POTAMITISVEKRIS’ Partner and Head of our EU, Competition and Antitrust Practice, Dimitrios Loukas, in cooperation with academic associate Konstantinos Lamprinoudis, authored a contribution to the Greek legal journal “Business and Company Law Review” (DEE), titled: “Legal professional privilege is extended to all legal advice”.

In this contribution, the authors provide insights into the recent judgment of the CJEU (Grand Chamber) in case C-694/2020, recognizing an extended protection for legal professional privilege in light of article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Although the judgment was delivered – upon a preliminary reference – in the context of proceedings related to administrative cooperation in the field of taxation, its ramifications on the investigation powers of competition authorities are expected to be rather significant.