P&Papapolitis is sponsoring the GC Summit: Greece 2025 for yet another year. This flagship event, organized by Legal 500, will take place in Athens, on June 19, 2025, bringing together Greece’s top in-house legal minds for a day of insightful discussions and valuable networking. This year, we’re honored to host a must-attend panel: “Employment Challenges in the Business Environment.”
Introduction With the enactment of Law 5202/2025 (Government Gazette A’ 84/23.05.2025), entered into force on 23 May 2025, Greece introduced a regulatory framework for the screening of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), likely to affect security or public order, in alignment with Regulation (EU) 2019/452—five years after its adoption. The primary objective of this legislative initiative
We had the pleasure of opening the doors to P&P office and welcoming a group of bright and ambitious law students from ELSA Greece as part of the Lawyers@Work initiative. During their visit, the students gained valuable insights into the inner workings of our firm and learned from our lawyers, about tackling strategic and complex
The Challenges of Greece’s Judicial System It is widely known that the state of the Courts and the administration of justice in Greece has been severely criticized and is admittedly far from optimal. The phenomenon is not a current one, nor is it exclusively Greek. Unfortunately, however, in our country, especially in recent years, the
We are proud to have advised ΕVROPI HOLDINGS S.A. on the successful acquisition of 100% of Europa Insurance, following the successful closing for the remaining 35% stake for a consideration of €16.55M. This marks a major milestone in the company’s strategy to build a modern and dynamic Greek insurance group and reinforces its presence in the
The Women on Boards Directive has recently been transposed into Greek legislation through the highly anticipated Law 5178/2025, effective from February 14 2025. The aim is to ensure a more balanced representation of women and men among the directors of – primarily – listed companies by establishing effective measures to accelerate progress towards gender
The EU Listing Act package forms part of the broader deliberations on the Capital Markets Union, the core aim of which is to improve access to market-based financing for EU companies at each stage of their development. The package was published in the EU Official Journal on November 14, 2024, following its approval by the
Law 5123/2024 introduces the Single Electronic Pledges Registry, aiming to simplify and modernize the procedure of pledges establishment on shares and other corporate holdings. The modernization of the pledges establishment procedure on registered shares and other corporate holdings, being a primary means of credit security, is pursued to be achieved through the new law 5123/2024.
P&P Advises EVROPI HOLDINGS S.A. on its €68.3M Capital Increase We are proud to have served as legal counsel to EVROPI HOLDINGS S.A. in connection with its €68.3 million share capital increase and the issuance of 56,948,627 new common, dematerialized, registered voting shares, each with a nominal value of €0.26, to be listed on ATHEX. The P&P team was
We are proud to have advised DEPA Commercial S.A., the public gas corporation, on a transformative €600 million project to develop a cutting-edge 792 MW natural gas-fired power plant in Larissa—one of the largest energy investments in Greece. DEPA’s partners in this mega project are the companies Clavenia Ltd, EUSIF Larissa S.A.,and Volton S.A., all of which will jointly participate in
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