Drakopoulos Law Firm provides practical and professional advice and assistance on contractual issues, drafting and negotiating all types of agreements covering most business activities.

The Firm boasts an experienced team in this area, while the list of commercial contracts drafted and negotiated is extensive and high-profiled.

We provide advice on agreements for sale and purchase of goods, supply of services, standard contractual terms, IT (software and hardware) and telecommunications, outsourcing, franchising, advertising, marketing, agency, distributorship, supply, manufacturing, intellectual property, sponsorship and other agreements. We firmly believe in ensuring transactional safety and security for our clients, thus minimizing litigation risks and potential disruption of our clients’ goals.

We act as general counsel for businesses, representing them in all aspects of corporate life, from establishment and daily operation throughout their corporate development.

The Firm is active in advising in the context of domestic and cross-border corporate transactions and joint ventures, as well as proactively consulting businesses on their relationships with domestic and international customers, suppliers, agents and distributors.

The Firm's corporate lawyers provide counselling not only to domestic corporations in the countries where we operate but also to multinationals on matters related to local and international transactions, establishment of subsidiaries, partners/shareholders relationships, etc.

We provide a wide range of tax consulting services, reflecting the Firm’s corporate and entrepreneurial client base. We also advise in relation to structuring and executing complex transactions and overall tax planning. Work undertaken includes advising on domestic and cross-border joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, capital restructuring and major real estate property transactions.

The Firm provides advice on all legal and practical issues arising out of employment. We represent clients on labour and employment issues in litigation, arbitration and administrative hearings.

The Firm’s labour law team aims at providing practical solutions to clients’ queries and resolving issues before problems actually arise at court. <.p>

Our Firm’s employment practice acts on both contentious and non-contentious matters, and advises on related tax, corporate and regulatory employment related issues. The Firm prides of its contentious experience including claims for breach of contract, unfair dismissal, discrimination and equal pay, as well as its extensive experience in drafting employment contracts between companies and senior executives, international assignments and data protection regulatory compliance.

Our Firm’s lawyers are highly experienced in EU & Competition Law, handling a wide variety of commercial agreements, anti-trust enquiries and compliance programmes, including both private and public sector competitive concerns.

The Firm advises clients on a wide spectrum of matters related to the application of EU law, most particularly on banking directives and overall financial services, public procurement and EU competition law.

We place particular emphasis on economic analysis, offering knowledge and experience to clients faced with potential investigations or seeking redress against anti-competitive practices, both before the Competition Regulatory Authorities and Courts in national jurisdictions and the European Commission and the Court of Justice alike.

Drakopoulos Law Firm has extensive experience on matters related to Industrial and Intellectual Property Law. The areas where the firm is active include patents, trade marks, domain names, copyright, design rights, database rights, data protection and confidential information.

The Firm advises clients on identifying, registering and protecting their intellectual property rights, particularly when acquiring or licensing such rights, nationally or worldwide. Our IP team provides value added services in this field in the context of a wide range of transactions including mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs and joint ventures, involving due diligence investigations, IP audits and compliance exercises.

The Firm regularly provides expert advice to businesses on structuring and completing domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy¬outs, joint ventures and equity investments as well as in notifying such transactions to the relevant regulatory agencies for administrative clearance.

Our M&A team devises deal structures, designs acquisition strategies and implements plans for both purchasers and potential acquisition targets in domestic and international level. We also provide advice on the formation and structure of joint ventures, ensuring the harmonious operation of businesses across Southeast Europe.

We provide practical and professional advice and assistance on contractual issues, drafting and negotiating of all types of agreements, covering most aspects of international business transactions and operations.

International contracts drafted and negotiated on behalf of clients include co-operation contracts, contracts for supply of goods and provision of services, distribution and agency agreements, franchise contracts, as well as standard terms and conditions of business.

The Firm provides legal counselling and representation on international trade issues, policies, dispute resolution, remedies procedures and technical analysis of developments in international economic areas. We advise clients on customs, export and import controls, antidumping, countervailing duties and other issues of trade regulation from an international perspective; our clients include manufacturers, distributors, exporters, importers and end-users.

The Firm provides highly specialised legal services in both procedural and legal matters related to public works, supplies and services, as well as Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).

The Firm is involved in negotiating and structuring PPP Projects, advising on compliance with tender procedures and public contracts, and representing clients in risk evaluation, regulatory compliance, bidding and contract performance disputes before awarding authorities and courts.

The Firm covers a complete range of litigation at all levels of national and international civil and administrative judicial review, as well as before arbitration courts and tribunals.

Whilst we successfully represent domestic and international clients in various complex commercial and civil matters, a great deal of our efforts is geared towards supporting and enabling clients to avoiding disputes from arising in the first place, by proactively minimising litigation risks.

Where, however, disputes do arise, a practical approach is adopted, aiming at resolving matters with minimum disruption to clients’ businesses, as quickly and effectively as possible, having regard to the constraints of the various judicial systems where the firm operates.