In her role as head of legal administration for O1 Advisory, Nicosia-based Adina-Viviana Szemethy is tasked with providing legal support to one of the largest Russian commercial real estate investment...

Afrodite Dellaporta assumed her current position as head of legal at A.M. Nomikos Transworld Maritime Agencies in September 1997. Understanding that her career path is always a ‘work in progress’...

A Greek-qualified lawyer admitted to the Athens Court of Appeals and with an LLM in international and European law, Afroditi Kanellopoulou took on her first significant legal role in 2006,...

After 15 years career as senior associate in Athens law firms, expert legal professional Alexandra Michalopoulou moved in-house for the first time when she joined OPAP Group, the leading gaming...

‘My devotion and passion for my work are my driving forces’, states Alexandros A. Pattakos – legal and insurance counsel for N.J. Goulandris Maritime. A renowned legal expert in the...

A highly accomplished legal professional, Alexia Trokoudi was formerly head of the legal department of the Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy. She explains that this prestigious position – which she...

Based in Athens, Gerolymatos International is a global healthcare company that can trace its roots back to 1923. With a wide network of affiliated companies, joint-ventures and local distributors and...

Forthnet introduced Greece to internet and pay-tv and is now the largest provider of bundled home entertainment and communication services in the country. Amongst the company’s 1,200 employees is legal...

Moving in-house at an early stage in her professional career and joining a team at a relatively turbulent time, Andrea Moundi Savvides has been able to develop as a professional...

Andreas Petasis joined Eurobank Cyprus as the sole internal lawyer following its inauguration in 2007, and within three years was promoted to the position of head of legal services, assuming...

A Greek company organising and conducting games of chance and a large regional business, the OPAP Group is served by chief legal officer Anny Ketentzoglou – one of the premier...

Head legal counsel at Macoil International since 2007, Anta Chamosfakidi prizes a proactive approach to the challenges faced by her legal team which allows it to deploy its full capabilities...

Anthia Savvidou serves as the legal manager for Interorient Shipmanagement, a company founded in 1979 that prides itself as being one of the leaders in quality ship management and has...

Nokia’s resurgence in recent years has been one of the most discussed events in the mobile technology sector, and this promising state of affairs for the company is attributable in...

Antigoni Papanikolaou was hired by Microsoft Hellas in February 2012 as the world-renowned technology company’s first in-house counsel, and consequently set-up and defined the role and scope of the company’s...

An in-house lawyer since 2000, Silvana Tsitsirigou progressed through the in-house ranks of Germanos and Olympia Development Holding before taking on her current role, as director of legal and compliance...

Established in 1992, leading gaming solutions supplier and operator INTRALOT has grown exponentially since. The company now boasts a presence in 55 global jurisdictions with a recorded €1.32bn turnover and...

As the head of the legal team at Hellenic Bank, the second largest commercial bank in Cyprus, Calliopi Nicolaidou’s responsibilities include managing its legal team of 12 lawyers which advises...

Since joining the Greek mobile marketing company Velti in September 2009, Catherine Karanikola has achieved an impressive operational overhaul of the internal legal department which has resulted in noticeable improvements...

Since a much publicised cessation of operations in 2015, ending a period of operation which had gone on for almost 70 years, the Cyprus Airways brand has taken on new...

The current general counsel at the largest ice cream brand in Greece, Christina Karakosta is a long-serving legal professional with Dodoni Ice Cream, having spent over 13 years at the...

Established in 1973, Commercial General Insurance is among the leading companies in the Cypriot general insurance sector, operating branches in all major towns, as well as a large network of...

Tri-lingual legal professional Christina Vasilopoulou moved to Unilever in May 2017. As general counsel for both Greece and Cyprus she covers a wide remit and, with a long standing career,...

Leading the legal department for London Capital Group, a global business based in the UK, Diana Luca brings a demonstrated history of working in the legal sector and financial services...

Listed on the Athens Stock Exchange, Terna Energy is a Greek renewable energy company that pulls in an annual revenue figure of approximately €160m via its operations in the energy,...

One of the leading food companies in the Greek market, Vivartia was founded in 2006 following a landmark merger and today it produces and markets its products through its well-known...

