rigorios Alekos Law Office specializes in criminal law and, in particular, in handling financial crime, corporate criminal law and risk management cases.
The excellent professional training, the ongoing updating on the national and international legal developments as well as the long experience guarantee the provision of high-quality legal services to natural persons or entities at all stages of criminal proceedings constitute the most reliable legal advisor.
Property Crimes
Corporate criminal liability
Criminal activities money laundering and terrorism funding
Corruption
Negligence
European Arrest Warrant – Extradition and mutual assistance in criminal cases
rigorios Alekos was born in Athens in 1982 and became member of the Athens Bar Association in 2006. He graduated in 2004 from the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2018 he obtained the Master’s degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure with honors from the University of Athens, whilst in 2020 he is a Criminal Law PhD candidate in at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2021 he was elected as an associate professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the School of Officers of the Hellenic Police. He is also a Data Protection Officer certified by Τüv Nord - Tüv Hellas having been hired by a number of companies as a Data Protection Officer.
He has participated in numerous law conferences and his articles were hosted in legal journals, being at the same time an active member of the Hellenic Society of Criminal Law and of the Hellenic Criminologists Association.
In 2007 was established the Grigorios Alekos Law Office. In 2008 he became Chief Legal Adviser in all the companies of the Klaoudatos Group, while in 2017 he was selected as Legal Advisor by one of the leading companies engaged in the pharmaceutical sector.
He practices criminal law since 2006 with special emphasis on financial crime. He has attended as defense lawyer and civil party in major criminal cases in Greece, of special public interest and has long experience in all financial crime specialization fields and much more so in such of corporate criminal liability as well as of fraud, embezzlement, officers’ bribery, criminal activities money laundering, breach of trust, breach of competition and environmental law provisions, of the tax and criminal law, the customs Code, the European an international arrest warrant, the extradition and judicial assistance as well as of terrorism.
He speaks Greek, English and Italian.
Having established the office in 2007, Grigorios Alekos, was soon recognized in his field, by reason of his active personality, his anthropocentric approach in combination with his thorough scientific training and, as a result, our office undertakes serious criminal cases and our legal advice services are regularly retained by major businessmen.
The philosophy of the office is based on three axes: Dynamic approach, professional integrity and full response to the needs of the client. Our office has been engaged in all fields being specialized in the handling of criminal cases, having undertaken and successfully processed cases of special public interest (Conspiracy of the Nuclei of Fire – Phoenix Plan, triple manslaughter in Eretria), being, however, focused on the financial crime (Criminal Circuit 2) and the corporate criminal law.
Over the years, our office has managed to establish the reputation of a high-standard law firm perfectly adapted to the needs of each client, showing excellent professional consistency.
The extensive knowledge of the compliance procedures, internal investigations, partnership procedures and competitive practices as well as the long involvement in the management and receivables collection are the reasons why our office is regularly selected for the provision of advices in the context of corporate criminal liability, which is a particularly important area of our concern.
At the same time, our office enables our clients to appeal not only to national courts but also to the European Court of Human Rights as well as to International Organizations.
Our office collaborates with experienced and competent Lawyers, Notaries and Bailiffs throughout Greece in order to meet your needs and offer you high quality legal services.
Sofia Dambali
Thessaloniki Lawyer
Ifigeneia Liatsou
Athens Notary Public
Evangelos Gogakos
Thessaloniki Lawyer
Maria Gogakou
Chalkidiki Notary Public
Charithea Piskopianou
Cyclades Lawyer
Christos Gitsas
Athens Notary Public
Charlambos Alekos
Athens First Instance Court Bailiff
In this section you will be informed about the current jurisprudential issues and the publications of our office.
In its judgment in Case C-292/23, Fiscalía Europea v I.R.O. and F.J.L.R., the Court of Justice of the European Union held that procedural acts of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) which are capable of producing binding legal effects vis-à-vis third parties must be amenable to judicial review by the competent national courts.
y its judgment in Karakasidis v. Greece of 16 December 2025 (Application no. 46737/20), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found Greece in violation of the presumption of innocence, censuring the domestic courts’ practice of impermissibly shifting onto the accused the burden of proving his innocence, thereby undermining in practice the guarantee enshrined in Article 6 § 2 of the Convention.
In its judgment in Case C-548/21, CG v. Bezirkshauptmannschaft Landeck, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) examined the delicate balance between the protection of personal data and the necessity of effective criminal prosecution within the context of police investigations.
