Zepos & Yannopoulos

Vasiliki Agianni

Vasiliki is a tax lawyer and is a member of our private clients practice. Vasiliki works on income tax and real estate tax matters, as well as on the tax aspects of succession planning. She has a particular expertise on EU and international tax matters, having spent the past few years as an editor and tax researcher in IBFD and as a tax associate in an international professional tax and legal services company. Vasiliki is admitted before the Court of First Instance and was admitted to the Larissa Bar in 2020. She joined our firm in 2022.

Matina Andrikopoulou

Matina is a senior associate of our employment and labour practice. She advises the firm’s clients on day-to-day employment matters, including drafting of employment contracts, redundancies, working time, benefits in kind, assignment of personnel through temp-work agencies, health and safety requirements, and social security issues. She also advises on TUPE related issues, while she is often engaged in Legal Due Diligence projects. Before joining the firm, Matina was working as an associate in a Greek business law firm for six years. She focused on employment and labour issues from a consulting and litigation standpoint, having also handled various civil litigation cases for domestic and multinational clients. She was admitted to the Athens Bar Association in 2014 and she is qualified to practice before the Court of Appeals. She joined our firm in 2020. EDUCATION \tUniversity of Athens, Faculty of Law (LL.M. in Labour Law) \tUniversity of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Law (LL.B.) LANGUAGES \tGreek \tEnglish

Yolanda Antoniou-Rapti

Yolanda is a senior associate and focuses on Greek and EU data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, competition & antitrust, corporate and commercial law. She advises on all aspects of EU and Greek data protection compliance issues, including assisting clients in identifying compliance gaps, both in the context of GDPR compliance audits and M&A due diligence reviews, assessing and managing relevant risks, and in taking steps to ensure overall compliance, including conducting trainings and workshops. Yolanda’s practice also covers data protection litigation, as well as advisory and assistance tasks on day-to-day matters, including drafting and negotiating privacy terms in contracts, drafting privacy policies and notices, data processing agreements, consent forms, the use of new technologies, ePrivacy issues, data breach management and notification, international data transfers, and carrying out data protection impact assessments. She also has a broad experience and assists clients on Greek and EU competition law issues, including cartels, vertical agreements, abuse of dominance, merger control, dawn raids, mock exercises, compliance audits, as well as workshops and trainings to ensure overall compliance. Yolanda is admitted before the Court of First Instance. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2012 and joined our firm in 2018.

Anastasia Aptalidi

Anastasia is a Senior Associate of our real estate group. She is involved in various real estate transactions, focusing on sales and acquisitions, the due diligence of real estate portfolios, establishment of in rem securities as well as commercial and residential lease agreements. Anastasia also guides foreign individuals through the process of obtaining the Golden Visa within the context of a property acquisition through asset or share deals. She was admitted to the Piraeus Bar Association in 2017 and joined our firm in 2021. Anastasia is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

Nadia Axioti

Nadia is a senior associate focusing on corporate, commercial, M&A and banking law. She is engaged in a broad range of multinational M&As and other corporate transactions, where she undertakes legal due diligence, drafting and negotiation of transactional documentation and handling of related Greek law formalities. Nadia also advises corporate clients and businesses on corporate and commercial matters with regards to their day-to-day operation and regulatory compliance. Nadia has experience in project finance transactional work. She has also acted for domestic and international private sector clients, credit institutions and credit servicing firms on banking and finance transactions.

Dimitris Babiniotis

Asc. Professor Dimitris Babiniotis serves as head of our Litigation & Arbitration practice. Dimitris' practice focuses on complex state court litigation and commercial arbitration, both domestic and international. Litigation: Dimitris is widely recognized as a leading authority in appellate and cassation litigation. Having written extensively in these areas, he is regularly instructed by clients from all sectors of the market, irrespective of the nature and subject matter of their disputes, to deal with the highly sophisticated procedural issues involved in proceedings before the Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court. In this context, Dimitris has acted as lead counsel representing corporate clients in a wide range of commercial and corporate disputes in both domestic and cross-border contexts. These include, but are not limited to, shareholder disputes, free and unfair competition disputes before state courts, consumer disputes including pharmaceutical disputes, disputes arising out of complex commercial transactions such as M&A transactions, financing transactions and distribution and agency agreements. He has also represented corporate clients in a wide variety of tort disputes, including business defamation, employment torts, and directors' and officers' liability claims. Arbitration: Dimitris has acted as lead counsel in a large number of complex international and domestic commercial arbitration proceedings. His practice encompasses disputes in all major industry sectors, namely construction and infrastructure, energy and financial services. Dimitris has also represented corporate clients in numerous arbitrations involving the Greek State or Greek state-owned entities in disputes arising out of public contracts. Arbitration-related litigation: Dimitris is widely regarded as an authority on arbitration-related litigation, having served as lead counsel in numerous proceedings for the annulment, recognition, and enforcement of arbitral awards before Greek state courts. He has also successfully represented international clients in compelling arbitration when litigation had been improperly initiated against them in Greek state courts. Dimitris is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. Dimitris is an Associate Professor at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace, where he teaches civil procedure and arbitration at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His scholarly work encompasses arbitration, Supreme Court litigation (the law of cassation), appellate procedure, the binding effect of state court decisions and arbitral awards and the standards of judicial review of arbitral awards. He serves on the editorial boards of Greece's two most prestigious procedural law journals: the "Review of Procedural Law” and “Chronicles of Procedural Law”. Dimitris was appointed to serve as the official ambassador for the Vienna International Arbitration Centre (VIAC) in Greece.

