Ms Lefkothea Nteka > Lambadarios Law Firm > Athens, Greece > Lawyer Profile

Lambadarios Law Firm
3 STADIOU STREET
105 62 ATHENS
Greece

Work Department

Antitrust & Competition

Position

Partner – head of Antitrust and Competition practice

Career

Lefkothea is the head of our Antitrust and Competition practice and a pre-eminent expert in competition law – both domestic and EU.

She advises clients across a wide range of deals and commercial matters including privatisations, cross-border and domestic M&A and joint ventures, cartels and abuse of dominance, distribution networks, vertical agreements and restrictive practices, investigations and compliance, state aid, procedures before administrative authorities and litigation before courts.

Before joining the firm, she served at the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) for 15 years, including five years as a Board member (Commissioner Rapporteur). While there, she worked on many large and high-profile cases across a range of sectors. She also contributed to the design of the regulator’s policy framework and operations and promoted its place in the network of European competition authorities.

Lefkothea continues to consult on regulatory issues domestic business and industry associations, as well as in the context of competition capacity-building programmes in cooperation with international organisations.

With her long experience in this area, Lefkothea can provide extensive and in-depth expertise both on the procedural aspects and substantive application of Greek and EU competition law, as well as on the workings and policy direction of the respective regulators. This combination of practical and policy expertise gives Lambadarios a genuinely differentiated client offer in the area of antitrust and competition law.

Languages

Greek English French German

Memberships

  • Volos Bar Association

Education

  • LLB National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Law, Economics and Political Sciences, Faculty of Law 1998
  • LLM (D.E.S. – Diplôme d’études spécialisées) in European commercial law, Institut d’Etudes Européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles 1999

Lawyer Rankings

Greece > EU and competition

(Next Generation Partners)

Lefkothea NtekaLambadarios Law Firm

Headed by the ‘exceptional’ Lefkothea Nteka, the competition team at Lambadarios Law Firm specialises in handling high-profile antitrust investigations, advising on competition compliance measures, and implementing state aid compliant projects. Hailed for its ‘comprehensive understanding of EU competition’ law, the practice frequently represents energy and telecoms companies subject to proceedings brought by the Hellenic Competition Commission. Nteka focuses on cartels and abuse of dominance matters, and Constantinos Lambadarios is active on the advisory side of antitrust competition compliance programmes.

Greece > Commercial, corporate and M&A

Acting on behalf of domestic and international companies across the banking, hospitality, and energy spaces, the practice at Lambadarios Law Firm draws upon its ‘innovative thinking’ and ‘problem-solving abilities‘ when advising on M&A and joint ventures. The team routinely assists on matters of corporate governance, especially in relation to finance and ownership, along with implementing internal restructurings and management agreements. In Athens, Constantinos Lambadarios is ‘strong in negotiations’, routinely handling major M&A transactions, whilst Melina Katsimi is an expert in company formations and restructurings. Yannis Kourniotis has expertise in the infrastructure sector, Katerina Malanou assists with regulatory compliance issues, and Lefkothea Nteka specialises in competition law.