ABLAW

ABLAW Athens Business Lawyers – registered with the Athens Bar Association as “Kouloridas, Tountopoulos and partners Dikigoriki Etairia”) is a boutique law firm specializing in M&As, private equity, corporate, commercial law and financial regulation. The founding partners are all acknowledged experts in the field. Two of them hold academic posts in directly related areas. The firm was established in 2011 as a legal vehicle, but is based on a long record of close cooperation between its partners. Although significantly smaller than its major competitors, it brings together recognized academic excellence with business sense and extensive practical experience. On this basis, ABLAW has the capacity to represent institutions as well as private clients and professional associations and to provide advice in very complex legal and regulatory matters, bringing new ideas to bear and challenging the conventional approach when required. The academic partners also stand ready to provide individually legal opinions on their respective areas of expertise. ABLAW approaches its clients’ legal issues always within the wider framework of their strategic, business and financial goals. The firm focuses on matters that require the attention, experience, expertise and reputation of its partners and counsels. In order to provide such partner-intensive service, it operates with a ratio of partners and counsels to associates far above that of its major competitors. The list of past and present clients includes credit institutions, investment companies, private equity funds, collective investment schemes (including alternative investment vehicles), listed and non listed companies and groups in various sectors of the real economy (pharmaceuticals, gaming, international trade, metals, recycling and waste management, construction, energy and coastal shipping), as well as bodies such as the Union of Listed Companies, the Association of Members of the Stock Exchange and various other associations.