GREECE Trends and Developments
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 twelve partners and associates and has dealt with major penal cases of national and global interest for crimes relating to the banking sector, stock exchange, tax and customs office sector, money laundering, extradition, and mu - tual 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 concern - ing corporate penal liability and compliance with the provisions of penal law. The experience and the scientific training of its lawyers cover the contemporary requirements of the national and international legislative framework.
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Ovvadias S. Namias is managing partner of Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm. He provides consulting services and in-court assistance in criminal cases of fraud, bribery, tax
Vasileios Petropoulos is a partner at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm practising in the areas of white-collar crime (stock market law, stock exchange offences, insider trading, market
evasion, customs office offences, stock- 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. Active in the field of criminal internal investigations, 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.
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 has published monographs and articles and acted on several legislative committees. He is a member of the board of the 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.
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