A.M. Nomikos operates a commercial, corporate and ship management service for ship owning entities. The company employs approximately 1,000 staff worldwide on land and sea based operations. The head office...

A compact but highly skilled and motivated group, adidas’ Greece-based legal team is an integrated and highly successful component of the major sportswear group’s global legal and compliance function. Recently,...

Aegean Airlines is the flag carrier airline of Greece and the largest Greek airline by total number of passengers carried, by number of destinations served and by fleet size. Aegean...

American International Group, also known as AIG, is a multinational finance and insurance corporation with an expanding operation in Greece. The compact in-house legal team at AIG in Greece is...

Led by Lilian Kontou, who in her position as legal director for South East Europe oversees legal matters for the company in Greece, Bulgaria and Romania, the Air Liquide Hellas...

Alpha Bank is an institutional powerhouse within Hellenic banking, with a 140 year presence in the Greek banking market and a longstanding footprint in Cyprus. The bank offers a wide...

The recently established legal function of APIVITA has been entrusted with acting as the company’s primary legal advisor on a wide range of legal issues, with the lion’s share of...

AstroBank, formerly Piraeus Bank Cyprus, offers a full range of financial products and services to domestic and international clients, including retail, SME, corporate banking, private banking and IBU. Since helping...

Tasked with providing legal support for the myriad of operations that Athens International Airport is involved in provides a variety of work for the company’s legal team. Its consistent success...

Since being established in 1983, Atlantic Insurance has grown into one of the largest insurance companies in Cyprus. The insurance provider’s legal department has contributed significantly to a highly successful...

The seven-person Attica Group legal team is led by general counsel and director of legal and corporate affairs Yiota Krassakopoulou, who prioritises a hierarchy that is ‘as flat as possible’...

Chief legal officer Katia Santis leads Bank of Cyprus’s 23-strong and highly capable in-house legal team spread across three working teams headed by dedicated managers: Vasiliki Kammitsi Michaelidou heads the...

The in-house legal team at the Bank of Greece, Greece’s central bank, is a highly talented group of lawyers spread around the country delivering top quality legal service, analysis and...

The highly capable legal team at Brink’s Hellas, the Greek outfit of the global security firm, handles all transactional and litigation matters for the company including in the areas of...

Established in 1963, the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC)’s is today mainly responsible for implementing the European Central Bank’s monetary policy decisions, supervising Cypriot banks, safeguarding the stability of the...

Centrofin Management’s legal function has been headed by its now general counsel Sophia Tsami since 1996, during which she has amassed an extremely detailed knowledge of legal requirements including, but...

Citi’s Greek legal team is made of industry professionals highly skilled in institutional banking, particularly within the global shipping industry, private banking, global markets and corporate investment banking. Citi Greece...

Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company (CCHBC) has a legal function of approximately 100 in-house lawyers operating across 28 countries. The group in-house legal team consists of ten lawyers that are located...

In-house legal advisor Mirka Efthymiadou explains that the Columbia Shipmanagement legal team has expanded and grown with the business and is now four strong. As well as herself, Efthymiadou is...

A fully integrated business development organisation which services key industrial and technological sectors in Greece and abroad, focusing on the energy, construction and infrastructure sectors, Copelouzos Group provides a particularly...

Cyprus Airways was the flag carrier airline of Cyprus. It was established in September 1947 and ceased operations in January 2015. In July 2016, Charlie Airlines acquired the rights to...

The in-house legal team at CySEC is highly adept at translating EU financial regulatory frameworks into a Cyprus context and other financial oversight activities, including anti-money laundering. It is involved...

Cyprus Trading Corporation’s lean in-house legal team achieves fantastic results by leveraging the impressive talents of its lawyers through the adoption of a horizontal organisation, which allows a degree of...

Usually comprising five individuals – four lawyers, including general counsel, Emmanouil Asikis, and a legal intern – the Deloitte Greece in-house legal team has been extremely busy over the past...

Deutsche Bank (DB)’s Greek in-house legal contingent is an extremely important component of its cross-border team. Katerina Papageorgiou is the head of legal and compliance for Greece and also compliance...

