Sofos & Partners

SOFOS & PARTNERS, Athens

Managing Partner

• Professional activity: Litigation in substantive and appellate courts (see instead of many AP 735/2019), International Arbitration (2020 JAMS NEW YORK ARBITRATION COURT)

SOFOS & PARTNERS LAW FIRM est @1955

in association with Marino/Finley (www.marinofinley.com)

Managing Partner

Themistoklis Sofos, PhD

Date of birth: 05 July 1970

Father's name: Ioannis Them. Sofos, Mother’s name: Maria I. Sofou

Lawyer, Litigation & International Arbitration, Doctor of Law, University of Bonn, Secretary General of the Institute of European and International Criminal Law, ex Vice President of the Athens Bar Association

License to practice law: 28.06.1995

Languages: English (Excellent knowledge), German (Excellent knowledge)

Marital status: Married with three children

Address: 6 – 8, Asklepioustr, Athens, GR 10680

Phone: +302103633322, +302103636379, +302103642339, +306944838029 Email: [email protected]     http://www.sofos.com.gr

English, German

• January 1993: Law Degree from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens
• September 1994 - September 1995: Postgraduate Department of Criminal Sciences, University of Bonn, Germany (MAGNA CUM LAUDE Degree)
• September 1995 - January 1998: Doctoral Dissertation in the Department of Criminal Sciences of the University of Bonn, Professors Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Puppe, Prof. Dr.Urs Kindhäuser, Prof. Dr. Günther Jakobs on "MULTIPLE CAUSE IN ACTION AND OMISSION" ("Mehrfachkausalität beim Tun und Unterlassen") (MAGNA CUM LAUDE)
• 1995: Seminar Paper in the Department of Criminal Science, University of Bonn: The Concept of Deception in Fraud (Grade Excellent)
• 1996: Seminar Paper in the Department of Criminology, University of Bonn: War Crimes and International Reactions with Particular Reference to the United Nations Security Council (Grade Excellent)
• 1997: Seminar Paper in the Department of Criminal Sciences of the University of Bonn: Cause and effect in Criminal Law (Grade Excellent)
• January 1998: Doctorate of the University of Bonn
• September 1998: Spontaneous translation from German of lectures by Professor Ingeborg Puppe in the Department of Criminal Sciences of the University of Athens, Thessaloniki and Komotini
• 1998: Publication of a translation of Professor Ingeborg Puppe's article "material error", Journal Defense 1998, 1009
• 2001: Publication of the Criminal Case of Foreign Courts in the Journal Penal Speech 2001, 291, 714-719
• 2002: Publication of a study on "Causation for an offense due to unconscious negligence", in Volume 1 (1) of the Hellenic Society for Legal, Philosophical and Legal History, edited by I. Stragga / I. Gravari / Ant.Hanos), Publisher Bag, Nomos, L’Hartman, p. 237
• 2003: Publication in the series CRIMINAL (ANTI-CRIMINAL POLICY III) under the supervision of Professor N. Kourakis on "Legal causation in the context of anti-crime policy"
• 2004: Publication of a study on "Freedom of Special Knowledge and Attribution", in Volume of Works (3), 2004, p. 599
• 2005: Systematic Interpretation of the Penal Code, General Part, and special commentary on articles 28 (Negligence) and 29 (Crimes distinguished from the result), pages 348 to 458, under the supervision of professors D. Spinellis, N. Androulakis, G.-A. Magakis, I. Manoledakis, K. Stamati, A. Psarouda-Benaki
• 2007: Publication of an article in the magazine Penal Speech on: "The procedural function of expertise in the case of cybercrime", Issue 2/2007
• 2008: Monograph on "Dolus Eventualis and Negligence. The evaluative relation of classification of the two forms of the tort", Monograph Ed. Ant. Bag, 2008
• 2009: Study in the Honorary Volume of Anna Psaroudas - Benaki, 2009 on "From the causal to the finalist theory of action", p. 569
• 2010: Study in the Honorary Volume of Argirios Karras (2010) on "Detachment of the ministerial criminal responsibility from the Parliament", p. 171
• 2010: "Critical review of Welzel's theory of action as intentional action", in Volume Proceedings (4), 2010, p. 731
• 2010: Publication of a Translation of an article by Professor Ingeborg Puppe "Conceptual forms of possible deceit" in an Honorary Volume I. Manoledaki
• 2010: "The lack of direct power to exercise a right as a condition for the substantiation of tort on the act of extortion (art. 385 of the Penal Code)", CRIMINAL CHRONICLES (PC) X, 362 et seq. 2010
• 2010: "The necessity of punishment as a means of social protection ", in Volume 1 (5), Ed. Bag, Nomos, L’Hartman, 2010
