Margaropoulos & Associates – Scientia Legis Law Firm

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Margaropoulos & Associates – Scientia Legis Law Firm has offices both in Athens and Thessaloniki. Our team avails of a network of 52 Law Offices in Greece.

Our law firm provides complete legal support to a large number of corporate clients, Greek and foreign, of various corporate forms and object of activities. We are honored to have earned the confidence of some of Greece’s most demanding clients, individuals and corporate, in most cases with relationships that extend over many years.

We offer our international clients access to the Greek legal and business environment while enjoying a familiar high standard level of professionalism, expertise, service and diligence they expect from counsel in their home countries. Furthermore, through our membership with Interlegal, we offer our Greek clients the benefits of continued legal representation on the international plane as well.

Among our clients are, indicatively, companies in the fields of consumer goods manufacturing; real estate investment and development (including shipyards, marinas and malls), food production, marina management, hotel management, financial services, trading (from entertainment and educational software to telecommunications and power support equipment, pharmaceuticals, commodities, such as cotton, coffee, marble, aluminum etc), cotton ginning, textile and denim products, investment funds, Greek and foreign public and private educational and cultural institutions; trusts, foreign diplomatic missions etc. Several of our clients are listed in the Greek and foreign stock exchange markets.

For these and other clients, our firm has repeatedly performed merger, joint venture, and buyout transactions; corporate restructuring; financing transactions; public tenders; real estate transactions (for office, hotel, shopping centre, entertainment, residential and mixed use properties); mediation for conflict resolution; negotiations; drafting of a diverse range of agreements; legal due diligence on prospective takeover targets, and various other matters of common or extraordinary operation.

Our litigation department serves an important complementary role in the operation of our firm. The practice encompasses all civil and commercial litigation matters, appurtenant to its representation of corporate clients or not, indicatively including:

• Representation of clients in civil litigation, in courts throughout Greece, including assessment of claims and development of strategy, pretrial motions and discovery, injunction measures etc;
• Representation of clients in arbitration, mediation and other alternative dispute resolution procedures;
• Development of strategies to resolve complex litigation disputes such as those involving multiple claims and parties, multiple jurisdictions, and parallel regulatory, civil and criminal proceedings;
• Advice on business decisions and plans that pose litigation risks.

In addition, to better serve our clients in Greece, we offer in-house notarial services.

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