Following an invitation by the host of S.E. Europe Legal Group’s annual meeting and IENE’ s Secretary General ,Mr. Gus Papamichalopoulos of the KG Law firm, the Executive Director of IENE , presented an overview of IENE’s activities and organization in a special regional meeting of the Group which was held in Athens on February 15. In his presentation, Costis Stambolis, who is also IENE’s Deputy Chairman, briefed the participants, who between them represented ten of S.E. Europe’s largest and most active law firms, of IENE’s mission and vision citing several examples of the Institute’s research and analysis work as well as its involvement in organizing an ongoing series of energy related conferences and workshops in the different countries of the regionFollowing an invitation by the host of S.E. Europe Legal Group’s annual meeting and IENE’ s Secretary General ,Mr. Gus Papamichalopoulos of the KG Law firm, the Executive Director of IENE , presented an overview of IENE’s activities and organization in a special regional meeting of the Group which was held in Athens on February 15. In his presentation, Costis Stambolis, who is also IENE’s Deputy Chairman, briefed the participants, who between them represented ten of S.E. Europe’s largest and most active law firms, of IENE’s mission and vision citing several examples of the Institute’s research and analysis work as well as its involvement in organizing an ongoing series of energy related conferences and workshops in the different countries of the region.
South East Europe Legal Group (‘’SEE Legal’’) is a regional organization of 10 leading independent national law firms covering the twelve jurisdictions of South East Europe. Established in 2003, SEE Legal is the largest regional legal force with more than 450 lawyers and an impressive client base of multinational corporations, financial institutions and governmental bodies. Over the last two decades, the member firms of SEE Legal have worked on major investment transactions and have successfully closed many of the landmark deals in the region, including some key energy projects.
The energy sector features highly in SEE Legal Group‘s activities as the member firms between them handle energy related projects valued in many billion euros. Last year SEE Legal published the first edition of the South East Europe Energy Guide. This is a practical guide which has proved to be an extremely helpful desk-book resource for in-house counsels, industry professionals and law firm practitioners in dealing with complex and highly regulated energy sector relations in the twelve jurisdictions of South East Europe. Furthermore, this guide highlights all the important aspects from the partners experience in the energy sector, such as market structures, licensing, price regulations, access to the grid, etc. This book is not meant to be a treatise on any particular country‘s energy legislation and is not exhaustive to the point of eliminating the need of professional advice, but it certainly serves its main purpose- to raise reader’s attention as to the complexity of energy legislation and assist him in identifying the issues that might influence investment and business decisions.
Present in the Athens annual meeting
were representatives from all SEE Legal groups’ offices which included the
following law firms:
Kalo &
Associates (Albania), Maric &
Co (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Boyanov &
Co.( Bulgaria), Divjak, Topic
& Bahtijarevic (Croatia), Kyriakides
Georgopoulos Law Firm (Greece),
BDK Advokati
/ Attorneys at Law(Montenegro),
Polenak Law
Firm (FYROM), Nestor Nestor
Diculescu Kingston Petersen (Romania),
BDK Advokati
/ Attorneys at Law (Serbia),
Selih &
Partners (Slovenia), Kolcuoglu Demirkan(Turkey).
For further information on SEE Legal you may visit www.seelegal.org