Elina Belouli

Elina is a partner in our Private Clients practice. leverages her international tax expertise to provide comprehensive advice and strategic guidance to high-net-worth individuals and family offices, on matters related to estate planning and wealth preservation. She focuses on tax planning for active business assets and investment activities, with a particular emphasis on tax structuring, and commonly advises on a wide range of Greek tax aspects of cross-border transactions and inbound investments, including on real estate, involving both private and corporate clients. Elina is also well versed in the elaboration and implementation of business restructurings, particularly in the context of succession planning. Her experience in corporate tax and transfer pricing enables her to provide insightful advice on tax implications of ventures with cross-border elements. Before joining the firm, Elina was employed in DG TAXUD of the European Commission, where she got engaged in infringement cases with regards to direct taxation in Greece, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Portugal and the UK. Elina is admitted before the Court of First Instance. She was admitted to the Thessaloniki Bar in 2017 and joined our firm later that year.

Maria Bozinaki

Maria is a senior associate of our M&A and Project Development practice. She has wide experience in assisting domestic and international clients from various industries on their day-to-day corporate and commercial practices and compliance, including contractual and business arrangements and ad-hoc legal advice in business affairs. She is engaged in business transformations and restructurings, including M&A transactions support for distressed and not distressed assets, as well as insolvency proceedings. Maria also undertakes legal due diligence, drafting of transactional documentation and implementation of the relevant Greek law formalities required. She was admitted to the Piraeus Bar in 2014 and joined our firm in 2023. Maria is admitted before the Court of Appeals. EDUCATION \tHellenic Open University (MA, Contemporary Journalism Studies) \tUniversity of Piraeus (MSc, Banking and Finance Law) \tDemocritus University of Thrace, Faculty of Law (LL.B.) LANGUAGES \tGreek \tEnglish

Stefanos Charaktiniotis

Stefanos heads our M&A and Project Development practice. He has extensive experience on M&A, cross border corporate transactional work, corporate restructuring, and financing projects. He is also engaged in carrying out legal due diligence, drafting and negotiating share purchase and ancillary agreements and undertakes all formalities required for the implementation of acquisitions. Stefanos also acts for technology companies, their investors and management on M&A, private equity and other corporate transactions. Stefanos has also experience in antitrust practice, advising businesses operating in Greece through local subsidiaries or distributors on their compliance with antitrust specifications of EU and Greek antitrust law. He is admitted before the Supreme Court. Stefanos is a member of the firm’s executive committee.

Nefelie Charalabopoulou

Nefelie Charalabopoulou is a Partner of our corporate commercial practice and Head of our healthcare, pharma & life sciences practice. Nefelie practices corporate, commercial and healthcare law. She focuses on advising clients in highly-regulated industries on all inherent legal and compliance issues, with an emphasis on pharmaceuticals, medtech products, biotech and cosmetics. She also advises them on their corporate law matters. Her extensive experience in the life sciences sector is particularly valuable; it allows her to thoroughly understand and analyse the complex environment in which her clients operate and helps them to achieve breakthrough results. She supports domestic and multinational stakeholders on a wide range of regulatory and compliance issues, such as marketing authorizations and registrations, pricing and reimbursement, licensing and distribution, interactions with HCPs/HCOs, clinical trials, promotional activities, etc. She is also involved in different international business transactions and co-operations, including share and asset deals, corporate reorganizations, LDDs and the drafting of related agreements. Nefelie is admitted before the Court of Appeals. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2005 and joined our firm in 2019.

Sofia Chatzigiannidou

Sofia heads our Public Procurement and Concessions practice advising on a wide array of regulatory and administrative law matters pertaining to the relevant procedures. She has a strong track record in representing clients in procurement and privatisation procedures in a wide array of industries including energy, defense and pharmaceuticals, her work includes all areas of tender related matters from responding to call for tenders to tender related dispute procedures in and out of court. She has acted in many large-scale procurement and privatisation projects including marinas, motorways, casino licenses and multimillion framework agreements tendered by the Health Procurement Committee. Sofia also advises on the full spectrum of energy related issues including compliance, electricity, natural gas and hydrocarbons’ regulation, financing and licensing requirements of Renewable Energy Projects and relevant transactional work. She has acted for leading energy companies in the renewables, oil and gas sectors and has been heavily involved in various energy and infrastructure projects presenting complex regulatory aspects. Sofia was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2005 and is admitted before the Supreme Court. She joined our firm in 2006.

