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We deliver experience in all aspects of arbitration, from commercial arbitrations to investment treaty arbitrations. Our experienced advocates are entirely comfortable arguing in arbitration proceedings who will oversee the whole dispute from start to final award.

Our lawyers and our lawyer – accredited mediator are skilled in litigation, arbitration and mediation and will deploy that experience to help you devise the best strategies. Our team allows us to provide you with fully integrated teams and consistent quality wherever you do business. We work with you to manage potential risk and implement the most effective solutions to reduce costly escalation.

Our areas of work include:

• Representing clients in commercial arbitrations
• Representing clients in investment treaty arbitration proceedings
• Advising clients on the scope of arbitration agreements
• Acting as mediator in mediation process agreed between claimants

Koumentakis & Associates is a unique mix of highly experienced consultants, lawyers and experts who can help clients deliver their objectives and improve efficiency. We act as a Strategic Legal Partner working with the top management or the legal departments of major companies to deliver legal strategy, risk and compliance control, corporate expansion and more through we participate in the design of better processes that allow our clients to demonstrate real benefits to their businesses.

Strategic decisions

Our clients regularly turn to us for advice on their most important decisions. Our partners have the presence, judgement and perspective required to make a real contribution at this level. Chairmen, CEOs, general counsel and non-executive (outside) directors come to us for help with strategic issues and confidential matters.

Interim lawyer service

Koumentakis and Associates offers an innovative approach to client services. Through K&A Advanced Consulting Services we offer a flexible working model. Interim lawyer service is our on-demand service that has been created to meet our clients’ needs  for interim, high quality legal professionals, providing peace of mind with legal expertise and the support of a robust law firm.

Working closely with clients we want to offer the flexibility of providing temporary legal resource, vetted by our experts, who will instantly add value to an organisation. Our services provide a unique way of utilising our expertise, whilst providing you with the flexibility of having someone join your team.

We offer integrated legal support to medium and large scale enterprises on a variety of legal and business issues including:

• Legal analysis (corporate due diligence, reviews, research etc.)
• Legal strategy development and implementation
• Risk and compliance implementation
• Financial Services
• Legal IT solutions
• Legal business process
• Management of Change and Human Resources
• Project management
• Dealing with legal suppliers
• Crisis management

Led by Stavros Koumentakis our team provides leading management consultancy and advisory to shareholders and top management of medium and large scale enterprises. Our law team, also backed by experts of other expertise areas – when necessary -, has a wealth of experience on advising leading corporates, funds, financial institutions, banks and other on a full range of transactions. All of our lawyers are dual qualified and fluent in English enabling us to operate credibly in international debt markets. We also add real value to cross-border deals by bringing to bear our tried and tested international project management skills, resulting in increased efficiency and costs savings.

We offer an integrated and coordinated service delivery across all jurisdictions as well as a guarantee of quality and consistency wherever you work with us. You have the benefit of centralised control over your legal budget and direct access to our local specialists.

We ally with our clients to understand their objectives and support them in obtaining the results that they need, within timescale. Delivering these solutions, and robust advice (rooted in commercial reality) within pressured time and cost constraints, sets us apart from other firms.

Legal consultants

It is not just legal advice we provide. We provide significant practical advice. With offices in Thessaloniki, strong presence in Athens and strong relationships in areas where we do not have offices, we are well known for our ability to support clients in advancing their strategies wherever they do business. We offer in-depth practical experience, creative solutions to challenges and a fee model that delivers transparency.

We regularly advise on complex pioneering business critical issues including:

• Reorganisations & Restructuring
• Planning
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Joint ventures
• Capital investment projects
• Competition
• Environmental regulation
• Regulatory requirements
• Real estate finance
• Trade and export finance
• Banking and finance
• Financial services regulatory disputes and investigations
• Intelectual Property and data protection/data privacy

Koumentakis & Associates corporate lawyers support leading enterprises, emerging startup companies and financial institutions in their development and investment activities. From mergers and acquisitions and venture capital to private and public equity and debt offerings, we assist clients through all stages of their transactions to ensure successful deal outcomes.

As a full-service business law firm, K & A provides a complete range of business legal services in all of the jurisdictions in which we operate.

Our clients benefit from a valuable combination of insight and knowledge that allow us to handle all aspects of complex domestic and cross-border corporate transactions. Understanding the industry and the day-to-day issues faced by our clients is critical to our success. That is why alongside their legal experience, our lawyers have additional industry-specific focus – whether it is Corporate governance, Banking, Energy,  Tourism, International Commerce or other sectors. Furthermore, our team includes sophisticated practitioners with experience in key practice areas, such as Intellectual property, Competition Law, Technology, Antitrust, Compensation, Tax, Financial services, Regulation, , Real estate etc.

We have particular experience in the following sectors:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Joint ventures and collaborations
• Corporate and partnership structures
• Corporate governance
• Corporate tax
• Equity capital markets
• Export control
• Private equity
• Venture capital
• Investment funds
• Private equity

Koumentakis & Associates is unique in having a team of commercial specialists which delivers on all the contracting and specialist legal areas that businesses need to accomplish in order to meet their commercial objectives. Our team gets to the heart of your business relations, routinely dealing with cross sector issues. We will most likely have come across most of your issues already and be able to provide a solution quickly.

Our team:

• identifies risks and mitigates them quickly
• offers quality advice that is legally astute
• responds to change with a coordinated full service approach
• is a point of continuity in a long project, providing real value to the client at all stages
• is a team of legal experts with commercial experience

Whether a simple contract review or a complex public sector procurement matter, we work hard to provide consistently excellent value, quality and insight. We care about getting it right and that’s why top brands trust us with their commercial legal needs.

