Andersen Legal, Greece – Pistiolis – Triantafyllos & Associates Law Firm

Managing Partners: Theodore Pistiolis, Anastasios Triantafyllos

Number of partners: 9

Number of lawyers: 25

Languages: English, Greek 

Firm Overview:  

Pistiolis – Triantafyllos & Associates - Andersen Legal is the Greek member firm of Andersen Global®. Andersen Legal in Greece, based in Athens, provides a full range of legal services for both corporations and individuals. Andersen Legal in Greece focus on delivering quality and value to its clients through innovative and practical legal solutions on business issues that matter. It has market leading and deep expertise in many industries including construction and real estate, energy, telecoms media and technology, health, public organisation, shipping, and commerce.

Main Areas of Practice:  

• Employment
• Commercial, Corporate &M&A
• Telecommunications, Media & Technology (TMT)
• Construction & Real Estate
• Tax
• Competition & Regulatory
• Banking, Finance & Capital Markets
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Fintech

Employment:  

3 partners, 6 fee earners

The employment team’s top-tier status is one of the premier offerings in Greece. The firm’s reputation for handling high-end employment mandates of extraordinary scope and complexity attracted new clients. The team has a combined total of over 75 years of experience in employment law, the majority of which is on high-end employment mandates. They are equally capable of contentious and non-contentious mandates.

• Advised a leading insurance company in Greece on EU and Greek employment law compliance matters related to its merger with another entity.
• Represented and defended a prominent energy company against various litigation cases involving allegations of unlawful dismissals.
• Advised a Greek subsidiary of a construction company during a collective (massive) dismissals procedure.

Contact: Paraskevas Zourntos, Partner

Email: [email protected]

TMT: 

2 partners, 5 fee earners

Premier services with rather few equals in Athens, recognized as such by a number of local and international clients. Strong transactional, regulatory and litigation foundations, enhanced by deep knowledge of the industry. Lawyers with outstanding in-house industry and government experience capable of providing innovative business-oriented counselling.

• Advised a leading company on regulatory, legal, business, and various aspects related to the Ultra-Fast Broadband Project. Successfully facilitated the negotiation and completion of the public tender process, culminating in the imminent signing of the concession agreement.
• Provided advisory services to a group of companies operating to the TMT industry, focusing on achieving compliance with the legal and regulatory framework in Greece. Successfully navigated and managed their interactions with the Greek Regulatory Authority, EETT.
• Advised all companies belonging to a leading group of companies in the construction area in respect of updating their GDPR compliance programs.

Contact: Dr Themistoklis Giannakopoulos, Partner

Email: [email protected]

Corporate, Commercial & M&A:  

2 partners, 14 fee earners

They cover the full range of legal services for clients ranging from multinationals to start-ups, operating in a wide spectrum of industries. They serve as general corporate counsel, representing their clients through the entire company lifecycle. They are equally proficient at corporate governance and transactions with first-class experience in M&A and joint ventures.

• Provided advisory services to a prominent real estate development company on the acquisition of equity in a large group of companies.
• Provided advisory services to a leading company operating in the food & beverage industry on the acquisition of a majority equity stake in another company
• Advised an energy company on acquisition of company licensed to operate a 24 MW wind park.

Contact: Theodore Pistiolis, Managing Partner

Email: [email protected]

Construction & Real Estate: 

2 partners, 3 fee earners

Real estate practice acts for some of the largest developers and real estate players in Greece. Firm’s lawyers superb previous in-house experience at some of the leading Greek real estate companies which include some of the leading infrastructure, residential and commercial mandates in the country.

• Participated in a joint venture with one of the world’s leading property agency worldwide successfully formed to secure a tender for the provision of advisory services with regards to more than 1500 real estate properties owned by one of the largest banking institute in Greece. The services include urban planning and licensing due diligence and evaluation of real estate properties to ensure their commercial use.
• Advised a Cyprus-based SPV-Real Estate company forthe acquisition of a 50.000 land property.

Contact: Vanita Kiriakouli, Partner

Email: [email protected]

Tax: 

2 partners, 4 fee earners

Tax law practice has substantial experience in both local and international taxation providing high quality legal advice at domestic and international clients alike on both inbound and outbound transactions with the aim of maximizing their tax efficiency and enhancing their tax position.

• Advised a Real Estate Fund on the most tax efficient way to purchase real estate property in Greece
• Developed a detailed Group transfer pricing strategy on behalf of a group of technology and IT services companies

Contact: Martha Papasotiriou, Partner

Email: [email protected]

Banking, Finance & Capital Markets 

1 partner, 2 fee earners

Premier legal & regulatory advice on Investment Banking, Private Banking, Compliance, Asset Management and Custody issues, manage legal and compliance risks and matters for clients, consults on the negotiation of bespoke complex contractual documentation and international contracts in the banking sector both in Greece and abroad.

• Advised an credit insurance company on the full Surety Insurance Client cycle from the initial project development to financing, thus covering the documentation and legal multi-sectoral transactional aspects of all Surety Projects with its clients up to the execution of the bond guarantees.

Contact: Katerina Simopoulou, Partner

Email: [email protected]