Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution
Overview
Dispute resolution is one of the firm’s foundational practices. We represent Greek and international clients in high-stakes disputes before the Greek civil, commercial and administrative courts, including proceedings before the Supreme Court and the Council of State, as well as in domestic and international arbitration, enforcement proceedings and urgent interim relief.
Our practice covers the full range of business-critical disputes in Greece: commercial and contractual claims, shareholder and corporate disputes, banking and securities litigation, real estate and construction disputes, distribution and franchise disputes, tax and administrative litigation, public law challenges, professional liability, enforcement proceedings and disputes arising in regulated sectors.
Clients turn to us where the outcome matters: when a commercial relationship has broken down, a transaction has turned contentious, public law risk threatens a project, an asset needs to be protected, or a claim must be pursued or resisted with precision. We prepare cases to win, but we do not litigate reflexively. Strategy, evidence, procedural timing, settlement leverage and commercial context are treated as one connected exercise.
Many of our matters have a cross-border dimension. We work with foreign counsel on parallel proceedings, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in Greece, asset recovery, interim measures and dispute strategies involving Greek counterparties, assets or proceedings.
We also recognise that not every dispute is best resolved through full-scale litigation. Where mediation, negotiation or another form of alternative dispute resolution can protect value, reduce risk or preserve a commercial relationship, we use it deliberately and from a position of strength. Our role is to protect the client’s position with force, discipline and judgment, whether that requires pressure, speed, settlement or a decisive court or arbitral outcome.
Services
We act in complex commercial, corporate and civil disputes before the Greek courts, including breach-of-contract claims, shareholder disputes, director and officer liability, professional liability, distribution and franchise disputes, real estate disputes, construction claims and high-value enforcement proceedings. We manage cases from pre-action strategy and interim measures through trial, appeal and Supreme Court review where required.
We represent clients in administrative litigation, public law disputes and tax-related proceedings before the competent Greek courts and authorities, including cases involving public contracts, concessions, permits, regulatory decisions, tax assessments and state-related measures. This work is particularly important for clients active in infrastructure, energy, real estate, hospitality, public procurement and regulated industries.
We represent parties in domestic and international arbitration under Greek law and leading institutional rules, including ICC, LCIA and UNCITRAL. We also advise on mediation, negotiated settlements and other forms of alternative dispute resolution, with a focus on preserving leverage, managing risk and securing outcomes that are enforceable in practice, not just satisfying on paper.
We act on disputes arising from financings, bond issuances, derivatives, investment services, securities transactions, enforcement actions and related regulatory issues. Our clients include banks, institutional investors, corporate borrowers, issuers and market participants before the Greek courts and, where relevant, in proceedings involving Greek financial regulators.
We advise on recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in Greece, including under the New York Convention, EU enforcement frameworks and Greek private international law. We also handle asset tracing, interim measures, preservation orders and coordinated recovery strategies where Greek assets, counterparties or proceedings form part of a wider international dispute.
Where disputes involve fraud allegations, internal misconduct, regulatory exposure or potential criminal liability, we work with our white-collar crime and investigations team to coordinate the civil, regulatory and criminal dimensions of the matter. This ensures that litigation strategy, evidence handling, privilege, reporting obligations and reputational risk are managed together rather than in isolation.
Featured Work
- Representing Hellenic Train S.A. in complex rail-sector arbitration on long-running disputes connected with the Greek railway network.
- Represented ELFE S.A. in antitrust and unfair competition proceedings against DEPA S.A., including proceedings before the Supreme Court, in a significant competition and commercial dispute in the Greek energy sector.
- Represented ELFE S.A. in abuse-of-dominance litigation against PPC S.A. in the industrial electricity market.
- Represented Sportingbet plc before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Joined Cases C-186/11 and C-209/11, following a preliminary reference from the Greek Council of State — a landmark ruling that found OPAP’s exclusive gambling monopoly incompatible with EU free-movement principles and reshaped the Greek betting market.
- Represented the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopedi across civil and criminal proceedings arising from the Vatopedi land-exchange affair, one of the highest-profile cases in modern Greek political history, securing full acquittal of all defendants and successful defence of civil claims.
- Acted for JNL+ Group of Companies in highly complex litigation with a Greek state entity (OPE).
- Represented clients in the Athens Paper Mill and Bank of Central Greece privatisation proceedings before both Greek national courts and EU courts.
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