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Fortsakis, Diakopoulos, Mylonogiannis & Associates Law Firm

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Fortsakis, Diakopoulos, Mylonogiannis & Associates Law Firm fields a team of ‘remarkable experts’ in the traditional and renewable energy fields, primarily handling spin-off and M&A transactions, alongside contentious work concerning construction contract disputes. Theodore Fortsakis and Dimitris Diakopoulos jointly lead the department from Athens, each specialising in litigation and arbitration proceedings in the energy space, while Nikolas Avgouleas is an expert in public procurement and privatisations. The team is particularly knowledgeable in the natural gas and electricity industries.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Excellent expertise and know how in the area of public works, contracts, Energy Law, European Law, contract law, M&A, and Administrative Law. We have cooperated in an excellent and efficient way always.’

  • ‘Nikolaos Avgouleas and Theodoros Fortsakis are not only remarkable experts in the field but also respond promptly in all our requests, even the most complex and in a tight time schedule. It has been remarkable that Nikolaos Avgouleas responded several times in hours out of business, following up excellently and supporting us on urgent matters - in extremely difficult -even for lawyers- out of office hours- always providing services of excellent quality. Such qualities are very rare in days of extreme speed.’

  • ‘An innovative tax and energy experience, creating case law in taxing in Greece. The first law firm to have experience in natural gas.’

  • ‘The participation of Prof Theodore Fortsakis, who is highly estimated in the Greek Law Community, very experienced in public administration law, energy and tax law. Petros Pantazopoulos, one of the most prominent tax academics and lawyers with a very strong tax team to support them. Nikos Avgouleas, excellent public contracts and procurement lawyer. Very bright and promising lawyer with a commercial perspective to all fields of corporate, public and energy law. Dimitris Diakopoulos, very experienced in international corporate transactions.’

  • ‘Fortsakis, Diakopoulos, Mylonogiannis & Associates Law Firm has a very strong qualified and diversified team. It covers efficiently many areas of law practice, and you can rely on it as a one stop (legal) shop.’

  • ‘I have worked closely with the three partners (Fortsakis, Diakopoulos & Mylonogiannis) in various cases dealing with my business activity (i.e. Renewable Energy projects). What I can say for all three of them is that they excel not only on pure legal matters but also on their ethics and commitment to delivering results.’

Key clients

  • ELLAKTOR SA
  • enaon EDA
  • GASTRADE SA
  • NRG SA
  • DESFA SA
  • DEI SA
  • Greenvolt Next Greece S.A.
  • DEDDIE SA
  • ADMIE SA

Work highlights

  • Advised GASTRADE on the open tender that it had called for the provision of commissioning services at Alexandroupoli Independent Natural Gas System (FSRU Alexandroupolis).
  • Advising NRG on the preparation of its participation in tenders for the concession of development, management and operation of publicly available infrastructure for recharging electric vehicles.
  • Advised Greenvolt Next Greece in relation to the negotiation, drafting and closing of a share purchase agreement and several ancillary agreements for the acquisition of a RES company operating in Greece.

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Theodore Fortsakis, Dimitris Diakopoulos

Other key lawyers

Nikolas Avgouleas