As part of our firm’s commitment to ESG principles, the POTAMITISVEKRIS criminal law team provided pro bono legal representation before the First-Instance Criminal Court of Athens to eight minors who were victims of abuse, duress and endangerment. These minors were former residents of the renowned child protection foundation “Ark of the World” (“Kivotos”).
On November 14, 2024, after an extensive judicial process, five individuals—including the foundation’s prominent founder—were convicted on multiple charges. This outcome marks a pivotal judgment in the realm of child protection and the oversight of institutions tasked with caring for vulnerable minors.
Our team included Konstantinos Papadiamantis (Partner), Natalia Chrisagi (Senior Associate), Andreas Matsakas (Associate), and Evgenia Kordou (Associate).
This decision underscores the importance of safeguarding children’s rights and ensuring accountability within institutions designed to provide care and protection.

Our criminal litigation team has successfully represented and acquitted an executive of Credit Suisse against the accusation of fraud during the sale of structured products of a total value of 32 million euros. After 6 months of trial, the client was unanimously acquitted by the Piraeus Court of Appeal for felonies.
Our team was led by the head of our Civil & Criminal Litigation and Arbitration practice, Konstantinos Papadiamantis (Partner), with the assistance of Natalie Chrisagi (Senior Associate) and Evgenia Kordou (Associate).

Konstantinos Papadiamantis, Evgenia Kordou and Andreas Matsakas, members of our White-Collar Crime Team, successfully represented, achieving their acquittal, the founding members of a company, who had been accused of and at first instance (represented by another defense counsel) convicted of illegal copying, by computer, of the design of a subsequently registered trademark from the electronic file of the opposing company, which (design) was considered a professional secret, as well as of usurping a false certificate due to the submission of this design to the competent Trademark Service for its registration as a trademark.

Konstantinos Papadiamantis and Evgenia Kordou, successfully represented a charity, a jewelry manufacture company, and a jewelry designer in litigation proceedings before Athens Single and Multi – Member Courts regarding an application of interim measures and a lawsuit against our clients, requesting the Court to order cessation of production and distribution of a certain object and 500k € as indemnity. The Court issued a judgment in favor of our clients, rejecting in substance the application of interim measures of the plaintiffs. Subsequently, the lawsuit was withdrawn and the trial was dismissed.

Head of Litigation Konstantinos Papadiamantis and associate Evgenia Kordou, successfully represented, in a pro bono case, before the Athens Multi-member Court, the editor and a journalist of an investigation journalism site against claim for defamation by an investigated party.