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Trends and Developments Contributed by: Ovvadias S. Namias, Vasileios Petropoulos, Ilias Spyropoulos and Emmanouil Apostolakis Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm
Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm is located in Athens and was established in 2006. The firm consists of 12 partners and associates and has dealt with major pe- nal cases of national and global interest for crimes re- lating to the banking sector, stock exchange, tax and customs office sector, money laundering, extradition, and mutual legal assistance. The firm’s legal services extend across the whole spectrum of penal law, with emphasis on financial penal law and international
court assistance in penal cases. It also conducts and evaluates criminal internal investigations. Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm offers domestic and foreign legal entities broad knowledge and experience in issues concerning corporate penal liability and compliance with the provisions of penal law. The experience and the scientific training of its lawyers cover the contem- porary requirements of the national and international legislative framework.
Authors
Ovvadias S. Namias is the managing partner of Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm. He provides consulting services and in-court assistance in criminal cases of fraud, bribery, tax evasion, customs office offences, stock-
Hellenic Association of Penal Law, a member of the drafting committee of the legal journal of the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association, and a member of the Patras Bar Association.
Ilias Spyropoulos is a senior associate at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm and has been involved in cases related to fraud, breach of trust, bribery, money laundering, extradition and mutual legal assistance. He also
exchange offences, insider trading, market abuse, legalisation of profits from illegal activities, and personal data, as well as in cases of European criminal law, extradition and mutual legal assistance. Ovvadias also lectures regularly and is widely published. A member of the board of directors of the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association from 2004 to 2022, Ovvadias is president of the General Assembly of the Jewish Community of Athens, and has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1993. practising in white-collar crime (stock market law, stock exchange offences, insider trading, market abuse, breach of trust, fraud, money laundering, and tax criminal law). He has experience in cross-border regulatory compliance and criminal internal investigations. He is an assistant professor of law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Vasileios is a published author and has acted on legislative committees. He is on the board of the Vasileios Petropoulos is a partner at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm
works on criminal internal investigations. Ilias studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, obtaining an LLM in criminal law and criminal procedure. He then received his PhD in criminal law from the Ludwig-Maximilians- University of Munich. He has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 2010 and of the Munich Bar Association since 2011. Ilias lectures in criminal law at the faculty of law of the Democritus University of Thrace.
Emmanouil Apostolakis joined Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm in 2021 and is a senior associate practising in white-collar crime. He holds a PhD in criminal law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
where he was awarded a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation. He holds an LLM from the
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