Professor Paparseniou law firm provides specialised services in cases which fall into the fields of civil and commercial law, covering issues of national and EU law.
The cases, that we handle, often in collaboration with law firms abroad, require investigation and solution of complex legal issues. Indicatively the fields of our expertise are:
Our firm provides specialised legal services of high quality to legal entities, such as indicatively companies, unions, foundations, charitable associations, trusts and joint ventures.
We have a long experience in the judicial and advisory advocacy, having provided our legal support either on a long-term collaboration (as for example with the companies SIEMENS S.A. and Landis & Gyr S.A. and with the association of the German School of Athens), or on a case-by-case basis.
We feature high specialisation and experience on issues of contract law, covering the whole spectrum of private transactions.
We deal with civil law contracts (indicatively sale and purchase, rents, consumer and mortgage credit, Swiss franc loans, construction agreements, guarantee contracts) and with more modern commercial contracts as well (indicatively contracts of investment services, commercial rents, franchising, leasing).
In that context we have collaborated with leasing firms and corporate groups of the private sector, writing, checking and legally evaluating their contracts, but also undertaking the juridical advocacy of such cases.
Our firm undertakes the solution of cross-border disputes in the field of civil and commercial law with consistency and professionalism, having provided for many years legal services of high quality to natural and legal persons in Europe and internationally.
During our firm’s long course, we have successfully provided legal consultations and defended judicial cases with international character.
In that context, we also deal with issues of international private law, such as issues of applicable law, international jurisdiction and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
We have a long experience in the judicial defense and the consultations and advices in the field of banking law and especially of banking contracts.
Our attorneys have stood legal advisors of banking institutions and Professor Paraskevi Paparseniou is a member of the Legal Committee of the Bank of Greece.
Our attorneys are specialised in cases of consumer protection law, having a long presence in the court rooms for consumer disputes and having provided a plethora of consultations for these issues.
We specialise indicatively in issues of pre-determined contract terms, product liability, unfair commercial practices, credit agreements, foreign currency loans (i.e. Swiss franc), having provided our legal services to consumer unions, but also to businesses from all the economy fields, such as to insurance businesses, electronic communications businesses, pharmaceutical and touristic businesses.
We have high expertise and experience in copyright law. We deal with national and cross-border copyright disputes, having high quality and knowledge upon national and European copyright law.
In our clientele there are publishers, to which we have provided legal services during the negotiations and conclusion of contracts with authors and foreign publishers, but also we have defense a plethora of judicial cases of infringement of authors’ copyright and performers’ related rights.
We stand out for our specialised experience in dealing with cases through the whole spectrum of legal services, which are related to real estate.
Together with the examination of ownership status and encumbrances and of issues of national cadastre, we deal with every dispute that arises from the operation and administration of immovable property, such as indicatively with issues of ownership, mortgages, notation of mortgages, horizontal/vertical ownership, easements, buildings’ bye-laws, actions and petitions of property law.
As a law firm of civil law, family and succession law constitute basic fields in which we provide our legal support, covering all the related issues.
Indicatively, in relation to family law we handle cases of personal and proprietary relations of the spouses, relations of parents and children, divorce, parental responsibility, custody, communication, maintenance.
We have also defend on a judiciary level and we have provided legal advice and consultation for many issues of succession law, such as issues of testaments, intestates, legal share, bequest, acceptance-disaffirmance of inheritance.
Our firm has a long legal tradition in providing legal services on issues of protection of personality from infringements through the press and Internet, having defended public persons from press publications against them and having provided consultations on issues of infringements of personality, image, private life and personal data.
We have high knowledge and experience in handling cases of medical law and especially on issues of civil liability emerging because of medical error in relations of doctors and patients, but also in relations of hospitals and patients.
In our clientele there are private health centers and public hospitals, doctors and patients as well, as we have handled successfully cases of damages actions and we have provided consultation in issues of patient’s consent, infringement of medical conduct code and medical civil liability.