Fortune Global 500 listed Chinese telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei recently surpassed Apple and became the second largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, and has relied on the expansion of its...

One of the most knowledgeable, experienced and highly-respected lawyers in Greece, Economou Argyris has operated at the upper echelons of both private practice and internal legal roles over the course...

OTE Group is the largest telecommunications provider in the Greek market that operates through COSMOTE, its unified brand for all Group products and wholly owned subsidiary. As chief legal and...

Eleana Spyris was promoted to her position of head of legal at Cypriot insurer EuroLife following a successful two-year stint as in-house counsel at its parent company, Bank of Cyprus...

Elena Bosnidou has enjoyed a number of senior in-house roles in Greece over the course of her legal career which spans over two decades. Between 1997 and 2002 she was...

Eleni Papapanou serves as the senior counsel and board secretary for Titan Cement Company, a large multinational cement and building materials producing firm based in Greece. Serving as its senior...

The current vice president of legal affairs for Greek supermarket chain AB Vassilopoulos, Eleni Providi was an instrumental part of the biggest deal in the history of the organisation, the...

Since 2010, Eleni Stathaki has headed the legal function of Upstream, a leading mobile commerce company in high-growth and developing markets. Since joining Upstream as sole the in-house counsel with...

Highly valued for her strategic business advice in addition to her wide legal knowledge, Elli Photiadou occupies a place on the AstroBank board of directors and is head of corporate...

Part of the UK-incorporated multinational professional services network, Deloitte Greece provides audit, tax, consulting, risk advisory and financial advisory services. Since 2010, Emmanouil “Manos” Asikis, has been in charge of...

‘Confident, smart and sharp’ according to nominators, Eugenia Papathanasopoulou has served as the director of legal affairs and secretary to the board of directors of Athens International Airport since September...

Eva Shammas has supported RCB Bank – a Cyprus-based banking institution with over 20 years of history and thousands of international clients – for the last three years of her...

Evangelos Chrysafis has been general manager of legal and regulatory affairs at Mytilineos Holdings, a Greek-based industrial conglomerate whose companies are active in the sectors of metallurgy, energy and EPC....

Market leading gambling and financial trading company Playtech is the world’s largest online gambling software supplier, offering cutting-edge value added solutions to the industry’s leading operators. Serving as its legal...

Evyenia Kelly Epaminondou took on her current role as senior legal officer at business process outsourcing and IT support company Tek Experts after a seven-year period as a private practice...

A legal professional with 25 years of experience in the banking sector, George Lekkas considers his move to Eurobank, a major Greek bank listed on the Athens Exchange, as one...

Founded in 1916, Piraeus Bank has grown into Greece’s leading bank with approximately 17,000 employees and operations in seven countries serving just under six million customers. Among its taskforce is...

George Prousanides is the general counsel of Greek petroleum company Motor Oil Hellas (MOH), which operates the Corinth refinery, the second largest oil refinery in Europe, as well as owning...

Georgia Demetriou is an experienced specialist with a demonstrated history of expertise in maritime law, arbitration, banking law and European law across multiple jurisdictions. Her in-house career in the shipping...

A maritime law specialist, having obtained an LLB and LLM in the field before embarking on her professional career in earnest, Georgina Panayiotou is legal manager for Limassol-based shipping company...

Founded in 1980, the Olympia Group has since developed into one of the leading Greek corporate businesses through the activities of his various subsidiaries. General counsel Georgios Xirouchakis has been...

Formerly an assistant professor at the University of Leuven and a litigation specialist at the Brussels-based law firm Altius, Hans Brems first moved to Athens in 2001 when he became...

Multinational retail company Jumbo has been at the forefront of the Greek child and baby care retail landscape for over 30 years. It has over 50 stores in Greece and...

During his first 20 years of practicing as a lawyer, Ioannis Voskos worked in in-house roles for a variety of multinational companies. Since June 2014 he has been serving Hellenic...

Ioannis Zakopoulos first joined Fourlis Group in 1998 in the capacity of the legal advisor. As part of one of the leading group of companies in Greece and the Balkans...

