Commercial Law
Resolving legal issues in the realm of commercial law and safeguarding the rights of each business or entrepreneur.
Commercial law is a branch of private law and regulates commercial relations and transactions, including the legal rules relating to commercial transactions. Key sectors in which our firm is actively involved are the law of commercial companies and businesses, the law of commercial contracts, and the law of trademarks and industrial property.
Areas of activity
Company and Business Law
Our law firm provides comprehensive legal support and offers legal advisory services on a wide number of company law issues, seeking to ensure the problem-free operation of its clients, be they partnerships, joint stock companies, civil law associations, shipping companies, joint ventures, etc., while also undertaking to represent clients before the courts in the case of disputes, and to defend their corporate interests.
We undertake to provide comprehensive legal support to our corporate clients from the time of incorporation, providing our legal services in the context of day-to-day operations, corporate decision-making, negotiations and implementation of investment objectives in general.
In particular we undertake:
- The establishment of all types of legal entity: general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, societes anonymes, private companies, civil associations, pleasure craft shipping companies, shipping companies, joint ventures, and so on.
- The establishment of subsidiaries of foreign companies and branches of foreign companies in Greece
- Amendments to the Articles of Association and conversion of companies to another corporate form
- Mergers and acquisitions of shares
- Resolution of intra-group and corporate management issues
- Representation of the company and legal support during general meetings or meetings of partners, Board of Directors meetings, business meetings and day-to-day operational support in general.
- Representation of the company in all manner of company disputes before courts or arbitrators (company actions, minority rights, withdrawal and exclusion of partners, etc.).
- Judicial appointment of a management team
- Winding up and liquidation of the company
Commercial Agreements
Our experienced legal team undertakes to prepare and review all types of commercial agreements, setting out the terms of collaboration between the parties and examining various issues relating to modern business practice.
Thanks to our knowledge and experience, we support B2B franchise agreements, whether supporting the franchisor's business development or meeting the franchisee's needs when acquiring the right to operate using the franchisor's brand name / trademark in accordance with the business plan.
Our vision encompasses helping promote the establishment of start-ups. This starts with coming up with an idea and ends with implementation of that idea; that necessarily includes a detailed business plan and, of course, finding sources of financing. In this stage, by bringing the parties into contact with Angels Investors (private investors who wish to invest in the business in exchange for acquiring shares, usually preference shares with voting rights or participation in the management of the company or dividends on profits combined with other privileges), an idea on paper can swiftly become a reality.
Against this backdrop, we provide comprehensive legal services primarily to safeguard the interests of the entrepreneur who is our principal and at the same time to ensure implementation of the collaboration agreement.
- Drafting of contract and interpretation of its terms
- Negotiations
- Amendment of contractual terms
- Legal protection in the event of termination of the contract
- Judicial protection - claims
- Legal handling of breach of contractual obligations
Trademark and Industrial Property Law
Thanks to our many years of experience in the field of trademarks and industrial property law, as a legal team we undertake to register your company's trademark at national, Community and international level, depending on your company's needs, in order for you as proprietor to protect your rights and to be able to exclude any potential third party competitor from using it. We first discuss the idea of the trademark to be registered in detail with you and then carry out a preliminary check to ascertain whether or not the trademark you want for your business is available. If there is a conflict with previous registered rights of third parties, we provide the necessary guidance so that your company's brand name can be properly registered.
- Legal advice and trademark pre-clearance
- Discussion of possible modifications to the trademark to ensure proper registration
- Filing of national/Community/international trademark
- Monitoring the progress of the application until final registration
- Submission of any objections
- Representation of the undertaking in the event of oppositions
- Renewal of trademark
- Licensing and transfer agreements
- Protection against infringement of an already registered trademark - Defending the rights of the proprietor
We also undertake to register patents, industrial designs, etc., providing comprehensive legal services to safeguard them and offering legal protection to the proprietor.