Mr Stamatis Drakakakis > Zepos & Yannopoulos > Athens, Greece > Lawyer Profile
Zepos & Yannopoulos Offices
280 KIFISSIAS AVE
HALANDRI
152 32 ATHENS
Greece
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Mr Stamatis Drakakakis
Work Department
Antitrust & Competition |
Position
Stamatis Drakakakis is a partner and head of our Antitrust & Competition practice. He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2002 and he joined our firm in the end of 2019.
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Stamatis covers the full range of EU and Greek competition work, including cartel investigations, merger control, JVs, distribution agreements, unilateral conducts, state aid measures and state intervention. He has represented multinational and major Greek corporations at both EU (European Commission and EU Courts) and national level (Hellenic Competition Commission, Sector Regulators and Greek Administrative Courts). His experience spans a wide spectrum of industries including electronic communications, energy, financial sector, constructions, airlines, broadcasting, retail, pharmaceutical, chemicals, steel, and defence. He has also been involved in cases where competition law interfaces with public procurement rules. He has assisted the European Commission before the General Court of EU in numerous cases. He has also advised the Hellenic Republic with regard to privatisation projects and ad hoc state aid cases. |
He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2002 and he joined our firm in the end of 2019. Stamatis is admitted before the Supreme Court. He has also completed a traineeship at the Court of Justice of the EU (in the Chambers of Judge V. Skouris – 2001/2002).
Languages
Greek, English and French.
Education
University of Athens, Faculty of Law (LL.B.) College of Europe, Bruges – Belgium (LL.M., EU Law / Competition, 2001) |
Lawyer Rankings
Greece > EU and competition
(Hall of Fame)Praised as an ‘excellent’ antitrust and competition practice with ‘high expertise’, the Zepos & Yannopoulos team is noted for handling high-profile state aid cases and merger control processes. Regarding antitrust issues, the group represents international and Greek entities before the Hellenic Competition Commission, while simultaneously offering a strong antitrust compliance and abuse of dominance service. The ‘top-notch’ Stamatis Drakakakis leads from Athens, focusing on matters regarding rescue and restructuring aid; Maria Lampadaki covers cartels and merger control affairs; and Yolanda Antoniou-Rapti assists clients in EU competition law proceedings. Ellie Gavriilidou, Konstantinos Sidiropoulos, Ledia Gavriilidou and Gina Goudoulia are also names to note.
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