We have particular experience in the following areas:

• Commercial Contracts
• Consumer law
• Competition and Antitrust
• Franchising and concessions
• Commercial trading
• Intellectual property (including trade mark filing services)
• Financial services regulations as they apply to the provision of services
• Software development, licensing, support and maintenance
• Distribution of hardware, software and services, including reseller arrangements

We’ll work closely with our clients to support M&A plans building a multi-disciplinary team to suit the transaction and applying our genuine sector knowledge.

With strength and depth across all types of acquisitions, disposals and competitive bids, we take a hands-on approach to transaction management. Because we get to know the business and the things our clients want to achieve, we can build a team that is tailored exactly to fit.

Our team understands the importance of providing a timely and seamless service and of working effectively with other professional advisers as part of the wider deal team.

Our areas of focus include:

• Deal structure
• Financial promotions
• Legal due diligence (including vendor due diligence)
• Transaction documentation including warranties, indemnities and the tax covenant
• Disclosure
• Financial assistance and other company law issues
• Competition and regulatory
• Managing the completion process including timings and approvals
• Post-completion issues such as announcements, filings and stamp duty

The escalating size of projects coupled with the lack of funding availability in recent times has seen a rise in the use of joint ventures, collaborations and strategic alliances. We’re there to help our clients get it right for their business.

Creating the right structure is the key to your success. Our lawyers have a deep and broad experience of providing practical, clear advice on a wide range of joint ventures and strategic alliances, including joint venture companies and commercial collaborations.

Perhaps you’re looking for help in planning and documenting the joint venture, help with creating a structure that not only meets the technical, operational, financial, accounting, regulatory, legal and tax requirements of the venture but meets commercial goals. Or looking for someone to handle the wider legal aspects like company, commercial, tax, competition, regulatory, intellectual property, environmental and employment law.

What matters most is that, we can get to the heart of the needs quickly and formulate the best response. We know the right questions to ask and what to do about the answers. We work hard to deliver a client experience that can’t be beaten.

Our areas of expertise include:

• The appropriate joint venture vehicle and structuring issues
• Strategic alliances
• Management structure, employees and employee incentives
• Control and minority protection
• Company law issues including directors’ duties
• Tax
• Cross-border issues
• Regulatory and licence considerations
• Competition and merger control
• Termination of joint ventures

Every company faces the possibility of being engulfed by a sudden crisis. Contingency planning won’t prevent a crisis, but having established processes in place will help. In a major crisis, detailed planning and a dedicated response team greatly reduce any possible conflict between your handling of the crisis and your legal obligations.

We can advise on the early critical actions common to all crises, and the governance, communication and legal pitfalls to avoid. We are there whether it is the actions of a rogue employee, a dawn raid, a liquidity crisis, a product recall, a significant fraud, an accident, press attack or collapse of a key supplier – anything that can threaten your business – or even the continued existence of your company.

The effective legal adviser can be pivotal to managing and containing issues like these efficiently and before a crisis hits, in thinking ahead: this is as much about prevention as a cure. And when the crisis is over, we can help you move your business forward and ensure that ‘big picture’ issues are tackled.

Our areas of expertise include:

• ensure the right information is available to decision makers
• ensure an accurate and consistent narrative is provided throughout by PR and communications representatives
• support and assist with any internal investigations or dawn raids
• provide necessary legal advice as to the board and management’s reporting responsibilities with an eye to collateral impacts and
• liaise with relevant regulators.

Our practice on business ethics and anti-corruption issues helps clients to navigate national and international anti-corruption, regulatory and compliance issues and investigations wherever they arise. We advise corporates, financial institutions and senior executives extensively on the implications of international business ethics and anti-corruption best practice standards, wider developments in the legislative and corporate landscape, and in relation to internal and government-led investigations.

We work alongside our client to fully understand their business and environment to develop a sustainable programme that will strengthen internal capabilities and manage every aspect of legal, reputational and operational risk associated with business ethics and anticorruption.

Consequently, our lawyers are able to provide clients with well-rounded and insightful advice that addresses local issues as well as the risks to an international business that arise from cross-border investigations. Where we need to work in conjunction with local counsel to manage a cross-border investigation or issue, our established working relationships mean that we form integrated teams and are used to managing multiple parties to deliver a high-quality service efficiently.

Our business ethics and anti-corruption practice assists clients with all aspects of business ethics and anti-corruption compliance and investigations, including:

• Risk Assessment
• Compliance and Integrity Programmes
• Anti-Corruption Training
• Due Diligence
• Internal Audit
• Investigations
• Litigation

Our experienced team delivers consistent quality and client experience across all areas of our practice. We always aim to get to the heart of what matters most to our clients, whether we are dealing with financing transactions, acting on contentious or non-contentious matters in the restructuring and insolvency arena, or advising on regulated financial services. Working across the finance sector we’re there from start to finish. That means, in addition to acting on fund raising transactions, we assist financial institutions, intermediaries and other market participants.

We are a team with deep product expertise and extensive multi-jurisdictional experience. We provide top tier strength in depth and we advise clients at the forefront of their markets.

Working closely with banks, lenders and borrowers, we view and understand finance from all perspectives. That gives us a practical stance that gets parties introduced, agreements organised, businesses financed and lenders satisfied. Our expertise covers the full spectrum of finance products including:

• Bank advisory work/strategic products
• Restructuring, insolvency and special situations
• Acquisition and leveraged finance
• Corporate lending and loan markets
• Credit funds
• Debt Capital Markets
• Hedge funds
• Infrastructure/Project finance
• Portfolio sales/debt trading
• Real estate finance
• Property Finance
• Alternative Finance
• Listed Bonds
• Crowdfunding