Foreword
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Greek Business Law
A Handbook for Businesses and Legal Practitioners
or commercial litigation, which would not normally find their way into typical
business/commercial law books, have been integrated into the series’ defini-
tion of business law to reflect their strong relevance to the way a business oper-
ates and is regulated.
“Greek Business Law: A Handbook for Businesses and Legal Practitioners”
has
drawn, to a large extent, on the firm’s everyday commercial and business ex-
perience. Clearly, it is a handbook that is not exhaustive in terms of either scope
or each chapter’s subject matter. There are areas that have been put aside to
be dealt with in a later edition; and there are sections whose degree of detail
could arguably be greater. Be that as it may, my objective has been to provide
a reasonably sufficient degree of detail for a book that needs to strike a good
balance between being a reference work and a handbook with a voluminous
subject matter that cannot be dealt with in its entirety nor in substantial detail.
In this context, the objective of this book is to cover most key areas of Greek
business law in a clear, informative and succinct manner without following
strict rules of scholarly writing (e.g. footnotes and references) or covering every
possible aspect of Greek business law.
My thanks go to all my colleagues at the firmwho have worked with me in ear-
lier drafts of parts of this book or have providedme with input for certain chap-
ters. I particularly wish to thank my partners Tom Kyriakopoulos, Ioanna Lazari-
dou and Konstantina Soultati, and our senior associates Iro Stamataki and Eleni
Pitsa. I am especially grateful to our associate, Irene Sartzetaki, for her valuable
assistance throughout the preparation of this volume.
Yannis Kelemenis
