KLC Law Firm

Chairman: Prof Dr Aristides P Chiotellis

Managing Partner: Dr. Panagiotis Tzioumas

Number of partners: 15

Number of lawyers: 32

Languages: English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Russian

Firm Overview:

Founded in 2000, KLC Law Firm is a modern partnership originating from the merger of three well-established traditional law firms. Today, it is one of the top five law firms in Greece, with solid experience and in-depth expertise in all fields of practice. KLC’s name is linked with many landmark business deals and litigations in Greece and abroad. Apart from the multiple collaborations and connections with all major Magic and Silver Circle Law Firms, it has established and maintains close cooperation ties with top-calibre law firms and offices in and outside Europe.

Practice Areas:

Banking/Finance/Capital Markets

Commercial Contracts/Agreements

Corporate/Restructuring

Dispute Resolution/Litigation

Employment

Environmental/Urban Planning

European/Competition

Intellectual Property

Mergers & Acquisitions

Privatisations

Public Administration/Administrative Disputes

Public Contracts/Infrastructure

Real Estate/Construction

Tax

TMT Main Areas of Practice

Banking/Finance/Capital Markets:

KLC has extensive experience in international loans and financing of investors, as well as in loan portfolios and branches transfer deals, regulatory issues, innovative investment and financial products, corporate finance plans, consumer credit and sovereign debt issues.

Contact: Panagiotis Tzioumas

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Corporate/M&A:

KLC provides legal advice on all corporate law issues regarding the establishment, operation, dissolution and restructuring of legal entities. In addition, KLC has vast experience and in-depth expertise in M&A transactions and provides full legal support, whether at the buying or selling side, including identifying the optimum deal structure, organising and preparing the legal due diligence and drafting related reports, drafting and negotiating the transaction documents and monitoring the closing of the transaction.

Contact: Kostas Loukopoulos

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Peggi Zacharopoulou

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Dispute Resolution:

The strong dispute resolution practice of KLC equally comprises of pre-trial advice, advocacy and associated risk assessment, out-of-court settlement and representation before arbitral tribunals and courts at all levels.

Contact: Panagiotis Tzioumas

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Katerina Koutifari

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Kostas Loukopoulos

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Employment:

KLC provides full legal support on all matters relating to the outset, operation and termination of labour relations at an advisory level, as well as on legal representation in national and European courts, at both an individual and collective level. Contact: Stavros Andriopoulos

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Energy:

KLC’s strong experience spans across all segments of the energy industry and extends to a full range of activities from licensing and transactional work to dispute resolution and promulgation of energy legislation and negotiations with energy companies.

Contact: Alexandros Tsirigos

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

European Law/Competition:

KLC advises clients in all aspects of competition law, ex ante and ex post, and has extensive experience in handling relevant cases before the national authorities, the national courts and the European Commission and European Courts.

Contact: Vassilis Karagiannis

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Intellectual Property:

KLC provides services which cover the whole spectrum of IP law, namely trademarks, patents, industrial designs and utility models registrations at a national, European and international level, drafting/negotiating contracts and licensing agreements, as well as handling of litigation in relation to infringement of IP rights.

Contact: Professor Dr. Aristides P.Chiotellis

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Contact: Theodore Loukopoulos

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Privatisations:

KLC possesses valuable know-how in all types of privatisations in various sectors of the Greek economy and is able to provide top quality legal support in the course of multi-party negotiations and propose legally safe, business oriented and novel solutions on complex legal issues by applying out-of-the-box methods.

Contact: Theodore Loukopoulos

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Real Estate/Construction:

KLC possesses the necessary skills and know-how to provide across the board legal support legal support to its clients in every step of pursuing an investment in real estate property, whether contained in a town/city plan or not.

Contact: Theodora Xythali

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

Tax:

KLC provides tax advice in every sphere of business activity, on VAT, customs, excise legislation and on income and inheritance taxation.

Contact: Xenofon Papayiannis

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]

TMT:

KLC has extensive experience on issues of Greek and European legislation in telecommunications including electronic communication, data protection and security of telecommunications infrastructure ensuring confidentiality, and free competition in the area of telecommunications.

Contact: Vassilis Voutsakis

Tel: +30 210 7264500

Email: [email protected]