AEEC IN ATHENS

GREECE

MICHELIS – STRONGYLAKI – REINHARDT

History

A few decades ago, lawyers Nassos Michelis, Ada Strongylaki and Dirk Reinhardt, each having completed a demanding legal professional and scientific path, joined forces and started a dynamic partnership in the legal profession. Drawing on a family legal tradition since 1954, a strong European scientific experience and a comprehensive practice of the legal profession, the three lawyers followed a common course, which evolved into the establishment of MStR Law. Since its establishment, the law firm has been following a dynamic course of development and growth in supporting its Greek and foreign clients, covering all areas of law, offering integrated legal solutions, innovating in traditional market sectors and pioneering new legal practices followed internationally. MStR Law is currently operating in three offices in the centre of Athens. The partners, together with senior and junior associates and management staff, can cover the legal needs of its clients at all times.

Services – Legal Areas

Our Firm is capable of offering any kind of legal support, thanks to its long-time experience in most legal sectors; inter alia, in Commercial and Civil Law, Corporate law, Energy and Environmental law and Tax Law. Our goal and philosophy is to provide our clients with comprehensive advice and deliver legal solutions focusing on the prompt information on the applying legislation as well as on the legal protection, both judicial and out-of-court, of their rights and interests. We support Greek and foreign based enterprises as well as individuals in their private, professional, commercial or investment legal affairs in Greece and Cyprus (where we work with correspondent law firms), as well as Greek companies in their legal affairs in other European countries.

The specific legal practice areas, with which we mainly deal with, include:

• Energy and Environmental law
• Civil law (contracts, claims, real estate transactions, law of succession, etc.)
• Corporate and Commercial law
• Administrative and Constitutional law
• Intellectual property (IP/IT law) and Innovation
• Competition
• Corporate transformations (M&A)
• Banking law
• Corporate taxation advice on Greek and European legislation (including double taxation treaties)
• Transportation and Employment law

In terms of the provided services, we are in the position to offer, inter alia, the following:

• Legal due diligence, RES due diligence
• Drafting of legal memoranda and opinions on Greek and European law
• Drafting and review of all types of contracts and legal documents (cooperation agreements, EPC, project contracts, JV agreements, LOI, labor contracts, loans, lease agreements, etc.) as well as legal support during the conclusion and negotiations
• Drafting of every type of corporate documentation (e.g. Articles of Association, BoD and General Assembly minutes)
• Debt-collection services
• Litigation, representation before all Greek Courts of all judicial degrees
• Real estate reviews
• True copy certifications and translation services (from English, German, French and Spanish to Greek, as well as from Greek to German and English)
• Representation before all Public Authorities (e.g. Regulatory Authorities, Tax Authorities, Social Security Funds, etc.) as well as third parties

Our Expertise

Main area of our expertise is energy law. Our firm has a long-standing experience in the Greek energy market for more than twenty years. Since then, it has advised Greek and international enterprises, in addition to associations and government agencies. We have supported hundreds of MW projects of Renewable Energy Sources, including photovoltaic plants, wind parks, biomass and biogas projects. We also advise on energy efficiency, waste management, energy storage and hydrogen issues.
Other areas of expertise are corporate and commercial, civil law, including all issues related to real estate, as well as litigation in respective fields, with extensive experience in cross-border disputes and issues, i.e. generally speaking the legal support of transactions effected by foreign investors in Greece.
We regularly advice Greek and foreign companies on all aspects of corporate law, including day-to-day operation, preparation of internal documents, conclusion of contracts, e.g. distribution agreements, transformations, M&A as well as tax issues on the basis of national and European tax legislation as well as Double Tax Treaties.

Affiliations and Contact

(The Main offices are in the centre of Athens, 23 Sina street, 2nd floor, Kolonaki, while the firm has also a branch at 7 Ippokratous street, 3rd floor.)
We have an excellent networking base with lawyers and Law Offices in Greece, while we can also provide foreign and Greek clients with access to leading providers of related services such as consultants, accountants and auditors throughout Greece. Our Firm cooperates with law firms all over Europe, through our membership of a high ranked Law Association in the EU.
Our Firm is an active member of the Hellenic-French Chamber and advisory of the Hellenic-Austrian Chamber as well as an active member of the Hellenic-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (AHK), where MStR contributes regularly to the activities of the Energy Committee of the AHK.

MEMBER
INFORMATIONS

GREECE

Athens

MICHELIS – STRONGYLAKI – REINHARDT

 Sina 23
 10680 Athens
 + 30 210 3634417
 + 30 210 3636791
 info@mstr-law.gr
 http://www.mstr-law.gr

CONTACT PERSON
FOR AEEC MATTERS

Dirk Reinhardt

VITA

Dirk Reinhardt is lawyer at the Greek Supreme Court in Athens and partner in MStR Law Firm. Born and raised in Germany, he graduated from the Law Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. After moving to Athens he became a member of the Athens Bar Association. He executed legal and judicial practice in the Law Office of Anthony Lambropoulos, specializing in civil, corporate and commercial law, and worked for KPMG and PwC in Athens as tax consultant and manager, providing tax and legal solutions on various tax and related matters in Greece, including Double Taxation Avoidance Treaties, for the establishment, operation and merger & acquisitions of companies and in respect of large scale projects and investment in Greece in general. Since 2005 and onwards he has been a partner in MStR Law Firm, handling mostly tax, labour, corporate and energy law (especially environmental law, renewables, energy efficiency) cases as well as new technologies, innovation and start-ups issues in Greece. He is founding member and Vice President of the Hellenic Institute for Legal Studies in Innovative Entrepreneurship & Start-ups. He is ongoing member of the working group for legal matters of the Greek-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce. He speaks German, Greek and English and is regular referent at law and investment conferences in Greece and abroad for tax and energy issues.

Offices

Athens

Staff

2

Accredited professionals

12

Partners

3

Dedicated departments in the field of energy and climate

Renewable Energy, Storage, Hydrogen

Accredited professionals active in the field of energy

5

Other departments

Real Estate, Tax, Corporate, Labour, LDD, Investment incentives, Judicial Proceedings, Contracts

Clients in the field of energy and climate

SME from Greece and abroad and Individual investors, Developers and operators of RES power plants

Approach

Client centered and one stop shop