Greek Business Law
A Handbook for Businesses and Legal Practitioners
VII
FOREWORD
Published under the auspices of Nomiki Bibliothiki, the Kelemenis & Co. Series
in Business Law aims to provide handbooks and monographs for businesses
and legal practitioners and do so in plain language and with a pragmatic ap-
proach. It is an initiative that has evolved beyond the firm’s numerous publica-
tions, in Greek and in English, over the past few years, which have communi-
cated some of the firm’s accumulated knowledge and experience of the prac-
tice of business law to a wider audience. Together with Nomiki Bibliothiki, we
have concluded that the time was ripe for the firm’s well-received publications
to go beyond legal and tax newsletters and alerts, and beyond articles in ref-
ereed journals and chapters in edited volumes, some of which have already
been published by prominent law publishers (e.g. Oxford University Press,
Cambridge University Press, Sweet & Maxwell). Indeed, the driving force be-
hind launching such a business law series, a novelty for the Greek legal setting,
is the need for publications in core areas of business law, which are written in a
straightforward and practical manner for both lawyers and non-lawyers with-
out compromising the key qualities expected of a legal publication. This is
the need that Nomiki Bibliothiki and Kelemenis & Co. have set out to tackle by
launching this new series.
The volumes of the series will be authored by lawyers working with Kelemenis
& Co., the target being that two to three volumes will be published annually in
areas that fall within the firm’s core expertise. To this end, three additional titles
are already in the pipeline, dealing with tax, employment, and energy regula-
tion respectively. The choice of language (i.e. Greek or English) of each volume
will primarily depend on the gap that the particular publication aims to bridge
and on the target readership; in the case of this first volume, for instance, it has
been assessed that an outline of Greek business law, which is written in English
and can reach out to a readership beyond the Greek business and legal com-
munity, is missing from the existing literature and that an English text can bet-
ter facilitate the access of businesses, domestic and foreign, and of foreign legal
practitioners to Greek business law. The approach that the series and this first
volume aim to serve is demonstrated by the broad definition given to business
law. Rather than being closely linked to commercial law (to which, of course,
it is), business law has been treated as a wider body of law that encompasses
all key areas of law that impact the operation of a business. In this context,
branches of law such as employment, tax, public procurement, data protection
