Commercial contracts are treated, in a surprising number of businesses, as paperwork — a formality to get signed so the actual work can start. In practice, the supply agreement, the distribution contract, or the SaaS terms you sign today are the rulebook that governs what happens when a supplier misses a delivery, a distributor underperforms, or a partner wants to walk away early. Badly drafted commercial agreements do not usually cause problems on day one. They cause problems eighteen months later, when the relationship sours and both sides discover the contract does not actually say what everyone assumed it said. A commercial contract lawyer in Greece drafts for the dispute that might follow, not only for the deal being signed.
Where a contract is silent — or ambiguous — the default rules of the Greek Civil Code fill the gap, and those defaults are not always the outcome either party would have chosen if they had thought about it at signing. Liability caps, termination notice periods, force majeure, governing law and dispute forum are the clauses businesses skip past fastest, and the clauses that decide the outcome when something actually goes wrong. A contract that has not addressed these points deliberately has not avoided the risk — it has just deferred the decision to whichever party has the stronger negotiating position, or the courts, later.
"A contract found online and lightly edited is not a bespoke agreement — it is a set of assumptions written by someone who has never met your business, your counterparty, or your risk tolerance." Where a foreign template is being used, a commercial contract lawyer in Greece checks which clauses Greek law will not enforce as written.
We draft and review commercial contracts the way an in-house General Counsel does — because that is the role this practice is built on. A contract has to be legally sound, but it also has to be usable by the commercial team that will actually operate under it day to day: clear enough that sales, procurement and operations can read it without calling legal every time, and precise enough that when a dispute does arise, the answer is in the document rather than in argument. Send the draft and we will mark what will not hold in Greece.
Not just drafting
Risk allocation, not just wording
Every clause allocates risk between the parties, whether or not anyone intended it to. We draft with that allocation deliberate and visible, not buried in boilerplate neither side reads.
The default rules
When contracts are silent
Greek Civil Code default provisions fill any gap a contract leaves — and those defaults are not always favourable. We make sure the important questions are answered on the page, not left to statute.
Governing law
Cross-border contracts
Contracts with foreign counterparties, or governed by English law rather than Greek law, are drafted and negotiated directly through our dual Greece / England & Wales qualification.
The real comparison
Templates vs. bespoke drafting
A downloaded template tells you what a contract usually looks like. It cannot tell you what your specific supplier relationship, deal structure or risk profile actually needs addressed.