OVERVIEW
Our top-ranked Employment, Immigration & Global Mobility team offers unified counsel across employment law, business immigration, executive compensation, and private-wealth mobility. We advise leading international employers, investors, and mobile individuals on the full lifecycle of the employment relationship and across the complete range of cross-border people issues — from workforce restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, collective labour matters and regulatory compliance to talent deployment and residence planning.
What sets us apart is the integration of our legal, tax, and regulatory capabilities — working in close collaboration with our Private Wealth team where cross-border mobility intersects with wealth structuring and estate planning — enabling us to deliver commercially driven, operationally seamless advice that reflects how our clients’ businesses actually work. With a strong international orientation and decades of experience advising global enterprises in Greece on complex employment matters, we have been consistently recognised for the past 20 years by the leading directories as a first-choice team in our field.
Our membership in L&E Global, the premier worldwide network of employment lawyers representing employers, ensures our clients receive consistent, coordinated counsel wherever their workforce operates.
Experience
Employment
We advise employers across all phases of the employment relationship — from hiring and onboarding through to terminations, restructurings, and plant closures. Our team combines deep regulatory knowledge with a practical understanding of how businesses operate day to day.
We draft and review employment contracts, employee handbooks and employer policies; advise on working-time arrangements, leave entitlements, and disciplinary processes. We also handle independent contractor classification assessments, workplace investigations, and discrimination and harassment claims. On the transactional side, we deliver employment due diligence and integration support in M&A, guide workforce restructurings and voluntary exit schemes, and advise on transfers of business and outsourcing under Greek and EU law.
We design and review executive compensation and benefits packages, bonus and incentive schemes, equity incentive plans, and non-compete and confidentiality arrangements. Our advisory work further extends to collective bargaining, HR compliance audits, remote work and hybrid work policies, and anti-harassment frameworks — helping clients build resilient, compliant workplaces in an environment of intensifying regulatory scrutiny.
Our expertise in employment law combined with our unrivalled experience in litigation, allows us not only to represent clients in litigation of employee claims proceedings but also on a pre-emptive basis, whenever there is an emerging risk of contentiousness.
We often join forces with other practices of our firm, such as our corporate law, tax & accounting and data protection & cybersecurity practices, to deliver comprehensive solutions whenever a multi-disciplinary approach is required to better safeguard our clients’ interests.
These diverse teams, along with social security experts and accountants, help our clients to comply with the formalities related to recruitment, termination and other changes in employment, on a daily basis.
Business Immigration
In an increasingly mobile workforce environment, immigration strategy is a critical enabler of business growth, talent deployment and transaction readiness. We help employers navigate this complexity with clarity, foresight and operational precision.
We advise multinational corporations and high-growth businesses on all aspects of business immigration and global executive mobility in Greece, across multi-jurisdictional projects. We manage sponsor and employer registrations, investment- and work-related residence permit applications and renewals for investors, senior executives and key personnel, including the EU Blue Card, the Intra-Corporate Transfer (ICT) and other special categories of permits, coordinating with trusted foreign counsel where needed. Our team handles right-to-work checks, home and host employment documentation, and all compliance questions; designs policies to prevent illegal working; and delivers audits, training and day-to-day advisory support. We advise on remote work and digital nomad arrangements, and support transactions by conducting immigration due diligence and post-deal integration, ensuring continuity of sponsorship and status.
Mobility, Tax Residence & Immigration
We advise individuals and families on the tax and legal implications of relocating to or from Greece, as well as on broader questions of residence, domicile and international mobility. Our work includes the implementation of change-of-residence strategies, access to residency regimes and incentives, and the coordination of tax, regulatory and immigration requirements.
