ICLG Merger & Acquisition Guide – Greek Chapter Our firm is a contributor of the ICLG Merger & Acquisition Guide – Greek Chapter. Viktoria Chatzara, Junior Partner & Kosmas Karanikolas, Associate, provide information about the current issues and regulations affecting the M&A field in Greece and address major topics and insight on the most common...Read More

Investment Firms: New regulatory regime Investment Firms: New regulatory regime The Investment Firm Regulation1 (IFR), combined with the Investment Firm Directive2 (IFD), introduce a bespoke prudential regime for the vast majority of EU’s investment firms; the latter being currently subject, along with credit institutions, to Basel-derived prudential rules set out in the Capital Requirements Regulation3...Read More

ESG factors’ paramount importance depicted in EU legislation Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector (Disclosure Regulation, ESG Regulation or SFDR), as well as Regulation (EU) 2020/852 on the facilitation of sustainable investment (Taxonomy Regulation), form part of Commission’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan, linking Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors to...Read More

PEPP. Could it channel an additional road towards viable pensions? Τhe Directive on Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORPs ΙΙ) regulates a private, voluntary and collective pension scheme, which supplements the state pensions. In September 2015, the Commission presented the fundamental guidelines for a new private and individual pension product, which is the standard Pan-European...Read More

Pissarides’ Committee proposal on the transformation of the supplementary State pensions’ scheme The Pissarides’ Committee aims to provide a solution to the State pensions’ fiery problem, by enhancing the credibility of the Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORPs), so that the latter will be able to operate as insurance companies and be supervised on a...Read More

ESG Disclosure Regulation takes effect on March 10, 2021 On December 9, 2019, Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 on sustainability‐related disclosures in the financial services sector (“ESG Disclosure Regulation”) was published in the Official Journal of the EU. This Regulation was enacted as part of the European Commission’s Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth and it shall...Read More

Speaker at the Panhellenic Congress 2020 Ms Alkistis Christofilou, partner with Rokas Law Firm, had the honor to participate in the top conference in the fields of health sciences and health services research, with a remarkable impact on the country’s health policies, taking place online, on 7-10 December 2020. The focus of the 2020 Panhellenic...Read More

Rokas Partners Mira Todorovic Symeonides and Dr. Charalampos (Harris) Synodinos have contributed, for a third consecutive year, to the Energy Investment Risk Assessment (EIRA) Report/Greece Chapter – a publication by the Energy Charter Secretariat. The main objective of the Energy Investment Risk Assessment (EIRA) is to evaluate legal risk in the energy sector and includes...Read More

COVID-19: Rokas Greek publications In the context of the COVID-19 outbreak, we [exceptionally] publish in our site newsbriefs in Greek concerning the established emergency measures by the Greek State in national level as well as a brief outlook of its impact on the insurance law perspective. A brief summary in English will follow.Read More

Rokas (Athens) successfully represents global pharmaceutical company in de-listing drug from the “positive” prescription medicines list A global pharmaceutical company established in Greece for over half a century and Marketing Authorization Holder (MAH) for, among many, a medicinal product which was registered with the so-called “positive list” of prescription medicines, had applied for the removal...Read More