The law firm "OVVADIAS S. NAMIAS – LAW FIRM" was established in 2006 and is currently one of the leading law firms in the fields of criminal and mainly financial criminal law, providing legal services to natural persons and legal entities both at a litigation and at a consulting level.
The firm has successfully dealt with major criminal cases of national and global interest for crimes relating to the banking sector, stock-exchange, tax, customs office sector, crimes relating to the legalisation of profits from illegal activities (money laundering), the environment, personal data and sports.
Ovvadias S. Namias, is the Managing Partner of "OVVADIAS S. NAMIAS LAW FIRM", and provides consulting services and in-court assistance in criminal cases of fraud, bribery, tax evasion, customs office offenses.
Vasileios K. Petropoulos is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Athens, and he is a Partner at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm since 2010.
Angeliki A. Asprogeraka - Griva is a Partner at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm and she has extensive experience in cases relating to medical criminal law, corporate criminal law, money laundering, corruption, and bribery.
Eleni I. Tsakali is a Partner at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm, and she has extensive experience in cases involving corporate penal law, breach of trust, fraud, embezzlement, bribery, and money laundering. Eleni is fluent in English, French and German.
Anna D. Tsamasfyra is a Senior Associate at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm, and she has experience in cases relating to money laundering, corruption, bribery, and fraud. Anna has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 2014.
Ilias V. Spyropoulos is a Senior Associate at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm and has been involved in numerous cases, predominantly related to fraud, breach of trust, bribery, money laundering, extradition, medical negligence and mutual legal assistance.
Ovvadias S. Namias, is the Managing Partner of “OVVADIAS S. NAMIAS LAW FIRM”, and provides consulting services and in-court assistance in criminal cases of fraud (breach of trust, corruption), bribery, tax evasion, customs office offenses, stock exchange offences, insider trading, market abuse, legalization of profits from illegal activities (money laundering), personal data, medical negligence as well as in cases of European criminal law, extradition and mutual legal assistance.
Ovvadias has graduated from the Law School of the University of Athens in 1987 and concluded his thesis in Penal Law at the University of Bonn in Germany, with a grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia (1992).
He lectured Penal Law at the Law School of the University of Athens as a Special Scientific Associate (2002-2006). Ovvadias was an Attorney at Law of the National Bank of Greece specialising in financial penal issues from 1999 to 2006.
He was awarded the Babakos Prize by the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association in 2001.
Ovvadias has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1993 and a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association from 2004 up to 2022. He is also the President of the General Assembly of the Jewish Community of Athens.
Ovvadias has published his thesis and numerous articles in legal journals. He lectures regularly at conferences on criminal law and criminal procedure. The full list of his publications and his lectures is available at the following link: https://www.namiaslaw.gr/publications
Ovvadias Namias has been ranked in Chambers & Partners as a leading lawyer in Greece for White-Collar Crime for the years 2018 – 2025.
He is fluent in English, German and French.
Email: [email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ovvadias-ovis-namias-0929b725/
Publications: Ovvadias S. Namias, Managing Partner
Vasileios K. Petropoulos is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Athens, and he is a Partner at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm since 2010.
Vasileios has vast experience in cases relating to banking offences, stock exchange offences, internal corporate investigations, fraud, breach of trust, bribery, money laundering, extradition, mutual legal assistance, and corruption.
Vasileios received his legal education at the Universities of Athens (LL.B.) Munich (PhD in Criminal Law,) and Zurich (PhD in Capital Market Law), receiving a grant from the Greek state. He concluded his studies at the University of Munich (Post Doc “Habilitation”) in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, European and International Criminal Law and Financial Criminal Law.
Vasileios was an academic scholar in capital market law at the CEGLA Institute of the Buchmann Faculty of Law of the University of Tel Aviv (Spring Semester 2010). He has been lecturing at the Hellenic Open University since 2018 in the post graduate program “Forensic and Criminal aspects of corruption, of financial and organized crime” in the module “Criminal handling of corruption and organized crime”. From 2015 to 2020 he lectured Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the Neapolis University of Paphos (Cyprus). Since 2024, he has also been teaching the course “Bioethics and Criminal Law” as part of the Inter-Institutional Master’s Programme in Bioethics at the University of Crete.
Vasileios has published several monographies and numerous articles in legal journals. He has participated in several legislative committees, and he is a member of the drafting committee of the legal journal of the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association, “Nova Criminalia”. He lectures at conferences on criminal law and criminal procedure. The full list of his publications and his lectures is available at the following link: (link)
Vasileios has been participating in the BoD of the Hellenic Association of Penal Law since 2017 (currently as treasurer) and he was called to the Patras Bar in 2003. Further memberships: Hellenic Criminal Bar Association, European Criminal Bar Association, International Association of Penal Law.
He is fluent in German and English and conversational in French and Hebrew.
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasileios-petropoulos-b72a42137/
Angeliki A. Asprogeraka -Griva is a Partner at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm and she has extensive experience in cases relating to medical penal law, corporate penal law, money laundering, corruption, and bribery.
Angeliki graduated from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and concluded her post-graduate studies at the Penal Department of the Law School of the University of Athens. She is also a graduate of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Law School of the University of Athens.
She has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1996 as well as a member of the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association and of the Hellenic Association of Penal Law.
She is fluent in English.
Email: [email protected]
Ilias V. Spyropoulos is a Senior Associate at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm and has been involved in numerous cases, predominantly related to fraud, breach of trust, bribery, money laundering, extradition, medical negligence and mutual legal assistance. He is also active in the field of criminal internal investigations.
Ilias graduated from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, from which he also obtained his LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. He then received his Ph.D. in Criminal Law from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in the field of medical negligence. He lectures as a Special Scientific Associate in Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the Democritus University of Thrace.
He has been a member of the Athens Bar Association and the Munich Bar Association since 2011. He is also a member of the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association and of the Hellenic Association of Penal Law.
Ilias has published several articles in legal journals.
He is fluent in English and German and conversational in French.
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Anna D. Tsamasfyra is a Senior Associate at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm, and she has experience in cases relating to money laundering, corruption, bribery, and fraud.
Anna graduated from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and then worked as a trainee at the Prosecution Office of the Athens Court of Appeal. She completed her traineeship at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm and joined the firm as an associate.
Anna has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 2014.
She is fluent in English and in German.
Email: [email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-tsamasfyra-833785193
Ilias V. Spyropoulos is a Senior Associate at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm and has been involved in numerous cases, predominantly related to fraud, breach of trust, bribery, money laundering, extradition, medical negligence and mutual legal assistance. He is also active in the field of criminal internal investigations.
Ilias graduated from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, from which he also obtained his LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. He then received his Ph.D. in Criminal Law from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in the field of medical negligence. He lectures as a Special Scientific Associate in Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the Democritus University of Thrace.
He has been a member of the Athens Bar Association and the Munich Bar Association since 2011. He is also a member of the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association and of the Hellenic Association of Penal Law.
Ilias has published several articles in legal journals.
He is fluent in English and German and conversational in French.
Email: [email protected]
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilias-spyropoulos-550509201
Publications: Ilias V. Spyropoulos, Senior Associate
