Chapter Greece: Labour & Employment 2022 Christos Theodorou / Partner, Viktoria Chatzara / Junior Partner and Niki Nisotaki / Associate at Rokas Law Firm (Athens), have drafted the Chapter on Labour & Employment 2022 for Greece as exclusive contributors of Lexology GTDT. LEGISLATION AND AGENCIES Primary and secondary legislation What are the main statutes and...Read More

Contribution of our Junior Partner Viktoria Chatzara and our Associate Sotiria Bouranta to the Second Edition of “International Immigration and Nationality Law”, Greek law chapter published by Juris Publishing. Introduction Immigration has emerged during the last two decades, and even more dramatically during the last four years, as a major social issue in Greece, with...Read More

Greece: Mergers & Acquisitions 6th edition 2022 (Chapter for Greece written by S. Getimi and K. Karanikolas, Associates, published in The Legal 500 Country Comparative Guides: Mergers & Acquisitions, 2022) 1. What are the key rules/laws relevant to M&A and who are the key regulatory authorities? i) Mergers. Law 4601/2019 “On Corporate Transformations” (Government Gazette...Read More

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