Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners

Head of Commercial Law and Corporate Law (including M&A) Practice. Other areas of practice: Product Liability/Safety, Consumer Law /ADR, Competition/Antitrust Law, Vertical Agreements (Agency, Distribution, etc.), Privatizations and Projects Structure, Securities.

Deputy Managing Partner. Dimitris Emvalomenos, Lawyer, LL.M., Accredited Mediator in Greece (Min. of Justice) and the UK (CEDR), is the Dep. Managing Partner at Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners Law Firm. Leader Partner on Commercial and Corporate cases, with attention to detail and project management capabilities, helping numerous international and Greek clients navigate complex commercial and corporate deals as well as high demanding disputes resolution. Articles on issues of his practice area are regularly published in international journals.

He has a long experience in Banking & Financial Law since the early 90s. He has assisted high profiled groups of companies and financial institutions in many complex and demanding cases, such as legal due diligences related to the listing of shares on the Athens Stock Exchange or to various kinds of M&As, financing of large projects and companies by loans of various types, syndicated loans, simple commercial loans, various bond issues relating to all the spectrum of establishment and operation of banks, legal opinions on a variety of complex banking issues, advising NPLs’ managing companies & working on securitizations of NPLs.

2002 -  onwards / Law Firm “Bahas, Gramatidis and Partners”, 26 Filellinon street, 105 58 Athens, Greece. Partner / Attorney at Law. Managing Partner 2017-2020, Dep. Managing Partner 2021. He specializes in the fields of Commercial Law (Contracts, Corporate, etc.), Product Liability /Safety, Consumer Law, Competition /Antitrust Law, Network Agreements (Agency, Distribution, etc.), M&As, Privatizations and Projects Structure, Securities /NPLs, Commercial Law Litigation, ADR /Mediation.

1990 – 2002 / Law Offices “Bahas, Gramatidis and Associates”, 9 Navarchou Nikodimou street, 105 58 Athens, Greece. Partner / Attorney at Law.

1989 - 1990 / Law Offices “Zepos & Zepos” (re-named to Zepos & Yannopoulos), (today) 280 Kifissias avenue, 152 32 Halandri, Attica, Greece. Attorney at Law. Commercial and Civil Law.

1987 - 1989 / Morland Navigation Company, 99 Mansell street, London E1, UK. Attorney at Law (Legal Department). Commercial Law, Maritime Law, International Commercial Arbitration.

Greek, English

Piraeus Bar Association

Greek Commercial Lawyers' Association

Competition Law Partnership

Greek Association for Arbitration

Greek Association of Law & Economics

Hellenic Association for Financial Law

International Bar Association (IBA) (SBL Committees C, L, M, S)

International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) (www.iadclaw.org)

European Justice Forum (EJF), Brussels (www.europeanjusticeforum.org), Correspondent for Greece

DRI Europe, the European Branch of DRI International (www.drieurope.org; www.dri.org), Country Chair - Greece

CEDR - MyCEDR Member (www.cedr.com)

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) – Associate (www.ciarb.org)

Swiss Chinese Law Association (SCLA) (www.cnsla.org)

Federation of Integrated Conflict Management (FICM-MCN) (www.ficmecosystem.com)

EODID Athens Mediation and Arbitration Organization (www.eodid.org)

Hellenic Union of Mediators - EED (www.eledi.gr)

Greek Mediators’ Association - SEDI (www.sedi.gr).

2020 / Accredited Mediator: - UK / Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), London. - Greece / Central Mediation Committee (KED), Ministry of Justice, Athens.

1987 - 1988 - 1989  / University of London, Queen Mary College, London, United Kingdom. - Master of Laws (LL.M) in “Commercial and Corporate Law”. - Additional postgraduate subjects of “International Commercial and Financial Law”.

1980 - 1987 / Law School of the Athens University, Athens, Greece. Bachelor of Law (magna cum laude). Greek Law: Civil, Commercial, Criminal, Constitutional and Administrative, Civil, Criminal and Administrative Procedural Law, European Union Law.

1990 - onwards / Various courses related to his law practice areas as well as on finance, accounting, analysis of financial statements, law & economics, corporate governance, economic psychology, mediation.