Dr. Dimitris Chatzimichael, LL.M.

Phone(+30) 2310 251521

practice areas

  • Company Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • Commercial Law
  • Private Insurance & Banking Law
  • Transportation Law
  • Real Estate Law
  • Labor Law

Languages

  • Greek
  • English
  • German
  • French

Biography

Born in Kavala, Greece; Member of the Thessaloniki Bar since 1993; authorized to appear before Greek Courts of all instances. Visiting Lecturer in Commercial Law, Neapolis University Pafos as of October 2023. Head of Rokas Thessaloniki branch since March 2015.

 

Dimitrios has been engaged in the establishment, acquisition and restructuring of many commercial companies in Greece. He is also specialized in dispute resolution in the fields of corporate, financial, insurance, intellectual property, administrative, national and international transport and general commercial law.

He has experience in conducting due diligence on enterprises for the purposes of sale and has experience in administrative law litigation before the Supreme Administrative Court of Greece as well as a litigation experience of more than 20 years before Greek Courts of all instances.

His recent indicative experience includes:

  • Legal support for acquisition of majority stake in two companies. Legal due diligence of corporate and financial documents and title deeds of two affiliated companies as the owner of the territorial area of implementation of the project. Contracts for the Pledge of shares of the two companies
  • Legal advice and assistance regarding corporate issues (minority block, inactive state, debt payment, liquidation) of the Client’s subsidiary in Thessaloniki, in which the Client hold 51% of the shares while two individuals hold other 49% of shares. The company has been inactive for a long period of time and has not been fulfilling its tax and possible other obligations to third parties.
  • Legal consultant of Alpha Bank and Eurobank. Legal services provided include mortgage foreclosure deeds, assents as attorney on behalf of the Banks, deed of property and real property verifications
  • Legal consultant to several insurance companies (which have permanent cooperation with Rokas on litigation and consulting issues) such as Generali, Interamerican Insurance Co, AXA, Aigaion Insurance Co, International Life Insurance Co
  • Handling of corporate law cases before courts
  • Scientific Associate in the monthly Law Review of Thessaloniki Bar Association “Armenopoulos” (January 2006 – June 2019)
  • Former external scientific collaborator of the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki) for the Programme “Young Enterpreneurship”
  • Former Scientific collaborator (external academic staff) (P.D. 407/80) i) at the University of Macedonia (Department of Administration) Thessaloniki, ii) at the Faculty of Law, University of Thrace (Department of Commercial and Labour law), iii) at the University of Macedonia (Department of Administration and Technology) and iv) at the University of West Macedonia (Department of Balkan Studies), teaching in Postgraduate Programme: “Governance of the international financial system”.

 

Education:

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Law School (Diploma,1991; LL.M. in Company and Intellectual Property Law, 1993).

Ph.D. in Commercial Companies’ Law [summa cum laude], 2004.

Author:

  • Lexology / Navigating Greenwashing Risks: Key Regulations and Supervisory Measures in Sustainable Finance, 2024;
  • Lexology / In-Depth: Insurance & Reinsurance Law, chapter Greece 2024;
  • Lexology / Protecting a trademark of Reputation EUIPO Opposition no B 3 184 491, 2024;
  • Lexology / Foreign investment law and policy in Greece, 2023;
  • “Inventorship, Ownership of the right to apply for a Patent. Entitlement disputes of National and European Patents. (Proprietor’s Determination before and after the grand of patent), Sakkoulas S.A., Thessaloniki – Athens, 2015;
  • Partner’s exclusion from a private company on the grounds of a just cause, Sakkoulas S.A., Thessaloniki – Athens, 2005;
  • “Groups of companies. The specific and general law of the connection among group of companies”. Contribution to collective work: Anonymes Etairies (S.A.) by V. Antonopoulos / S. Mouzoulas, Sakkoulas S.A. Thessaloniki – Athens, 2013;
  • “The Boundaries of Statutory freedom in S.A. (as a result of the tendency for greater regulatory flexibility”. Contribution to collective work “The S.A. in company, insolvency and capital market’s law” by Μ. – Th. Μarinos, P. Ν. Sakkoulas, Dikaio & Oikonomia, 2011.
  • He has been the author of several articles and of a great number of case law comments in legal journals and reviews.