Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Our IP law and Dispute Resolution teams, led by George Ballas (Senior & Managing Partner), secured a highly important ruling, representing the plaintiff, a world-famous Swiss cosmetics manufacturer.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Our team successfully represented a software developer in a contentious software copyright infringement matter.
Thursday, February 22, 2024
On 31 January, a bill was submitted to Parliament that includes the determination of the minimum wage for the year 2024. At the same time, the digital work card system is introduced for new types of businesses, while a reduction of the salary threshold for managerial employees is also due to take effect as of 1 March 2024.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
We are thrilled and honoured to share that our firm was named IP Firm of the Year in Greece at the 2023 IAM and World Trademark Review Global IP Awards.
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Our Senior Partner, Gregory Pelecanos, will represent our firm at the 8th Patras IQ Innovation & Technology Transfer Conference and Exhibition on 25-27 November 2023.
Thursday, November 16, 2023
George Ballas, Senior & Managing Partner, and Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Associate, discuss the current legal framework concerning Artificial Intelligence in Greece with a contribution to Lexing’s latest issue of Lexing® Insights.
Thursday, November 2, 2023
The highly successful 4th Athens International Arbitration Forum, which was held on 19 October 2023, had “States and State Entities in International Arbitration” as its main theme. Ballas, Pelecanos & Associates L.P.C. were, once again, proud golden sponsors of the event that attracted leading arbitration practitioners, international arbitrators and academics.
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Law 5053/2023 of the Ministry of Labour, effective as of 26 September 2023, transposes Directive 2019/1152/EU “On permanent and predictable working conditions”, which originally set a deadline of 1 August 2022 for its transposition, into Greek law.
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Sakkoulas-online has just published an article by Gregory Pelecanos, Senior Partner, on product prices and competition law.
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
We are very pleased to see that our latest contribution to the Legal Technology Practice Guide - Getting the Deal Through 2023, published by Lexology, is now in print!
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Pursuant to Law 5038/2023 (the "Immigration Code"), significant changes were brought to legislation concerning the codification and amendment of existing provisions, as well as the introduction of new ones.
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
On 17 April 2023 the European Commission (the “EC”) published Regulation (EU) 2023/822 extending the duration of Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation (EU) No 2010/461 (MVBER) for a further five years, until 31 May 2028, along with the updated Supplementary Guidelines on vertical restraints in agreements for the sale and repair of motor vehicles and for the distribution of spare parts for motor vehicles (2023/C 133 I/01).