Listed on both the Athens Exchange and London Stock Exchange, Hellenic Petroleum has developed into one of the leading energy groups in Southeast Europe with a presence in six countries...

Part of the Latsis Group and listed on the main market of the Athens Exchange, LAMDA Development is the leader in Greece’s retail real estate sector, with successful diversification in...

Since transitioning to Greece’s in-house market in 2008, John Psomas has demonstrated a high level of technical legal knowledge and business-orientated advice. In December 2013 he joined the Greek branch...

Legal and compliance counsel for Greece, Cyprus and Malta at multinational software corporation SAP, Katerina Galanopoulou considers herself as more than simply a legal professional: ‘Working closely with SAP management...

Katerina Papageorgiou is the head of legal and compliance for the Greek operations of world-renowned financial services institution Deutsche Bank. Appointed to her role in April 2012, she has approximately...

Having worked for it since 1994, Katerina Vracha boasts immense experience of working with Dixons South East Europe (known as Kotsovolos), and is able to draw from an intimate and...

Experienced aviation lawyer Katia Avramidou has been a driving force behind the legal department at Aegean Airlines, Greece’s flag carrier and largest airline, for the last 17 years. Currently serving...

Katia Santis has a long-standing in-house career having taken up the position of internal legal adviser with the Cyprus Development Bank (CDBbank) in 1991. She spent 22 years there working...

A legal professional with extensive corporate and commercial transaction experience in a number of jurisdictions, in October 2017 Kirill Shein was recruited as managing director and group general counsel by...

Konstantina Schiza is the head of legal at VICTUS Networks, a company that was formed as a 50/50 joint venture between Vodafone Greece and its domestic rival Wind Hellas in...

Having served in senior legal positions at various large domestic and multinational financial services companies operating in Greece for well over a decade, Konstantinos Antonakis is extremely well-regarded within Greece’s...

Leonidas Tolis first joined Papastratos Cigarette Manufacturing Company as a legal counsel in 1999, and in 2003 when Philip Morris International (PMI) acquired Papastratos, he was assigned the role of...

Formerly a private practice lawyer from 1990 until 1997, Lilian Kontou first went in-house with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in Athens as a senior manager in the company’s tax and legal services...

Loukia Kanarini joined the rapidly growing business of online trading company IronFX Group in 2012, two years after the company was founded. Initially serving as legal advisor and subsequently promoted...

Nearly 30 years after its establishment, Atlantic Insurance ranks among the largest insurance companies in Cyprus, employing a highly qualified workforce across easily accessible offices in all cities on the...

Insurance giant AIG’s branch in Greece is ably assisted by the talented and experienced associate general counsel Maria Kazamia, who heads legal support across the company’s South Zone, EMEA region....

Maria Kettirou started her legal career at the Central Bank of Cyprus in 2005 after obtaining an MBA from the Cyprus International Institute of Management. She has been employed as...

Fortune Global 500 electronics company LG’s operations in Greece are organised under the LG Electronics Hellas subsidiary, and is responsible for the distribution of LG’s wide range of electronic products...

A long-serving employee of the Nireus group – the world’s leading company in the production and trading of Mediterranean aquaculture species – Maria Labrinou has served the company since 1996,...

Since her appointment as head of legal and external affairs at Vodafone’s Greek operation, Maria Skagou has made a vital contribution to the company’s “Gigabit” strategy by facilitating the introduction...

German multinational conglomerate Siemens has been active in Greece for nearly 120 years and today continues to offer products, solutions and services that reflect the organisation’s engineering excellence, innovation and...

In July 2013 Marios Andrikopoulos joined ELPEDISON Power and ELPEDISON Energy as legal counsel, subsequent to which the two companies merged in 2015 and formed ELPEDISON, and the company became...

A Swedish national, Martin Thorvaldsson has enjoyed an in-house legal career of over two decades in his home nation as well as Mediterranean jurisdictions namely Malta, Gibraltar and most recently...

Since 2011, Independent Power Transmission Operator (known as IPTO or ADMIE) has assumed the role of transmission system operator for the Hellenic Electricity Transmission System, ensuring Greece’s electricity supply in...