• 2011: Book "GUILTY WITHOUT GOOD", (Interpretation of terms of the Law on money laundering with the help of the Theory of Rules), (2011, Law & Economy, PN SAKKOULAS)
• 2012: SPECIAL CRIMINAL LAWS, Money Laundering I, Introductory Remarks and No. 1 - 5 L. 3691/2008, TH. SOFOS, Law & Economy, P.N. SΑΚΚΟULΑS
• 2012: SPECIAL CRIMINAL LAWS, Money Laundering II, No. 6 - 7C, 45 - 52 Law 3691/2008, TH. SOFOS, Law & Economy, P.N. SΑΚΚΟULΑS,
• 2013: Written intervention at the 6th Conference of the Association of Greek Criminologists, May 31st and June 1st, 2013 ("Aristotelis Onassis" Central Hall of the House of Letters and Arts, 107 Syggrou Ave. and extortion),
• 2014: "Reasoning of a criminal court decision and incorrect interpretation or application of a substantive criminal provision", in Volume Acts (6B), p. 1241
• 2014: "Confluence of laws in Criminal Law", in volume "Conflict, hostility and law", Volume Acts (7B), 2014, p. 1369
• 2015: "Medical technology equipment and informed consent", Presentation at the 6th Panhellenic Conference on Biomedical Technology
• 2016: "Instigation to tax evasion and tax avoidance", Article in the Honorary Volume of Christoforos Argyropoulos, 2016
• 2016: "Negligence in Criminal Law", re-editing of the book Alexandros Katsantonis "Negligence in criminal law", 1963, NOMORAMA.ND Publications
• 2016: Editing the CRIMINAL CODE AND CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, after law 4356/2015, Government Gazette A 181, with a foreword by Them. Sofos, NOMORAMA Publications NT
• 2017: «Act of duty and Law», in Edition Ioannis Straggas, NOMOS SAKKOULAS PUBLICATIONS (In cooperation with Antonello Calore, Photios Katzouros, Jens Petersen, Otto Pfersmann, herausgegeben Dimitris Chacha), p. 231
• 2017: Presentation at the 8th Panhellenic Conference of the Hellenic Lawyers Association (Ε.Ε.Ν. e-Themis, 18/3/2017) on "Criminal evaluation of the ratification process of a business consolidation agreement"
• 2017: Presentation at the Panhellenic Conference of the Medical Association of Piraeus and the Hellenic Society of Emergency Medicine on "The pre-investigation procedure at the Emergency Department", organized at the General Hospital of Nikaia Piraeus
• 2018: Foreign language publication of an article on "Informed consent by the treating health care provider", in Volume: PATERNALISM AND CRIMINAL LAW - MODERN PROBLEMS OF AN OLD QUERY, Sakkoulas / Nomos Publications, 2018, 224 pages (together with V. Christou , N. Courakis, G. Giannoulis, J. Gkountis, F. Herzog, K. Kalliris, S. Mitas, Ch. Papacharalambous, V. Polyzoidou, T. Sofos)
• 2018:"Protected witnesses and ECHR", NomikoVima 2018, p. 421
• 2018: "Conflict of jurisdiction in European law and forum shopping", Nomiko Vima 2018, p. 1597
• 2019: "Violation of rules for diligent management in the act of breach of trust according to the new Criminal Code", Nomiko Vima 2019, p. 1585 ff.
• 2019: Book review in the "Dictionary of Criminology" (Editors Kalliopi D. Spinelli, Nestor Kourakis, Maria P. Karnidioti), LEGAL STEP 2019, p. 923
• 2019: Lecture at the Society of Greek Writers on "Law and Ethics" (2/4/2019), Gennadiou 8, Athens
• 2020: SPECIAL CRIMINAL LAWS, Money Laundering II, Introductory Remarks, No. 1 - 4 Law 4557/2018, TH. SOFOS / A. OIKONOMOU, Law & Economy, P.N. Sakkoulas
• 2020: SPECIAL CRIMINAL LAWS, Money Laundering II, no. 5, 39-42, 47-50 Law 4557/2018, TH. SOFOS / A. OIKONOMOU, Law & Economy, P.N. Sakkoulas
• 2020: "Constitutional guarantee of the exercise of the right to vote", 16/10/2020 Article in the newspaper "KATHIMERINI"
• 2001-2010: Member of the Editorial Committee of the magazine CRIMINAL SPEECH
• 1999-present: Permanent Participation in the Conferences of the Criminal Law Society, of which he is a member
• 1999-present: Permanent Participation in the Conferences of the Association of Greek Criminologists, of which he is a member
• 2015-present: Permanent Participation in the Institute of European and International Criminal Law, of which he is General Secretary
• 2015-today: Teaching in weekly seminars of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure for Lawyers at the Athens Bar Association (the last one is already being held in the current academic year)

• Military obligations: September 1992 - June 1994: Military service in the Greek Air Force (Capacity Level I 1), Basic Training at the Tripoli Training Center, transfer to the 116th Battle Wing with specialization in facility maintenance (Installation Maintenance Squadron)

• Personal: Piano, Theory of Music, Theatre