Areas of Expertise
Criminal Law
Our Law Office handles all criminal cases, as they are our main area of expertise. Due to our profound and long experience in criminal courts we handle not only the defence in court hearings of our clients but also their legal support during the preliminary phase of the procedure and the phase in all stages in all instances of jurisdiction. Each case is unique and for this reason we compose a team of experienced lawyers who take care of the criminal file in detail and they prepare the appearance before the court in a wide range of cases, including economic crimes and electronic crimes. In parallel, we handle cases for clients in the entire territory of Greece based on our cooperation with law office across Greece.
Public Law
Public contracts for supply and provision of services (composition of announcement, close attention to procurement and bids, proceeding and elaboration of contacts, dispute resolution). Public contracts for public works(composition of announcement, close attention to procurement and bids, proceeding and elaboration of contacts, dispute resolution).Contract for programmes and plans. Law of bodies of local governments, municipal authorities- elections procedures. Establishment and operation of public sector in a broad sense. Tax- public fiscal and budgetary law (administrative and criminal dimension).
Civil Law
Our Law office Stefanakis and Associates undertake cases of all branches of Civil Law and Family Law in cases of divorces, maintenance, alimony, communication and custody of children. Moreover, it performs various civil law cases of Property Law, Law of Contracts, and Torts, Law of Obligations and Law of Succession, lease cases and car accidents cases. The assistance of Lawyers of our office does not contain court appearances only, but also is advisory.
International and
European Law
Conflict of laws(private international law, recognition and execution of foreign judgments), European Law of Competition and State Aids(complaints in the European Commission, dispute resolution in institutions of the EU,) international arbitration(participation in arbitration proceedings of the ICC), law of international carriages, European trademarks and European patent licenses.
Commercial Law
Commercial companies and relations within the company and agreements, free and unfair competition cases, law of intellectual and industrial property, banking, securities and stock exchange law, bankruptcy law, procedure of transactions and reorganization, European law of state aids, national and European trademarks, trade contacts, legal check of companies Mass Media law and law of communication, law of energy and environmental law, laws for economic growth and financing of companies, transfer of ownership of enterprises(acquisitions, mergers, dividing, spin off), international contract terms of transactions and carriages contracts.
Relations with clients, provision of service
The clients of our Law Office are Greek and foreign companies(tobacco industries, banks, oil and gas companies, heavy industries entities, sports companies, companies providing leisure services, firms in the food and drinks industries, milk industries entities, companies for production and trading of energy, companies for press distribution construction companies, companies of raw materials, pharmaceutical companies, firms for dress and shoes, advertising companies, private clinics and centers for medical diagnosis, companies for production of goods for graphic and writing materials),public entities of local government, and of public sector, trade unions, associations and foundations.
The long experience of the founding members of our Law Office, in conjunction with our structure and organization, contributed to the establishment of a wide context of provision of services, which covers not only the appearances in the court for our clients, but also the provision of specialized advisory and opinion services, the participation in arbitration panels and courts under the capacity of the arbitrator of the third arbitrator, the participation in state and law-making commissions.