Rokas Law Firm

Arbitration & Litigation, International Trade Law, Commercial Law, Insurance & Maritime Law, Construction & Energy Law, Investment Law

Partner

Admitted 1991, Thessaloniki; 2000, Athens; authorized to appear before the Greek Supreme Courts and lower Courts; Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Democritus University.

He is the Head of Arbitration at Rokas (Athens), specialises in dispute resolution and especially international arbitration and has an extensive experience of more than two decades in disputes involving arbitration before the leading arbitration centres around the world and under the most widely used arbitration rules (including ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules et al.), and has acted in a variety of arbitral seats, including London, Paris, Vienna, Athens etc.

He has acted as counsel, advisor or arbitrator (chairman and co-arbitrator) for many parties including governments and multinational corporations in various disputes involving mainly issues of international transactions & conflicts of laws, insurance & reinsurance, shipping, construction, energy.

He has also an extensive litigation experience of more than two decades before Greek Courts of all instances, in complex cases involving the same areas as in arbitration.

Greek, English, French

Secretary General of the European Court of Arbitration; President of its Greek Chapter; Vice-President of the Greek Arbitration Association; Vice-President of the Piraeus Association for Maritime Arbitration; Member of the ICC Hellas Executive Committee of the Greek Committee on International Arbitration; Treasurer of the Association International de Droit des Assurances (AIDA), Greek Chapter; Member of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA).

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Law School (Ph.D. in International Arbitration [summa cum laude], 1998, M.A. in Conflicts of Laws, 1993; Diploma,1989); London School of Economics (LL.M. in Arbitration & Maritime Law, 1993).

An avid reader of history books, listener of music, swimmer and traveller.