Greece

Firm overview

The tax framework is being constantly transformed through the incorporation of international and EU rules, and best practices promoting transparency and combating tax avoidance. This is taking place amidst ever-present efforts to enhance tax collection and enforcement. Our top tier tax & accounting practice—consisting of a team of over 40 experts with academic backgrounds in law, economics and accounting—is ideally positioned to help clients address the challenges created by this environment. Combining the transactional expertise of a leading, internationally-oriented, law firm with our experience in tax and accountancy services, we offer our clients comprehensive solutions for complying, creating added value through managing tax impact, and understanding the critical tax considerations of innovative transactions.

We cover all tax areas, from transactional advisory, to preparation, to filing of tax returns. Our clients count on us to be their trusted advisor, whether they want to run by us advice on tax issues related to their day-to-day business, receive guidance on how to navigate a tax audit or obtain sophisticated cross-border structuring advice. Our tax advisors have specialized industry experience in a variety of business sectors; they can also draw upon a top-notch group of experts to form the right team in order to assist clients on those matters. We organize seminars for our clients’ staff, keep them up-to-date on significant changes and act as their business partner by ensuring they have the tools to achieve and remain safe and transparent. Also, where required, we deploy novel solutions to help them manage the tax risks of new business challenges. A highly specialized tax team forms part of our private clients practice.

Firm overview

Dryllerakis Law Firm, for more than 40 years, offers its clients the optimum and most comprehensive legal advice in all fields of business Law and provides them with the best and most effective litigation strategy.

The firm has organized special, dedicated teams covering the core areas of Corporate Law and M&As,
Tax Law and Competition Law, offering a boutique operation. There is a strong litigation and arbitration team, with a long-standing experience before all Greek courts (including the Supreme Courts), as well as with an extensive involvement in local and international arbitrations. The clientele consists mainly of international clients.

The firm has a strong knowledge of the corporate world and industry sectors and a solid understanding of the surrounding business environment and of its clients' needs.
The fact that most of the firm's senior partners participate in the Board of Directors of several leading Greek companies (mostly affiliates of multinationals), is a clear evidence of its clients’ trust and an important asset for the optimum combination of legal and business aspects.

Firm overview

For another year, our Greek Tax Team continued to expand, hiring more people and establishing further itself as the biggest tax firm in Greece, both in terms of people (current headcount of 315 tax professionals) and of revenues.

Our firm provides cross border tax advisory services through our international tax professionals and our strong TP practice, the latter being the largest in Greece and awarded the title of National TP Firm of the Year 12 times since 2009. Our specialized transaction tax professionals are recognized as leaders, both in terms of complexity of transactions undertaken and quality of support offered. By providing services throughout the entire transaction life cycle, spanning from tax due diligence on potential targets and tax structuring of the deal to post-closing implementation and post-acquisition integration of targets into the buyer’s group structure, they have assisted in the successful completion of major transactions, always within the clients’ commercial constraints and strategies.

EY’s tax controversy and litigation services team has been established as the leading big-4 firm in this field as well in Greece, by managing high-profile cases (including mass-litigations), some of which have triggered break-through Supreme Court decisions changing set jurisprudence.

Finally, EY acts as the permanent tax expert advisor to the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), while regularly offers opinions to the Greek Independent Authority for Public Revenues re tax rules’ implementation.

Our day-to-day practice demonstrates that our core priority is the delivery of exceptional client service by being connected, responsive and insightful. In addition to remaining trusted advisors to our clients, we focus on thinking and acting globally and across service lines. The above competitive advantages have led to our dominant positioning and reputation in the Greek tax market and underpin our constant strive to create a better working world.

Firm overview

While we come from different backgrounds and cultures, our values are what we have in common. They guide how we work with our clients and each other, inform the type of work we do, and hold us accountable to do our best. They govern our actions and determine our success.

Our values help us work towards our Purpose of building trust in society and solving important problems.

The trust that our clients, communities and our people place in PwC, and our high standards of ethical behaviour, are fundamental to everything we do. Our values underpin our Code of Conduct which is our frame of reference for the decisions we make every day. It's how we do business.

With offices in 151 countries and more than 364,000 people, we are among the leading professional services networks in the world. We help organisations and individuals create the value they are looking for, by delivering quality in Assurance, Tax and Advisory services.