EXPERTISE

• Commercial Law
• Contracts
• Corporate Law
• Maritime Law
• Tax Law
• Forestry Law
• Gaming Law
• Real Estate Law
• Litigation
• Aviation Finance

CONTACT

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• (+30 210) 42 21 210
• (+30 210) 42 25 090
• Alassia Building 
  13 Defteras Merarchias Street 
  185 35 Piraeus, Greece

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Michael G. Rapsomanikis, a Partner of the Firm is a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1982 and is qualified to practice before Athens and Piraeus Courts of Appeals and also admitted in the Supreme Civil and Administrative Courts of Greece. 

He was previously the legal Counsel to the Dep. Minister of Finance (1999-2001) and to the Minister of Agriculture (2001-2004) and Vice-President of the Gaming Consultancy Committee (1998-1999).

DIPLOMAS

- Degree in Law from University of Athens (LL.B.) in 1977

- Postgraduate Diploma at Harvard Law School, Boston, U.S.A. (LL.M. in International Trade Law, 1979)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

- Athens Bar Association

- Maritime Lawyers Association

- Association of Greek Commercialists

- Member of Harvard Law School Association of Europe

PUBLICATIONS

- Author:

• “Frustration of Contract in International Trade Law and Comparitive Law in Duquesne Law Review (1980)
• “Legal Interest Rates Applicable to Debts in Foreign Currency which are to be paid in Greece” in Revue Hellenique de Droit International (1996).
• “Liability of Members of Provisional Administration of Legal Persons for Debts due to the State”, Festshrift Ap. Georgiades (2006)

- Contributor at Sweet & Maxwell, “European Cross-Border Estate Planning”, Chapter “Greece”.

- Several legal articles and contributions in various law magazines and other editions

CONFERENCES

- Participation at various seminars and presentations

LANGUAGES

- GREEK

- ENGLISH

- GERMAN

- SPANISH