Practice Areas
White-Collar Crime & Investigations
Overview
Our white-collar crime and investigations practice advises companies, directors, officers, shareholders, senior executives and private clients on sensitive criminal, regulatory and enforcement matters arising in the Greek business environment.
We represent clients in investigations and proceedings involving fraud, breach of trust, embezzlement, tax offences, customs offences, money laundering, bribery and corruption, market abuse, financial crime and other criminal allegations connected to corporate, tax, regulatory or commercial activity. We appear before the Greek investigative and criminal courts, appellate courts and the Supreme Court.
Many of our matters involve parallel civil, tax, regulatory, employment or corporate proceedings. We coordinate the criminal defence strategy with the wider legal and commercial context, including evidence handling, privilege, reporting obligations, asset-freezing measures, reputational risk and engagement with Greek enforcement and supervisory authorities.We also advise companies, boards, audit committees and senior management on internal investigations and regulatory response. This includes fact-finding, evidence review, witness preparation, engagement with Greek enforcement and supervisory authorities, remediation planning and advice on disclosure or reporting obligations where misconduct, fraud, corruption, accounting irregularities or compliance failures are identified.
Where matters have a cross-border dimension, including parallel proceedings, extradition issues, mutual legal assistance requests or conduct that may engage foreign anti-bribery, sanctions or enforcement regimes, we coordinate with international counsel through our trusted network of firms across Europe and beyond.
Services
We defend individuals and companies in investigations and prosecutions before the Greek investigative, criminal and appellate courts. Our work covers alleged fraud, breach of trust, embezzlement, bribery and corruption, market manipulation, money laundering, tax offences and other criminal allegations arising from business activity.
We advise companies, taxpayers, directors, officers and shareholders on criminal tax and customs proceedings, VAT fraud allegations, fictitious invoices, non-payment of assessed liabilities, financial crime claims and related defence strategy. These matters often arise alongside tax audits, administrative appeals, enforcement measures or parallel civil claims.
We support boards, audit committees, general counsel and senior management in internal investigations into suspected fraud, corruption, accounting irregularities, employee misconduct, conflicts of interest and compliance failures. Our work includes investigation planning, document and evidence review, interviews, reporting, remediation and follow-through.
We advise on anti-money laundering, sanctions and regulatory enforcement matters, including interaction with the Hellenic Anti-Money Laundering Authority, the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, the Bank of Greece and other Greek supervisory authorities. Our work includes reporting obligations, administrative sanctions, governance failures and related criminal exposure.
We act in asset-freezing, seizure and confiscation proceedings arising from criminal, tax, customs and anti-money laundering investigations. Our work includes challenges to provisional measures, asset protection, coordination with parallel proceedings and enforcement-sensitive litigation strategy.
We coordinate Greek-law advice in cross-border investigations and proceedings involving parallel foreign investigations, extradition requests, mutual legal assistance, foreign anti-bribery regimes, sanctions exposure or international enforcement risk. We work with foreign counsel where Greek individuals, companies, assets, evidence or proceedings form part of a wider international matter.
Featured Work
- Defended the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi and its senior clergy in the criminal proceedings arising from the Vatopedi land-exchange affair — the highest-profile criminal case in modern Greek political history. Secured full acquittal of all defendants before the Three-Member Criminal Court of Appeals.