Koutalidis Law Firm

Athina Xynopoulou

Associate

Chrysanthi Karlou

Yiannis focuses on public procurement & concession projects, privatizations, and administrative law. He has substantial experience in advising international and domestic clients in their participation in public tenders and awarding authorities on the launching of public tenders. He guides and represents them through all stages of international tender procedures, including at the litigation level, and advises on all aspects of regulatory and administrative law matters. Yannis has, also, a strong track record in representing clients in privatization procedures in a wide array of industries including infrastructure and energy.

Effie Papoutsi

Partner

Evangelos Courakis

Evans focuses on energy law, international arbitrations, complicated litigations before the Greek courts, concessions and privatizations and contract negotiation and drafting (with focus on corporate, energy and construction). He is also very experienced in data protection issues, on which he regularly advises. He is heading the Energy Sector and the Data Privacy Departments and he is deputy head at the Arbitration, Litigation and Mediation Department. Evans is recognized by Chambers as having “extensive experience of traditional and renewable energy mandates, including advising investors on the acquisition of wind farms, and gas turbine developments” and being a “trustworthy, well-versed energy lawyer”. Moreover, Legal500 has ranked the Arbitration, Litigation and Mediation Department of our Firm as Tier 1, stating that it has “has an excellent reputation for major domestic and international disputes”, while it has ranked the Energy Sector Department favorably, mentioning the “strong track record” that it has in energy matters.

George Naskaris

Partner

Gregory Logothetis

Partner

Ioannis Kaptanis

Partner

Katia Protopapa

Partner

Manolis Kasotakis

Manolis has a wide experience in litigation and commercial arbitration. In his litigation practice, Manolis has a successful track record in numerous proceedings across different sectors, including also cases involving investment services, shareholders’ disputes, unfair competition, ip rights, trademarks and distribution agreements. His arbitration experience extends to cases administered under the ICC, LCIA, LMAA rules, the Technical Chambers of Greece and the Greek procedural code as well as to ad hoc arbitrations. His dispute resolution expertise provides him with a particular insight in contract negotiations.

Nikitas Fortsakis

Nikitas focuses on all aspects of administrative law, with a special focus on environmental, urban and TMT issues and heads the TMT and the Administrative Law departments of the Firm. He is active in both the advisory and the litigation aspects of the field. His clients include telecom companies, water industries, medical diagnostic centers etc. He also regularly represents clients before the competent authorities and Courts clients on public tenders’ issues and advises them on all relevant issues. He is also very active in pharmaceutical law cases advising clients on EU and Greek regulatory and compliance matters, preparing and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements (including distribution agreements, collaborations agreements) and other and representing pharmaceutical companies before the administrative courts for various issues (promotion, marketing and licensing of medicines etc). He is also particularly very active in anti-corruption (including FCPA) and data protection cases and has extensive experience in addressing relevant processes before the competent authorities.

Nikos Salakas

Nikos has extensive experience in Banking, Finance & Restructuring, Capital Markets, Project Finance, and M&A practices. He is particularly active in complicated projects of these practices and has been repeatedly acknowledged by international legal associations for his successful track record. Indicatively, he has been named “market leader”, “stellar lawyer” and hall of fame lawyer.

Nikos Koritsas

Managing Partner

Sofia Daskalaki

Sofia has been in our Firm since 1994 and holds the position of Deputy Managing Partner. With a broad experience and in-depth expertise on Corporate & Commercial Law, she has become a seasoned legal professional. Additionally to her active legal career, for many years she maintained an important teaching role at the School of Law of the University of Athens.

Yiannis Loizos

Yiannis possesses broad expertise in both Greek and cross-border M&A transactions and privatisations, having been involved in a number of complex large-scale projects within these sectors since joining Koutalidis Law Firm in 2008. He also regularly advises domestic, as well as multinational clients, on concessions (particularly within the infrastructure sector), and has a strong record in energy and capital market transactions.