The Legal 500

Calavros and Partners has an excellent track record advising some of the largest clients in the pharmaceuticals, telecoms and media sectors on transactional and regulatory matters. Clients include OTE, Amiga Telephony Corporation and Cosmote.

Cocalis & Psarras is well known for its work in telecoms, and it recently advised Forthnet on its bid to acquire WIND Hellas. Dimitri Cocalis and Sorina Papadopoulou are well regarded.

Karatzas & Partners Law Firm advised the mobile phone operator WIND Hellas on its €1.8bn multi-jurisdictional restructuring. Anna Manda is recommended.

Koutalidis Law Firm has a well-regarded practice, particularly in the telecoms sector. It recently advised the lenders on the multibillion-euro restructuring of WIND Hellas. Other clients include Vodafone and Intracom.

Regulatory expert Augustine Almyroudi has a good practice at M & P Bernitsas Law Offices, which recently advised IDT Hellas on the regulatory framework and licensing requirements for its Greek activities. Other clients include OTE, RTL and WIND Hellas.

Sarantitis Law Firm enjoys an excellent reputation in the sports sector and represented the Greek Super League during TV rights contract negotiations, with the new deal worth €200m from 2011-2015. Other clients include Avon Products, Pokerstars, 888 Holdings, Microsoft and the Greek Internet Publishers’ Association. Yiannis Economakis heads this top-notch practice.

Spyridakis – Tsoukala Law Firm has a diverse practice that is extremely experienced in defamation and reputation management issues. It also kept busy with a regular flow of work from SKAI TV and SKAI Radio. Name partners John Spyridakis and Eleni Tsoukala jointly head the team.

A. & K. Metaxopoulos & Partners. Law Firm is very active in the TV and radio industry, and recently represented a major Greek radio station in a long-running dispute with two administrative authorities. Kriton Metaxopoulos heads the team.

Avramopoulos & Partners Law Firm is very active on the telecoms side for clients such as AT&T, and on the technology side for Sabre Hellas. It is particularly recommended for regulatory advice and has advised numerous clients on competition issues. Barbara Angelopoulou heads the group.

Ballas, Pelecanos & Associates LPC is recommended for transactional and regulatory work, particularly in the technology sector, where its clients include Microsoft. The group is backed up by a very strong IP practice.

Drakopoulos Law Firm acts for a mix of investors in the TMT sector as well as major corporations such as Vivodi Telcom and On Telecoms. Name partner Panagiotis Drakopoulos is ‘very experienced and gives sound, sophisticated and practical advice’.

Dryllerakis & Associates provides a mix of transactional and contentious advice to its TMT clients, which include IBM Hellas, Regency Entertainment and Nintendo.

KGDI Law Firm is well regarded for its regulatory and transactional advice and is backed up by a strong IP team.

Pistiolis – Triantafyllos & Associates Law Firm’s ‘unique and outstanding practice’ is ‘one of the best in the TMT area in Greece’. Theodore Pistiolis is ‘absolutely the kind of lawyer you always want on your side of the table’. The firm has an especially large following in the IT sector, with clients including Intracom, Encode and Hellas Online. Recently it successfully represented Atos Origin Hellas in a €1.5m dispute concerning software licence fees.

Politis & Partners represents an impressive array of clients in the IT and technology sector, including CSC and Mood Media. Group head Angeliki Saratsi is particularly experienced, having previously worked as general counsel at a major Greek IT company.

PotamitisVekris recently represented Microsoft in its software anti-piracy campaign. Other clients include Antenna TV and Pegasus Publications.

Reed Smith advises several life sciences multinationals on transactional and regulatory matters, and can leverage the firm’s excellent global practice. Anthony Poulopoulos is recommended.

Zepos & Yannopoulos has acted for media and entertainment clients including Al Jazeera, Endemol, Comcast and Twentieth Century Fox, as well as IT and telecoms clients such as Nokia and Apple.

Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners provides transactional and regulatory advice to Teotec, which is the telecoms and IT subsidiary of the Greek industrial conglomerate Theocharakis Group.

G. Mourgelas & Associates Law Firm is especially recommended for its expertise in the sports and advertising industries, and is adviser to the Hellenic Association of Communication Agencies. Fotini Minaki is very experienced on the sports side.

Lambadarios Law Firm is highly experienced in the entertainment and IT industries, and it regularly advises Sony Music as well as a leading US-based internet search engine.

Nikolinakos – Lardas & Associates Law Firm’s name partner Nikos Nikolinakos has a superb reputation for TMT matters, particularly on the regulatory side, having formerly been at Pistiolis – Triantafyllos & Associates Law Firm. Clients include Google, Verizon Business and Hellas Online.

Paraskevas Law Firm recently advised on the debt restructuring of a major telecoms company.

S.P. Economou & Associates Law Offices has solid experience in the telecoms sector, where clients include WIND Hellas.

V&P Law Firm often advises investors on regulatory and transactional issues regarding their investments in the TMT sector.