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Emmanouil Savoidakis

Partner

Emmanouil is a partner in our Corporate & Commercial, IT and Energy Law practices, where he leads our advisory, corporate and contractual work for several domestic and multinational companies.

 

Emmanouil is widely respected for his commercial insight and he puts this to work in advising clients and developing practical solutions in matters relating to corporate and commercial law across several industries, with an emphasis on EU law, corporate formation and governance matters.

Commercial & Corporate

Emmanouil uses his business acumen and legal expertise to advise many of our large corporate clients on their day-to-day needs, ensuring they remain compliant, while helping them to achieve the most effective commercial arrangements. His portfolio features many leading international businesses including Abbott, Bausch Health, Bosch Rexroth, and Sun Chemical.

Recent Notable Cases

  • Advised Bausch Health on its group restructuring through intragroup share transfer transactions and subsequent mergers.
  • Advised a major medical devices company in relation to the commercial launch of an innovative diabetes care product line, providing guidance on issues relating to GDPR, Internet of Things, regulatory licensing, antitrust, etc.

Energy

Emmanouil advises clients on the full spectrum of energy related issues including compliance, electricity, and natural gas regulation, financing and licensing requirements of Renewable Energy Projects and relevant transactional work. He has a considerable track record coordinating due diligence projects and acting for energy players in their compliance obligations towards regulatory authorities.

Recent Notable Cases

  • Acting for the largest national oil and gas company of Ukraine, in their effort to enter the Greek natural gas market.
  • Acting for an energy trading company, in connection with its activities in the Greek energy and natural gas market.
  • Advised a Greek Bank on a due diligence report, in connection with the financing of a 40MW wind farm owed by a major Greek energy Group.
  • Advising a major developer of utility scale photovoltaic projects in Greece Africa and Middle East across the range of their corporate, commercial and regulatory matters.

IT, Telecommunications & Internet

Emmanouil is highly active in technology-rich sectors, supporting both technology multinationals and start-ups to navigate in the waters of electronic communications, data protection, cybersecurity, content regulation, intellectual property, telecommunications, and e-commerce law. His solid academic background is underpinned by a deep understanding of the IT industry and novel technologies. In his capacity as a certified privacy professional, he advises and represents clients with regulatory bodies and Courts.

Recent Notable Cases

  • Advising Starlink / SpaceX in connection with their recent commercial launch of broadband satellite internet services in Greece.
  • Acting for Netdata, a tech start-up that has developed a performance and health monitoring solution for systems and applications.
  • Providing full legal support to a software house developing conversational AI solutions to corporate clients.
  • Acting as appointed DPO for several software companies with a domestic and international presence.

Memberships

  • Heraklion Bar Association

Certifications

  • Data Protection Officer (DPO) (ISO/IEC 17024)

Education

  • LLM Eur., LMU Munich
  • LLB, School of Law, University of Thessaloniki (summa cum laude)