AmChamGR and its Energy Committee @ a working Luncheon with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources, Francis R. Fannon & Ambassador Pyatt

AmCham Energy Committee members and representatives held a fruitful dialogue on energy security and regional energy cooperation issues during a working luncheon with Francis R. Fannon, Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Energy Resources, U.S Department of State, Geoffreey Pyatt, US Ambassador to Greece, and senior officers of the US Embassy Athens. As Assistant Secretary F. Fannon said, this second visit to…

Looking to the Future
By Business Partners | May-Jun, 2019

Nikolas Bakatselos, President and CEO of Pyramis Metallourgia and member of AmCham’s Board of Directors, announces his candidacy to be AmCham’s next President and talks about his vision for promoting entrepreneurship, competitiveness, sustainable growth and a business friendly environment in Greece.   Greece has recently exited the memorandum era, during which strict economic policies were implemented…

AmChamGR New Executive Committee & BoD

The new Elected Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce The annual General Assembly Meeting of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce took place on Tuesday, June 27, 2019. The election of the new 25 members for the Board of Directors was included in the agenda of the meeting. The new…

Law 89: An Attractive Regime for Shared Services Centers in Greece
By Constantine Poulios, Direcotr, Tax and Outsourcing, Grant Thornton Greece | Business Partners, Mar-Apr 2019

The so-called “Law 89 regime,” among the least known investment incentive pieces of legislation available in Greece, is there to promote the establishment of shared services centers in Greece, i.e. Greek entities providing specific back-office services to other, usually foreign, entities of the same group. Since 2005—when the Greek government successfully transformed regimes such as…