Our partner, Dr. Christina Tarnanidou, Assistant Professor of Commercial Law at Athens University of Economics and Business, has concluded successfully under her Presidency in the Statutory Committee of the Ministry of Finance of the Hellenic Republic, the Draft Law for the implementation of the Regulation (EU) 909/2014 “on improving securities settlement in the European Union...Read More

Basic Legislation on Insolvency by Rokas’ senior partner Ioannis Rokas has been published and is a collection of legislation for the regulation of financial insolvency situations with useful comments and interpretative remarks. It includes the Laws on: Bankruptcy, Insolvency Manager, Over-indebted individuals and Out-of-Court Settlement of Indebted Businesses.Read More

This Festschift/ Liber Amicorum is a tribute to honour the work of em. Professor Dr. Jur. Ioannis K. Rokas and senior partner of the firm, who, as a Professor, held the Chair of Commercial Law at the Athens University of Economics and Business. The book includes 67 essays by prominent legal scholars and practitioners in...Read More

“The ‘Dematerialized’ Insurance”, Distance selling and Cyber Risks from an International Perspective”, by Professors P. Marano, I. Rokas and P. Kochenburger – Editors, has recently been published by Springer International Publishing. The book examines the online sale of insurance and the way it challenges the insurance regulation and the insurance contract, with a focus on...Read More

Textile company from Bangladesh, Pretty Group signed an agreement on the allocation of EUR 3.4 million worth of incentives for launching a production textile facility in Sombor, which will create 1,100 jobs. The signing was attended by our lawyers Aleksandar Mladenovic and Vuk Stankovic of «Mladenovic & Stankovic in cooperation with Rokas Law Firm», the...Read More

On 14/12/2016 in Athens, Greece (Electra Palace Hotel) a workshop, was jointly organised and held by the University of Exeter Law School, UK (academic partner) and Rokas Law Firm (non-academic partner) on the topic of the UK Insurance Law Reforms. The workshop is a continuation of an ESRC Award on the Insurance Act 2015. The...Read More

Rokas (Athens) acted as the legal advisor to the Greek power utility Public Power Corporation S.A. (PPC) in the tendering process for the sale of a 24 percent stake in power grid operator ADMIE S.A. (IPTO S.A.), while HSBC Bank plc, Citigroup Global Markets Ltd. and NBG Securities acted as financial advisors respectively.Read More

“Modern Energy Markets – Legal Framework and Greek Perspective”, by Dr. Christina I. Tarnanidou, Partner of Rokas and Lecturer of Commercial and Financial Law at AUEB, has now been published (Nomiki Vivliothiki, 2016). The book refers to the wholesale energy markets as they operate as exchanges under EU law and the market practice (e.g. Nord...Read More

Rokas (Skopje) concluded successfully in May, 2016 the project, entrusted to the firm by Alpha Bank – a leading banking institution in Greece – of acting as the vendor’s legal consultant in the sale process of its wholly owned subsidiary in FYR of Macedonia. The project involved the total share capital of Alpha Bank AD...Read More

Rokas’ environmental resources’ law team provided legal assistance to a major global institution (World Bank) with a global project relating to access to water with an irrigation use focus. In this context, various aspects of the use of water for irrigation have been explored and tackled upon exploration of relevant Greek legal regime, such as...Read More