About Us

Who we are

Tsamichas law firm is a leading Athens-based firm providing legal services to all branches of law to clients of various scales. Through a yearly experience we have achieved a high-performance level and personal service, fully equipped with adaptability, enthusi-asm, ethics, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. We have successfully handled many cases from individual issues and family businesses to national and international entities, providing modern, proactive, and risk mitigation solutions.

Our Clients

Our law firm has provided and still offers legal services to contractors of significant large public works and developments in the Greek market, especially in the fields of transport, construction, technology, and energy; such as being the legal advisor of Hitachi Rail STS in Greece overwatching their significant national projects such as the Thessaloniki Metro and its extension to Kalamaria. Our office cooperates with renowned foreign law firms to handle legal issues with European-International dimensions.

What we do

The office is recognized as an expert in practices of International Commercial & Corporate Law, Competition Law, Energy & Sustainability and Civil Law, etc. Additionally, the office has an organized tax, financial affairs, business organization, and public affairs departments.

Our Network

Today, our office due to its special involvement with Italy represents leading Italian companies in Greece. Also, it maintains an international network of partners in Italy, Brussels, Finland, Spain, Luxemburg, Armenia, Turkey, and more

History

Our relationship with the legal science goes back to the end of the 19th century with Ioannis-Eustratios Tsamichas (1896), continued by Spyridon Tsamichas (1942) and our office to this day continues this tradition with the successful, continuous and tireless provision of our legal services

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1991

Our law firm was founded in 1991 and provides legal services in all branches of law.

1993-1997

Our firm has taken on the legal representation of IItaltel Sistemi Hellas S.A., a company of historical importance for European mobile telephony, throughout Southeastern Europe.

1994

Our law firm established on behalf of ERICSON and Italtel S.p.A., EKIT ELLAS - TELEPHONIA MOBILE CONSULTANTS LTD, a company that granted high expertise and technology services to all mobile phone companies in Southeastern Europe.

1995

Our law firm constitutes the subsidiary of Italtel Sistemi S.p.A., the company that built all the mobile phone infrastructure in Greece on behalf of TELE STET HELLAS and Telecom Italia Mobile S.p.A.

1996

Our law firm handled on behalf of Calcestruzzi S.p.A. and AGET HERAKLIS a litigation before the Greek Courts and the Competition Commission on free competition issues.

1997

Our law firm granted its legal assistance to the merger of EKIT HELLAS - MOBILE TELEPHONE INSTALLATION CONSULTANTS LTD with the business unit of Italtel Sistemi Impianti e Progettazioni S.p.A.; Result of this merger was the creation ITALTEL HELLAS S.A. SISTEMI TELECOMUNICAZIONI, a leading company for mobile telephony at the European level..

1999

Our Law Firm constitutes Italtel Hellas S.p.A. Branch Office in Armenia, based in Yerevan, for the construction of the mobile phone network in Armenia on behalf of COSMOTE S.A.

2000-2009

Our firm has taken on the legal representation of SIEMENS NST, a leading telecommunications company in Southeastern Europe.

2001

Our law firm granted its legal services for the participation of ANSALDOBREDA SPA - Finmeccanica SpA Group in the tender for the "TRAM Serio Athens" project, the awarding of the project to ANSALDOBREDA SPA - Finmeccanica SpA Group until its completion and handover to the contractor TRAM SA in 2007.

2002

Our law firm granted legal assistance for the absorption of ITALTEL HELLAS S.A. TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS by SIEMENS INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION SERVISES S.A. with the acquisition of 100 percent of its share capital. From 2002 to the present, he is legal advisor to ANSALDOBREDA SPA in Greece as part of the supply of 18 trains for the Thessaloniki metro.

2006 (i)

Our law firm is managing, on behalf of Hitachi Rail STS S.p.A., the contract for the design, construction and commissioning of the Thessaloniki metro, one of the largest public works in Greece to date. Our law firm has provided its legal services since the said company's participation in the tender, the procedure and development of the tender, the awarding of the project to Hitachi Rail STS S.p.A. (a member of the contracting consortium) and the legal support of the contract with HELLENIC METRO SA to date.

2006 (ii)

Our office granted its legal assistance in granting the incorporation of its Brunch in Greece under the name ANSALDO TRASPORTI SISTEMI FERROVIARI SPA for the purpose of performing all works, including activities related to the contract for the construction of the Thessaloniki metro signed with HELLENIC METRO.

2007 (i)

Our firm managed, on behalf of ANSALDO STS S.p.A., the contract for the supply and commissioning of the Level 1 ETCS system on 82 trains of ERGOSE S.A.'s railway rolling stock, from the award of the project in 2007 until its delivery in 2018.

2007 (ii)

Our firm provided legal assistance in licensing the establishment of a subsidiary in Greece of ANSALDO SEGNALAMENTO FERROVIARIO S.p.A., for the purpose of executing and managing the contract with ERGOSE for the supply of the ETCS level 1 system for trains.

2009

Our firm provided legal support for the merger as a result of the incorporation of "ANSALDO TRASPORTI SISTEMI FERROVIARI Spa" by "ANSALDO STS Spa," in order to expand the activities of execution of works in general, including the activities of execution of the contract related to the Thessaloniki Metro and the execution and management of the contract with ERGOSE for the supply of the ETCS System, Level 1.

2018

Our Law Firm has granted its legal services for Hitachi Rail STS SpA's participation in the tender for the SUPPLY OF THE INSTALLATION AND COMMISSIONING OF THE SIGNALING SYSTEM FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE THESSALONIKIS METRO TO KALAMARIA, the awarding of the project to Hitachi Rail STS SpA, and our Law Firm's legal support of the contract with HELLENIC METRO SA to date.

2020

From 2020 to the present, our firm has offered its legal services to Industria Italiana Autobus S.p.A., a company that manufactures and supplies city buses.

2021 (i)

Our law firm provided its legal services for the participation of CITELUM ITALIA SRL in the tender for the "Energy-saving upgrading of the public lighting system" in the Municipality of West Lesvos.

2021 (ii)

Our law firm has granted its legal services for the participation of CITELUM ITALIA SRL in the tender for the "Energy upgrading of street and urban lighting facilities and infrastructure" of the Municipality of Preveza (Region of Epirus).

2021 (iii)

Our firm haconcused its legal services for the participation of CITELUM ITALIA SRL in the tender for "Energy upgrading - automation and maintenance of public lighting systems in the national and provincial network of the Peloponnese Region."

2022

Our law firm provided its legal services for Hitachi Rail STS SpA's participation in the tender "Restoration of ETCS system on one hundred and twenty (120) traction units of railway rolling stock" issued by GAIAOSE S.A

2023 (i)

Our law firm provided legal assistance to HITACHI RAIL STS SPA in its participation in the tender "SUPPLY OF RAILWAY MATERIAL FOR THE THESSALONIKI METRO AND ITS EXTENSION TO CALAMARIA," which resulted in HELLENIC METRO being awarded the construction, supply and commissioning of 15 new trains for the Thessaloniki Metro and its extension to Kalamaria.

2023 (ii)

In addition, our law firm has provided legal assistance to the Italian company INDUSTRIA ITALIANA AUTOBUS SPA for its participation in the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport's tender for the supply of 200 12-meter EURO VI compressed natural gas (CNG) simple city buses.