients’ information, as well as the business continuity of our Law Firm are guaranteed in accordance with the standards ISO 27001: 2013, ISO 9001: 2015 and ISO 22301: 2019, bearing the seal of TUV-Hellas (TUV Nord Group). In addition, our Law Firm is distinguished in the field of data privacy in Greece (RUNNER UP «Data Protection & Privacy Team» 2021 , Silver award «ΤΜΤ, Privacy & Data Protection Team 2022»,  Gold award Best Data Protection Team 2024 and Gold award Best ΤΜΤ, Privacy & Data  Protection Project 2024, – Boussias Law Awards) and abroad (Top Tier Firm 2021 - 2022 – 2023 – 2024 Legal 500 ).  Furthermore, NKLaw Firm also received the gold award for the “Best Real Estate & Construction Team” at Boussias Law Awards for 2022 and the “Firm to watch” distinction  at Legal 500 and was honored with the Most Awarded Firm of the Year 2024 award.

 

Our Law Firm has been the exclusive partner of "International Jurists" in Greece since 2005. International Jurists is a dynamically growing global network of law firms, founded in 1993 and it covers a wide range of legal matters, thus providing specialized legal support and targeted services worldwide, and with special focus on providing legal support in business cross-border transactions.

The law firms- members of the network, including our Law Firm, counts about 1,500 lawyers who work together, with high standards of professionalism, experience and efficiency, in order to provide reliable and modern legal services. The high participation standards in place, the continuous evaluation of the services provided, as well as the building of long-term professional and personal relationships of lawyers, serve as guarantees for the successful, rapid, and team-based cross-border cooperation, in which our company is actively involved.

The Managing Partners of our Law Firm have acquired specialized knowledge and experience, having served as government members, board members of organizations and legal advisors and counselors in crucial areas of public administration, in the fields of Justice, Economy and Development, as well as Tourism, taking on initiatives for the adoption of innovative solutions, such as e-justice, mediation- as an alternative form of dispute resolution-, strategic investments, special incentives to attract capital and the out-of-court debt settlement mechanism for businesses. In addition, they have built a solid and continuous litigation experience, representing both natural and legal persons before national courts, as well as in management of EU funds (NSRF), in PPPs, in public contracts and projects, as well as public international tenders, in development and modern financial tools, in business tax planning, in strategic investments and in tourism legislation, as well as in the implementation of the new regulation on data protection.

Furthermore, our Law Firm has a vast experience in legal consulting matters, in the representation of private and public organizations and bodies in international fora and EU bodies, while its Managing Partners have individually participated in legislative committees of the Greek Public Administration, in working groups of experts, board of directors, international administrative bodies and other authorities.

Our Law Firm also provides legal advice and services, both to Contracting Authorities and to candidate contractors (economic operators), during the auction and / or the conduct of tendering procedures, and during their legal representation in the courts.