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Violeta Panagiotopoulou

Work Department

Antitrust & Competition

Position

Violeta is a member of our Antitrust & Competition team. She has vast experience in providing compliance advice on all aspects of competition law and most prominently regarding abuse of dominance, cartel investigations, distribution agreements, other vertical and horizontal agreements, and merger control. She advises diverse corporate clients successfully active in a variety of industries, including consumer goods, F&Bs, pharmaceutical, energy, digital platforms, financial sector, and construction. Violeta represents clients before the Hellenic Competition Commission, the Greek Appellate Court, and the Greek Civil Courts (damages claims). Over the past decade, she has been involved in numerous remarkable cases before the National Competition Authority, in merger control (including Phase II/ commitments), settlement, and adversary proceedings, concerning novel and intricate issues.

When handling distribution law matters and digital platforms, her approach includes commercial law and regulatory compliance advice.

In 2012, after her postgraduate studies, Violeta concluded an internship (as a Blue Book stagiaire) at the Legal Service of the European Commission (AIDE Team (State aids and dumping) (SJ.C)). Subsequently, she worked for over a decade in the field of competition law for a Greek law firm.

She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2012 and joined our firm in 2023. Violeta is admitted before the Supreme Court.

Languages

English, Greek

Education

• University College London (UCL), Master in Law and Economics of Competition Law (LL.M.)
• University of Vienna (Erasmus Certificate)
• National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law (LL.B.)