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Posted on 9 February 202327 February 2023 by Dave Robertson

Kelemenis & Co. is a premium Athens-based law firm providing quality legal services in the key corporate and commercial areas.

The firm advises a varied client base that includes corporations, governments, large institutions and high-net-worth individuals. The firm draws on a team of experienced lawyers with excellent academic qualifications from world-class universities.

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Kelemenis & Co. is a premium Athens-based law firm providing quality legal services in the key corporate and commercial areas. The firm advises a varied client base that includes corporations, governments, large institutions and high-net-worth individuals. It has built a reputation for acting on complex, high volume cross-border transactions for a range of corporate and financial institution clients. The firm’s track record spreads across an array of sectors including hotels & leisure, energy, infrastructure, real estate, retail and technology.

Kelemenis & Co. has been involved in the sector of hotels & leisure since its inception and has continuously developed the practice. It advises some of the country’s largest and most prestigious hotel chains and several domestic and international investors, private equity funds, travel companies and operators on the full range of legal services including acquisitions, disposals, developments and construction, equity capital, bond issues, litigation and M&As. Given the sector’s focus on real estate, transactions involve advanced financing solutions which also make use of the firm’s deal structuring, finance and tax expertise.

The firm’s work includes, among others, the following:

Hotels management contracts;
Operating leases of hotels;
Acquisitions and disposals;
Development and construction;
Franchising schemes;
Joint ventures;
Incentives and grants;
Domestic regulatory and employment matters peculiar to the sector;
Sector-specific litigation; and
Tax compliance, especially on VAT.

Recent highlights include:

Acquisition of travel company Youtravel.com by FTI Tourstik GmbH.
Arbitration over the demerger of the Sbokos Hotels Group, one of the largest of its kind in Greece.
Acting for Aquis Hotels & Resort in multi-jurisdiction demerger involving Greece, UK and Cyprus.
Advice to UK-based fund Warwick Capital Partners on contemplated acquisitions in the Greek hotel sector.
Establishment and corporate restructuring of Meeting Point Hellas, a subsidiary of Meeting Point International.
A joint venture between two large hotel chains in the Greek islands.

Italy

Posted on 9 February 202327 February 2023 by Dave Robertson

By virtue of our two offices, the first located in Milan and the second in Perugia, we are able to easily serve clients with respect to matters focused in the North and Centre of Italy.

Our network of correspondents also provides assistance in litigation before any Italian judicial offices. With regard to civil matters, we provide advice and expertise to the travel industry both with respect to litigation and dispute resolution and in non-contentious matters.

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The firm assists companies in litigation relating to package tours – including disputes before the Antitrust Authority, in its specific capacity as the authority regulating incorrect commercial practices – as well as in recovery actions against service providers directly responsible for causing damages to tourists and debt recovery actions. We also act as defence counsel in recovery actions brought by insurance companies. The firm further provides assistance in actions for the protection of trademarks, competition, copyrights and advertising disputes.

The firm provides advice and assistance in the context of judicial and mediation proceedings, before the competent Administrative Authorities, and in conciliation and arbitration procedures (both administered and non-administered), including before the Jury of the Advertising Self-Regulation Institute (Giurì dell’Istituto di Autodisciplina Pubblicitaria).

With respect to non-contentious matters, the firm prepares contract models governing BTB dealings as well as dealings with consumers; we prepare agency, distribution and service agreements and we also check the compliance of general clauses used by our clients with consumer protection, package tour and travel-related regulations; the firm also provides advice on data-privacy regulation compliance.

Last but not least, the firm handles complex commercial transactions concerning the provision of tourism and travel-related services such as, among others, the preparation of all contracts necessary for the realisation and distribution of “gift boxes” (including general terms applicable to consumers and also all contracts and agreements governing relationships with suppliers of tourism services, with any intermediaries and with retail and large chain store distributors).

Portugal

Posted on 9 February 202327 February 2023 by Dave Robertson

Neville de Rougemont & Associados was established in 1987, and has fully transactional offices located in Portugal (Lisbon and Faro), United Kingdom and Cape Verde. Conceived in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, our aim is to be perceived as an international law firm within the Portuguese market offering advice in areas of law and expertise not generally available in traditional firms.

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Spain

Posted on 9 February 202327 February 2023 by Dave Robertson

Based in Madrid, Spain, Rogers & Co. has worked as a team on personal injury claims for foreign clients (including class actions) for the last ten years.

We are experienced in;

Personal Injury Claims
Recoveries and Enforcements
Legal Precedent

More recently, we are also acting for a large number of UK Tour Operators and their insurers. Our experience spans not only all sides of the claim process, recoveries and enforcement in Spain, but also advising on Spanish law in foreign courts, principally the courts of the UK. From a commercial point of view, we have advised foreign underwriters on compliance relating to travel insurance and foreign service providers in relation to package holidays.

Marie Rogers grew up in London and qualified and practiced as an English solicitor in the City before moving to Spain 15 years ago and qualifying as a Spanish lawyer. This unique background allows us to combine our experience with a real and focused awareness of our clients’ cultural differences and expectations.

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Furlough’s End

Posted on 15 September 20219 February 2023 by Dave Robertson

As the sun sets on the government’s furlough scheme which will end in exactly 15 days’ time on the 30 September, the government has updated its guidance for employers on the Coronavirus Job Retention scheme. However before you all get excited, it’s not an extension to the current scheme, but rather what employers will need to consider with regards to staff who are still on furlough. A new section headed “When the government ends the scheme” has been added.

In short, the guidance under the new section states that employers will need to make decisions in anticipation of the scheme ending. Namely;

Whether to bring employees back to work
Terminate their employment on grounds of redundancy
Agree with employees any changes to their terms and conditions of employment

There are currently around 1.9 million people still on furlough, many of whom are employed in the travel industry and with the lack of sector specific support, employers in the industry will yet again face difficult decisions as to what to do for the best with regards to staff. Many employers will have already decided, but such decisions cannot be delayed much longer, because of the time it takes to go through redundancy consultations or indeed for time to consult on contract variations.

If you require advice or want to talk through your options please
get in touch with Ami or call us on;

0113 258 0033