A member of the Athens Bar Association since 1998, Natalie Kedikoglou started her in-house career in 2003, and has operated in the upper echelons of the profession ever since. She...

Since Nayia Pyridi started practicing as a lawyer in 2003, her career path has involved a mix of assignments taken in private practice, academia and in legal advisory services through...

Joannou & Paraskevaides Group – better known as J&P Group – is one of the leading companies in the engineering field and has a wide variety of EPC and construction...

A lawyer with an extensive track record of achievement in managing legal services, Nikolaos Zachos currently serves as head of legal at Intracom, one of the largest multinational technology groups...

Hermes Airports manages and controls Larnaka International Airport and Pafos International Airport under a 25 year Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) concession agreement made with the Republic of Cyprus in 2006. Odysseas Frenaritis...

Having worked within the Greek branch of one of the world’s most recognisable brands for almost 20 years, Olga Papadogianni is the long-tenured and highly respected legal director of Coca-Cola...

Alpha Bank is the fourth largest Greek bank by total assets, and the largest by market capitalisation. As manager of the legal services division for the Forbes Global 2000 listed...

A technologically-adept lawyer, Ori Monheit combines a previous role as a software developer with legal expertise to make him ideally placed to operate as an in-house lawyer in the IT...

With a legal career in Greece that spans over 20 years, Paris Passias is one of the country’s most respected in-house lawyers. In 2015 Passias joined Greek shipping giant NAVARONE...

Described by nominators as an ‘experienced in-house counsel with excellent management and communication skills’, Periklis Stroumpos established and is now leading the legal department of Fraport Greece, the local operations...

Petros Hadjiantoniou serves as the director of legal and regulatory affairs for Cyta, a semi-governmental organisation established with the aim of providing, maintaining and developing a comprehensive telecommunications service, both...

An outstanding in-house lawyer in the maritime sector, the path to Petros Papaevagorou’s in-house legal career is a varied one, having first begun it in 2014 as a trainee lawyer...

Roman Zanin has served as the general counsel for award-winning online game developer and publisher Wargaming.net for the last five years. As an extension of its services of delivering authentic...

‘I believe that providing in-house legal support and advice which is secure, fast, practical and business-oriented is an important element for the growth of the corporate banking general division of...

Sophia Michelaki assumed her current position as general counsel and head of the legal division at DESFA on March 2007 possessing almost eleven years of managing the legal department within...

Based in Athens, Coca-Cola HBC is a Forbes Global 2000 listed company that is a major anchor bottler used by the Coca-Cola Company, providing bottling services across a range of...

Stathis Mihos’ legal career spans almost three decades, and since beginning his in-house career in 2001 he has built up a formidable reputation amongst Greece’s corporate counsel. As legal director...

A shipping law expert with over 16 years of experience in the sector, including more than eleven as an in-house lawyer with US-listed shipping companies, Theodora Mitropetrou has been Seanergy’s...

As the head of legal of one the largest online travel agencies in Europe that manages an extensive portfolio of travel-focused websites, Dr Theodore Koulourianos is responsible for some of...

Theodossis Tompras started his career at the Greek telecommunications provider WIND Hellas in 2006 following a three year stint in private practice. Starting off as a junior regulatory and competition...

INTRASOFT International is a leading European IT solutions and services group with strong international presence and expertise. Among the Luxembourg-based company’s 1,700 highly-skilled professionals is group legal director Tzina Prokopidou...

Vassilis Kyriakou joined Leroy Merlin Greece and Cyprus, the subsidiary of Group Adeo, responsible for the Greek and Cypriot markets in 2009 as general counsel. Following his appointment, he undertook...

An individual that is highly recommended by nominating sources, Yiango-George Yiangoullis has enjoyed a rapid rise in the legal profession, since his career began in earnest over a decade ago....

Publicly quoted, Attica Group operates international ferry services in Europe through its main trademark names, Superfast Ferries and Blue Star Ferries. Having worked at the company since 2002, general counsel...

Yota Kremmida first joined Hewlett Packard as a country counsel for Greece and Cyprus and was then promoted to the position of regional counsel with the additional responsibility of the...