Kyriakides Georgopoulos Law Firm

Managing Partners: John C. Kyriakides (Managing Partner)

Senior Partner: Gus J. Papamichalopoulos (Chairman), Konstantinos Gr. Vouterakos (Member)

Number of partners: 18

Number of lawyers: 110

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

Firm Overview:

• KG Law Firm is Greece’s largest multidisciplinary law firm and covers the needs of its clients in all fields of legal practice. KG has offices in Athens and Thessaloniki, and is a member of South East Europe Legal Group (www.seelegal.org), a group of ten leading independent law firms covering 12 jurisdictions in South East Europe.

Main Areas of Practice:

• Art
• Agency, Distribution & Franchising
• Banking & Finance/Capital Markets
• Competition/Antitrust
• Corporate/Commercial, M&A
• Data Protection and Privacy
• Employment & Labour
• Energy, Natural Resources & Utilities
• Industrial & Intellectual Property
• Insurance
• Litigation & Arbitration
• Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences
• Environmental Public Sector
• Projects Public Tenders
• Real Estate Development, Leasing
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Tax
• Telecommunications & Media

Banking & Finance/Capital Markets:

4 partners; 14 fee earners

KG’s banking and finance team advises lenders, arrangers, underwriters and issuers in all activities related to the Greek market, such as bond issuances, project and shipping finance, securitisations, IPOs/ SPOs, private placements, public offers of debt and equity and tender offers.

Contact: Konstantinos Gr. Vouterakos

Tel: +30 210 817 1581

Email: [email protected]

Corporate/Commercial & M&A:

5 partners; 15 fee earners

KG’s corporate and commercial practice covers a large range of transactional and advisory work, regularly advising the Greek government on corporate law reform. The M&A team is valued for its efficient management of complex and intensive projects, and assists clients in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of M&A transactions of all types and sizes. The team’s experience covers business sectors which include energy, mining, manufacturing, food and beverages, telecommunications, health care and banking and finance institutions.

Contact: Claire Pavlou

Tel: +30 210 817 1550

Email: [email protected]

Competition/Antitrust:

2 partner; 5 fee earners

KG is recognised for its leading competition practice, having acted in some of the most high profile antitrust cases. The team’s services include cutting-edge advice on matters relating to cartels, anti-competitive vertical conduct and abuse of market power, merger control, state aid/public procurement and competition litigation.

Contact: Anastasia Dritsa

Tel: +30 210 8171560

Email: [email protected]

Employment & Labour:

1 partner; 4 fee earners

KG’s employment law team participates in projects involving global legal compliance in labour, social security and data protection law issues. The team is recognised for top quality service, in-depth legal support, management orientated and beneficialfocused solutions, responsiveness and dedication. Clients value its proactive approach and inventive legal structures in complex cases.

Contact: Ioanna Kyriazi

Tel: +30 210 817 1574

Email: [email protected]

Energy, Utilities & Infrastructure:

3 partners; 9 fee earners

KG’s energy practice is best known for being one of the only practice groups dedicated to engage exclusively in energy related projects, covering all aspects of the energy sector: regulatory, M&A, project finance and project related contracts. The team has decades of experience and is acknowledged as one of the foremost firms in the oil and gas sector, representing both international and domestic investors in the Greek oil and gas industry. Additionally, the team is active in the electricity and renewable energy sectors.

Contact: Gus J. Papamichalopoulos

Tel: +30 210 8171570

Email: [email protected]

Industrial & Intellectual Property:

1 partner; 2 fee earners

KG’s IP team advises clients on the registration of trademarks, designs, patents and domain names, it conducts searches for conflicts, handles the preparation and filing of applications and has an excellent track record in IP litigation cases. The firm undertakes passing off and unfair competition cases. It also offers support on copyright, trade secrets and confidentiality issues and on agreements on the assignment and licensing of all IP rights.

Contact: Irene Kyriakides

Tel: +30 210 817 1591

Email: [email protected]

Litigation & Arbitration:

3 partners; 14 fee earners

KG’s dispute resolution team undertakes complex litigation cases, international arbitrations as well as white collar criminal cases. The team’s expertise ranges from everyday civil disputes before the First Instance Courts of Greece up to complex cases before the Greek Supreme Court. Conflict of laws, jurisdiction matters, commercial disputes, product liability claims and claims following termination of agency/distribution/franchising agreements are also some of the areas of the team’s special expertise.

Contact: John C. Kyriakides

Tel: +30 210 817 1534

Email: [email protected]

Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences:

2 partner; 3 fee earners

The experience of KG’s pharmaceutical law team extends to all legal matters related to pharmaceutical products, medical devices, cosmetics, vaccines and veterinary products. Advice is given in relation to healthcare contracts, grants and donations, promotion and distribution issues, clinical trials, pharmacovigilance, data protection and pricing issues. The team assists clients in developing, implementing and monitoring compliance programs and supply policies and represents them in contracts disputes, collections, infringement of IP rights, distribution agreements and more.

Contact: Irene Kyriakides

Tel: +30 210 817 1591

Email: [email protected]

Restructuring & Insolvency:

3 partners; 6 fee earners

KG’s restructuring and insolvency team acts for both financial institutions, large exporters and investors in restructuring issues following official restructuring proceedings under the insolvency laws or in negotiating deals between creditors and entities in distress.

Contact: Konstantinos Issaias

Tel: +30 210 817 1507

Email: [email protected]

Tax:

1 partner; 6 fee earners

KG claims a place amongst established international tax law firms and small tax boutique law firms, with the capacity to support client needs ranging from complicated transactions, which demand the pooling of larger resources, to tax litigation of all administrative levels, and to proactively provide clients with intelligence on the continuous and sudden changes in taxation.

Contact: Panagiotis Pothos

Tel: +30 210 817 1593

Email: [email protected]