Dixons Group, which is one of the leading European groups regarding the sale of electric appliances, operates Kotsovolos – the number one electronic and electric goods chain in Greece, with...

The leading purveyor of ice cream in Greece, Dodoni Ice Cream maintains a highly competent three-person in-house legal department led by general counsel Christina Karakosta. The team is regarded as...

Easybrain is an exciting new mobile game developer responsible for App Store and Google Play chart-topping games including Sudoku.com and Pixel Art. It has offices in both Belarus and Cyprus....

Responsible for managing all legal affairs including the company’s representation before courts and arbitral panels, reviewing the company’s contractual engagements, handling issues related to its customers, and managing external law...

ELTA (Hellenic Post) is the state-owned provider of postal services in Greece. It succeeded the former government postal service, that was founded in 1828. ELTA provides a universal postal service...

Anastasios Tamamidis, director of legal services, leads the in-house legal team at ERGO, one of Greece’s most important insurance companies. He is a strong legal professional with a PhD focused...

Eurobank has one of the largest and most highly specialised in-house legal departments in Greece and Cyprus, and includes the capital markets, investment banking, wealth management and strategic and international...

Eurobank is one of the largest and most important banks in Greece and across the Balkans and South Eastern Europe, and the individuals operating in its multiple legal divisions make...

To achieve a competitive advantage in the fast-growing banking and financial services sector, Eurobank Cyprus has made great efforts to recruit a legal team consisting of highly specialised professionals. The...

Konstantinos Antonakis, general counsel, leads the legal team at Eurolife ERB Group, in Greece which is made up of the life insurance and general insurance divisions. Antonakis is a capable...

EYDAP is the publicly listed but state-owned municipal water and sewage company of the city of Athens and the largest company of its kind in Greece serving over 4.3 million...

Led by head of legal and compliance Periklis Stroumpos and ably supported by a team of senior individuals, the Fraport Greece in-house legal team is home to a great deal...

Operating as a subsidiary of FxPro Group, leading online broker FxPro Financial Services was founded in 2006 and is based in Cyprus. The company’s in-house legal team has earned significant...

Formed in 1951 by Bank of Cyprus, General Insurance of Cyprus was the first domestic insurance provider in Cyprus and has been a leading provider ever since. The company maintains...

Responsible for a full range of ship maritime services for virtually any type of ship afloat, Global Maritime Group has programmes devoted to technical services, hotel operations, crewing, entertainment and...

Hellas Gold, the Greek subsidiary of the listed Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold Corporation, is active in exploration and exploitation of gold, copper and other minerals, implementing one of the...

Chief legal officer Calliopi Nicolaidou is clear that each of the 19 members of the Hellenic Bank in-house legal team ‘have added substantial value to the work of the team’....

HEDNO is the operator of the Greek national energy grid network and possesses a set of talented in-house lawyers. The team has worked on a number of major transactions including...

One of the larger in-house teams in the region at 34-strong, Hellenic Petroleum’s legal team brings real internal clout to bear on the myriad issues it undertakes on behalf of...

HRADF‘s establishment in 2011 in order to manage a large number of state assets has been successful in creating public wealth through privatisation of government assets. ‘Acting with a high...

OTE Group is the largest telecommunications provider in the Greek market, offering a full range of telecommunications services. These include fixed-line and mobile telephony, broadband services, to pay television and...

Heracles Group Composed of six lawyers, HERACLES Group’s legal team ensures that the company’s extensive business operations in Greece – where it is regarded as the go-to name in cement...

Hermes Airports is the operator of the two major airports in Cyprus, Larnaka International Airport and Pafos International Airport since May 2006, under a 25 year build-operate-transfer concession. Its in-house...

Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology infrastructure and smart devices, employing around 180,000 people in more than 170 countries. The Greece-based legal team takes charge...

As the largest business services group in Greece, ICAP Group provides a range of services through its subsidiaries. These include credit risk services, marketing solutions, management consulting, and people and...

Independent Power Transmission Operator (also known as IPTO or ADMIE) is the transmission system operator for the Hellenic Electricity Transmission System. The mission of the company is the operation, control,...

