Romanian employees working remotely from other countries: from theory to practice Article by Roxana Tureac – Radu, Partner Rokas Romania, published in Lexology on Jan 27, 2022 Working remotely for Romanian employees (contracted with a Romanian employer) from abroad is regulated mainly by Law no 81/ 2018 and is in theory possible, but is it...Read More

LexGTDT Labour & Employment 2021 – Greece Article/Chapter for Greece written by Rokas, published in the LexGTDT Labour & Employment 2021 Primary and secondary legislation What are the main statutes and regulations relating to employment? There is no labour law code; however, there are numerous legal statutes and regulations (the Constitution of Greece, laws, presidential...Read More

Greece: Mergers & Acquisitions – 4th edition Article/Chapter for Greece written by Rokas’ Associates, published in The Legal 500 Comparative Legal Guide: Mergers & Acquisitions, 2020 What are the key rules/laws relevant to M&A and who are the key regulatory1. authorities? Law 4601/2019 “On Corporate Transformations” (Government Gazette A’ 44/09.03.2019, hereinafter the “Law”) came into...Read More

28 January Data Protection Day Raising awareness On 28 January each year, at the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s data protection “Convention 108”, the Global Data Protection Day is celebrated. In joining the 2020 celebration and in the spirit of promoting awareness, Rokas’ Data Protection Law team, prepared a respective Newspill on recent developmentsRead More

Greece: Mergers & Acquisitions – 3rd edition (Article/Chapter for Greece written by Paraskevi Res and Chloe Iordanidou – Rokas’ Associates, published in The Legal 500 & The In-House Lawyer Comparative Legal Guide: Mergers & Acquisitions, March 2019)Read More

Serbian Law on Centralised Register of Beneficial owners The Law on Centralised Register of Beneficial owners has been adopted on 25 May 2018 and came into force on 8 June 2018 (hereinafter „the Law“). The Law introduces the obligation for legal entities and other registered subjects in the Republic of Serbia, apart from public joint...Read More

Amendments to the Serbian Company Law The recent amendments to the Serbian Company Law, which have been adopted on 08 June 2018, mostly relate to the harmonization with the EU acquis (such as cross-border merger and European company forms). However, several important changes have been made so as to resolve the issues in the practical...Read More

Greece: Mergers and Acquisition law (Article/Chapter for Greece written by Chloe Iordanidou – Associate, published in The Legal 500 & The In-House Lawyer Comparative Legal Guide: Mergers & Acquisitions, February 2018) The Legal 500 & The In-House LawyerComparative Legal GuideGreece: Mergers & Acquisitions This country-specific Q&A gives an overview of mergers and acquisition law, the...Read More

EU Competition Law Amendments to Procedural Rules On November 2014, the Directive 2014/104/EU of the European Parliament and the Council on certain rules governingactions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and ofthe European Union was adopted, having the aim to ensure that victims of antitrust...Read More

Physical and Virtual Selective Distribution in the EU Competition Law Selective distribution in the EU Competition Law constitutes a case, in which vertical restraints are imposed in order themanufacturer to promote and sell his products/services in the market. The manufacturer has undoubtedly theleading role setting freely –within the context of the laws regarding competition- his...Read More