GREECE Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Ovvadias S. Namias, Vasileios Petropoulos, Ilias Spyropoulos and Emmanouil V. Apostolakis Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm
Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm is located in Athens and was established in 2006. The firm consists of 13 partners and associates, and has dealt with major penal cases of national and global interest for crimes relating to the bank - ing sector, the stock exchange, the tax and customs office sector, money laundering, ex - tradition and mutual legal assistance. The firm provides legal services to natural persons and legal entities, covering the whole spectrum of penal law, with particular emphasis on financial
penal law and international court assistance in penal cases. The firm is also experienced in conducting and evaluating criminal internal in - vestigations. The firm offers domestic and for - eign legal entities its wide knowledge and ex - perience on issues concerning corporate penal liability and compliance with the provisions of penal law. The experience and scientific training of its members correspond to the contemporary requirements of the national and international legislative framework.
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Ovvadias S. Namias is the managing partner of Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm. He was an Attorney at Law of the National Bank of Greece from 1999 to 2006, specialising in financial
Vasileios Petropoulos joined Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm in 2010 and is a partner practising in the areas of white-collar crime (stock market law, stock exchange offences, insider
penal issues. Ovvadias has provided consulting services and in-court assistance in criminal cases of fraud (breach of trust, corruption), bribery, tax evasion, customs office offences, stock exchange offences, insider trading, market abuse, legalisation of profits from illegal activities (money laundering), 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. He is fluent in English, German and French, and has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1993.
trading, market abuse, breach of trust, fraud, money laundering, and tax criminal law), with experience in cross-border regulatory compliance and criminal internal investigations. He is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Vasileios has published monographs and many articles, and has participated in several legislative committees. He is fluent in German and English, and is a member of the Patras Bar Association (2003).
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