ABLAW - Patriarchou Ioakim

ABLAW (Athens Business Lawyers – registered with the Athens Bar Association as “Hadjiemmanuil, Kouloridas, Tountopoulos Dikigoriki Etairia”) specializes in corporate, financial, regulatory and commercial law. The founding partners are all acknowledged experts in the field. Three of them hold academic posts in directly related areas. The firm was established recently (2011) as a legal vehicle, but is based on a long record of close cooperation between the founding partners. Although significantly smaller than its major competitors, it brings together recognized academic excellence with business sense and extensive practical experience. On this basis, ABLAW has the capacity to represent private clients as well as institutions and professional associations and to provide advice in very complex legal and regulatory matters, bringing new ideas to bear and challenging the conventional approach when required. The academic partners also stand ready to provide individually legal opinions on their respective areas of expertise.

We able to provide legal support to any enterprise doing business in Greece, including in relation to its company set-up and operation, commercial transactions, financing arrangements, administrative obligations and relationships with state and local authorities and capital market regulatory compliance. Athens Business Lawyers approaches its clients’ legal issues always within the wider framework of their strategic, business and financial goals. The firm focuses on matters that require the attention, experience, expertise and reputation of its partners. In order to provide such partner-intensive service, it generally does not handle routine matters and operates with a ratio of partners and senior counsels to associates far above that of our major competitors.

Through a tight, highly selective network of counsels and associates, including a number of well-known academic specialists in the Universities of Athens and London and practicing experts, the firm can also provide highly specialized support in the areas of intellectual property, international and national arbitration and dispute resolution, public contracting and construction works, taxation and business-related criminal law.

Work is conducted in Greek, English, French and German.

The list of past and present clients includes credit institutions, investment companies and collective investment schemes (including alternative investment vehicles), listed companies and groups in various sectors of the real economy (pharmaceuticals, gaming, international trade, metals, recycling and waste management, construction, postal services, energy and coastal shipping), as well as bodies such as the Association of Listed Companies, the Association of Members of the Stock Exchange, the Athens Exchange and various other associations, seeking advice on regulatory and legislative issues in the partners’ various fields of expertise.