Legal manager Eliana Charalambous leads the highly regarded Intership Navigation Company legal team and has been a key factor in its successes over recent years. She explained the team’s role...

Intralot is a Greek company that supplies integrated gambling, transaction processing systems, game content, sports betting management and interactive gambling services, to state-licensed gaming organisations worldwide. The company acts both...

Based across Athens and Brussels, the Intrasoft International legal team is six-strong and will be expanding further shortly to keep up with favourable business conditions. Tzina Prokopidou is group legal...

IronFX is a global leader in online trading with 10 trading platforms and over 200 tradable instruments in forex, spot metals, futures, shares, spot indices and commodities. In addition to...

Jumbo is the largest retailer in the markets of toys, baby items, stationery, seasonal products and home items in Greece with 52 stores in the country and a further 33...

LAMDA Development is a key player in the development, investment and management of real estate in the Greek market. Listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, LAMDA is currently in the...

Responsible for supporting the company’s extensive operations in both Greece and Cyprus, the Leroy Merlin legal function, headed by general counsel Vassilis Kyriakou, has undergone a radical refocusing in recent...

LG Electronics Hellas was established as the Greek subsidiary of the multinational electronics company in 2002, as part of an international strategy for even faster and more efficient growth. The...

A subsidiary of the multinational German supermarket chain, Lidl Hellas opened its first store in Greece in 1999 and today it operates over 220 stores and four distribution centres across...

Listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, Marfin Investment Group Holdings maintains a highly respected and effective legal department consisting of seven individuals, with a further 30 attached to subsidiary companies....

Medtronic’s Greece-based legal and compliance team directly reports to the company’s senior legal director for the region in Germany and has consistently proved the wisdom of the company’s decision to...

Melco Resorts & Entertainment (Melco), formerly known as Melco Crown Entertainment, is a developer, owner and operator of casino gaming and entertainment casino resort facilities in Asia. In December 2006,...

Founded in 1976, Metro is a Greek company that employs over 10,000 people, making it one of the largest employers in the nation. The company’s income is derived from two...

The Microsoft Greece, Cyprus and Malta legal team comprises of a multi-skilled function, containing not just legal personnel but also government affairs personnel, and it collaborates closely with the philanthropies...

Accounting for 48% (537 km) of Greek motorways that are currently under private management, Nea Odos and Odos Kentrikis Elladas are separate motorways with a combined in-house legal department led...

Nic. J. Theocarakis’ in-house legal team supports the overall Theocarakis Group operations which include the importation and distribution of Nissan Motor vehicles and a vast array of related aftermarket consumer...

Vassilis Giannakopoulos is head of legal and member of the executive committee of NN Hellas, also reporting functionally to NN Group legal. The legal department consists of another five lawyers,...

Dual-based in Cyprus and Russia, the O1 Advisory legal team is part of the Russian O1 Properties Group, and as such deals with cross-border projects as a matter of course....

Olympia Group, through its eight subsidiaries, engages in retail, telecommunications, distribution of technology products, and manufacturing businesses in Greece and internationally. Founded by Panos Germanos, it is now an international...

Formerly a state-owned enterprise before being fully privatized in 2013, OPAP retains exclusive rights to organise lotteries and betting endeavours in Greece and Cyprus. This highly lucrative operation netted the...

Oracle is at the forefront of the world’s technological development with over 18,000 registered patents and employing 38,000 developers and engineers globally. Its legal team is equally high-profile, aiming to...

Operating in over 30 locations and jurisdictions means that OSM Maritime Group’s legal function is required to keep track of a highly complex workload in support of a truly global...

Leonidas Tolis leads Philip Morris International (PMI) affiliate Papastratos Cigarette Manufacturing Company’s EU South East cluster legal team, which boasts 12 lawyers across Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Cyprus and Malta....

Global wine and spirits behemoth Pernod Ricard operates an integrated and highly capable subsidiary in Greece under the name of Pernod Ricard Hellas. Its legal team continues the fantastic reputation...

Pharmathen was founded in 1969 as a private pharmaceutical company. In the past 50 years, the company has reached significant milestones and has emerged as one of the leading in-house...

