Nikolinakos & Partners Law Firm

TMT & Digital Business, Data Protection & Cybersecurity, Antitrust & Competition Law, Dispute Resolution & Agency Litigation, Intellectural Property, Energy.  

Dr Nikos Th. Nikolinakos is Managing Partner of Nikolinakos & Partners LLP, co-head of the TMT & Digital Business Practice and head of the Antitrust & Competition Law Practice. He features prominently in the TMT and competition law rakings of the leading international bar publications.

Nikos divides his specialised practice between regulatory and policy advice in the TMT sector, and in EU/national antitrust/competition law and IP rights advocacy and compliance. 

Prior to founding the firm, Nikos held the post of general counsel – legal and regulatory affairs director for a major telecoms operator and internet provider in Greece.  He also held the position of senior in-house adviser to the Telecommunications & Post Commission of Greece (EETT), responsible for competition law and regulatory policy/compliance.  He has filled senior consulting roles in various international projects for governments, national regulatory authorities, market players and the European Commission, participating (inter alia) as a senior draftsman in most aspects regarding the transposition of the EU electronic communications regime into national law (in Greece and Cyprus).

Lecturer in Communications Law, IP and Competition Law at A.I.T. (Athens Information Technology Centre); visiting lecturer in electronic communications regulation and policy, NTUA (National Technical University of Athens); Greek correspondent for ‘CTLR’ (Sweet & Maxwell publications); national contributor, Oxford University Press (competition law).

He is author of numerous contributions in books and articles in the fields of TMT regulatory, competition/antitrust law and IP. Author of the book, ‘EU Competition Law and Regulation in the Converging Telecommunications, Media & IT Sectors’ (2006, Kluwer Law International/Aspen Publishers).

English, Greek.

Athens Bar Association; International Bar Association.

National University of Athens, School of Law (LLB); University of Edinburgh, School of Law (LLM and PhD).