For over 65 years PVK has provided long-term, full-service counsel to all types and sizes of businesses.

We work with companies throughout the business life cycle. We provide legal support for start-ups on the full spectrum of key business issues, from the choice of the appropriate corporate vehicle, and the legal relations between partners or shareholders to the appropriate legal framework for each investment venture. We provide counsel on both strategic and day-to-day corporate issues, and handle corporate restructuring and corporate governance issues.

Our lawyers sit on the Boards of Directors of leading companies, work in their legal services departments and participate in working groups of business associations. They thus know business from the inside out and can effectively respond to the expectations and requirements of today’s business environment.

Representative Experience

Our track record in this field includes providing counsel on:

• a merger (by absorption) of four leading food companies which resulted in the establishment of the largest Greek food industry
• a merger (by absorption) of an important investment company by a large Greek bank
• a merger (by absorption) of a Greek insurance company by a large European insurance group
• the acquisition of a Greek petrochemicals company by a large European group
• the acquisition of the Greek condensed milk branch of a Swiss multinational by a leading Greek dairy industry
• the acquisition of a leading Greek advertising company by a top multinational advertising group
• the acquisition of the Greek portfolio of a Portuguese insurance company by a major European  insurance group
• the establishment of the appropriate corporate vehicle to control substantial monetary funds of several investment portfolio companies
• the transfer of stock and assets to a number of listed clients  active in various economic sectors
• the relation between members of a joint venture that was established to apply for a mobile telephony license
• company law issues and various types of commercial agreements for major Greek and multinational companies covering such sectors of the economy as banking, automobile, food, advertising, steel, energy, transport, petrochemicals, telecommunications, infrastructure, real estate, and tourism

Services

Corporate/M&A

• Company / joint venture formation
• Mergers/Acquisitions
• Spin-off / absorption of company branches sectors
• Transfer of stock and assets
• Transformation of legal form
• Internal restructurings of companies and groups
• Increase and reduction of registered capital
• Corporate insolvency and special liquidation
• Legal due diligence
• Partner / shareholder agreements
• Corporate governance 
• Minority rights
• Content and limitation of directors’ powers, directors’ liability
• Regulatory and compliance requirements
• Public and private offerings

Commercial

• Product marketing / labelling
• Consumer relations
• Public procurement tenders

• Negotiation, drafting and implementation of all types of commercial contracts

  Contract types:

  supply
  distribution
  agency
  franchise
  financing
  credit security
  licensing
  know-how transfer
  sponsorship
  leasing
  construction
  employment
  IT & telecommunications
  technical assistance
  confidentiality
  transport
  energy
  project management
  brokerage
  international sales
  industrial/intellectual property
  marketing
  public sector contracts