Listed on the Athens Exchange, Piraeus Bank is one of the four systemic banks of Greece and subject to the supervision of the Single Supervisory Mechanism of the European Central...

Public Power Corporation (PPC) is the biggest power producer and electricity supply company in Greece with approximately 7.4 million customers. PPC currently holds assets in lignite mines, power generation, transmission...

Public Properties Company (ETAD) is a state-controlled corporate entity entrusted with the task of the management and exploitation of a large real estate portfolio which comprises more than 71,500 property...

Petr Zaytsev is the general counsel and corporate secretary of RCB Bank, having joined originally in October 2005. He has successfully built an in-house team of eight lawyers with diverse...

Seanergy Maritime Holdings is a Marshall Islands corporation with its executive offices located in Athens. The company is engaged in the transportation of dry bulk cargoes through the ownership and...

Skywind Group, founded in 2012, is a well-established global pioneer of cutting-edge games content and white label support and infrastructure. Skywind is made up of three main divisions; management systems,...

Founded in 1985, Space Hellas is a leading system integrator that offers a comprehensive range of integrated ICT and security solutions and services complemented by after-sales support. Headquartered in Athens,...

Urban Rail Transport was founded in June 2011, and incorporated three rail companies that had existed up to that point: AMEL (a metro system operator), ISAP (an urban railway), and...

Tania Chadouli leads the compact but highly capable in-house legal function of advanced battery and energy storage technology company Systems Sunlight, a company at the forefront of a complex and...

‘We are responsible both for the legal work undertaken at a global level as corporate lawyers and representing Tek Experts as a whole’, senior legal officer Evyenia Kelly Epaminondou says...

The Terna Energy legal team consists of four lawyers, the most senior of whom is Dimitra Hatziarseniou who heads the legal department. In chronological order of joining the group, the...

Organised across three departments devoted to property law and land acquisition, contracts and labour law and legislative and regulatory affairs teams, all sections being manned with both senior and junior...

Prioritising a decentralised structure attached directly to business units, the TITAN Cement Company legal team’s focus is on business support above all else; as such, it is thoroughly embedded with...

Legal officer Petros Papaevagorou describes how the Tototheo Maritime legal function is heavily influenced by its governance professionals, highlighting its business-focused approach: ‘The current legal function of the organisation is...

Founded in 1986, Toyota Hellas is a member of Inchcape, the global industry leader in the premium automotive distribution and retail sectors, and represents Toyota Motor Corporation products in Greece...

TrainOSE is a Greek railway company which currently operates all passenger and freight trains on OSE lines in the country. TrainOSE was acquired in September 2017 by the Italian national...

Unilever’s legal department is a small and agile team, comprising of three lawyers, Christina Vasilopoulou, who is general counsel, Kalliopi Georganda and Alexandra Moussatou. The territorial responsibility of the legal...

‘I like to think we are a small but mighty team’, says Upstream’s head of legal Eleni Stathaki, when discussing what makes the company’s three-person legal team worthy of recognition....

Vassiliko Cement Works Public Company offers port services and operates its own integrated clinker and cement plant and four quarries in Cyprus. The company runs a complex and well-established business...

Velti was founded in 2000 and is a leading provider of innovative mobile-centric marketing, customer retention and content based solutions trusted globally by hundreds of mobile operators, brands and media...

Led by head of legal Konstantina Schiza, who is capably supported by senior lawyer Stella Analyti, VICTUS Networks’ legal team oversees company litigation, compliance, risk management and corporate governance matters...

Vivartia’s Food Services Group legal team is led by head of legal Katerina Sefteli and also comprises of five other lawyers in Eleni Karveli, Georgia Adamopoulou, Eftyhia Mpri, Mania Shoina...

Vodafone Greece is a member of the Vodafone Group, one of the largest telecommunications groups in the world. Among mobile operator groups globally, Vodafone ranked fourth (behind China Mobile, Bharti...

‘WIND Hellas’ legal services function is considered nationwide as truly innovative in doing legal work and I’m personally proud that our work in WIND Hellas is being acknowledged as such’,...