Tasos Chrysochoou

Tasos is a senior associate and a member of our employment & labour practice. Tasos has extensive experience in dispute resolution and focuses on representing clients in all types of employment litigation. He also regularly advises international and domestic clients on several employment matters relating to their operation in Greece, including termination of employment contracts, working hours, benefits issues etc. Before joining our firm Tasos worked for many years as a litigation lawyer offering legal services in a broad range of practice areas, including civil, commercial and labour law, as well as enforcement proceedings. He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2004 and joined our firm in 2019. Tasos is admitted before the Supreme Court.

Daphne Cozonis

Daphne Cozonis is a partner of our tax practice. Daphne specialises in corporate and international taxation with particular focus on the financial and insurance sector as well as on finance and capital markets transactions. She has an experience of over twenty years in advising clients on a broad range of tax matters, such as in relation to private equity acquisitions, structured finance, funds, corporate restructurings and complex corporate taxation matters. She was admitted to the Athens Bar Association in 1995 and joined our firm in 1998. Daphne is admitted before the Court of Appeals. of redomiciling" in the IBA 33rd International Financial Law Conference held in Athens in May 2016. Daphne is admitted before the Court of Appeals and works in Greek, English and French.

Gina Dimitropoulou

Gina is a senior associate in our corporate and commercial law practice. She is involved in advising multinational and domestic corporations on structuring their business in Greece and handles day-to-day and general corporate matters, such as company set ups and transformations, share deals and transfers of business, corporate governance, day-to-day corporate advice and support, AML and in general compliance matters. She is also engaged in commercial agreements and arrangements, such as agency, distribution and commercial lease matters and provides relevant regulatory advice. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2019 and joined our firm the same year. Gina is admitted before the Court of First Instance. EDUCATION \t National Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Law (LL.B.) \t Universidad de Jaén (Erasmus scholarship) LANGUAGES \tGreek \tEnglish \tSpanish \tGerman \tItalian

Stamatis Drakakakis

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. 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).

Danai Falconaki

Danai Falconaki is a partner focusing on corporate, commercial, anti-trust, M&A and bankruptcy law. She regularly advises and assists domestic corporate clients and international businesses operating in Greece on day-to-day corporate commercial practices and their regulatory compliance. Danai’s practice covers a wide range of multinational M&A transactions, which include competition-related matters. She is also engaged in carrying out legal due diligence, drafting and negotiating transactional documentation and handling Greek law formalities required for the completion of acquisitions. She also assists in advising on a wide array of legal issues related to bankruptcy regulation. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2015 and joined our firm in 2017. Danai is admitted before the Court of Appeals.

Katerina Fereti

Katerina is a senior associate of our Public Procurement & Concessions practice group. She has broad experience in all aspects of EU and public/ administrative law and regularly represents clients before the Administrative Courts while she has also handled complaints on alleged breaches of EU law before the European Commission. She is experienced in all aspects of administrative law and handles a wide array of regulatory matters in a broad spectrum of industries. Her expertise also covers public procurement law issues where she provides end-to-end advice to clients, from the review of tender documents and compilation of bids to handling tender-related dispute procedures in and out of Court. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2009 and joined our firm in 2023. Katerina is admitted before the Court of Appeals. EDUCATION \tUniversity College London (UCL) (LL.M., Competition Law) \tNational Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law (LL.M., Public Law) \tKatholieke Universiteit Leuven, Faculty of Law (LL.M., European Law) \tNational Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law (LL.B.) LANGUAGES \tGreek \tEnglish

Elina Filippou

Elina heads the firm’s private client practice. She brings in years of experience in international tax matters and the way they impact the structuring of wealth and the performance of investment activity. She has been working with multijurisdictional family offices, asset managers and family-owned businesses on wealth structuring and estate planning, multi-generational governance and estate planning matters. She is active in the start-up ecosystem, working with start-ups and their investors, on tax aspects over the life of the activity from set up to exit, with a particular focus on compensation mechanisms for founders and executives. Elina is acknowledged as a highly regarded tax practitioner in Greece by a number of professional directories, such the International Tax Review (ITR), Legal 500, Who is Who Legal and Global Elite. She has been with Zepos & Yannopoulos since 2004 and is a member of the firm’s executive committee.

Ellie Gavriilidou

Ellie is a Senior Associate focusing on competition and antitrust law. Her practice covers a wide range of matters pertaining to EU, Greek and UK competition law, and she assists clients on issues related to cartels, vertical agreements, merger control and state aid. Ellie is admitted before the Court of First Instance. Prior to joining us, Ellie worked with a London antitrust boutique firm. She was admitted to the Athens Bar Association in 2019 and joined us in 2020.

Mary Georgiou

Mary is a partner of our real estate practice. She advises international and domestic clients on real estate matters such as the purchase and sale of properties, as well as commercial and residential lease agreements. She also has significant experience in due diligence of real estate portfolios and regularly advises clients on the lawful transfer of title. Mary represents clients on a regular basis before the First Instance Court with respect to the establishment of in rem securities, disputes arising from breach of contract, recovery of debts and claims and tort. She was admitted to the Piraeus Bar in 2012 and joined our firm in 2016. Mary is admitted before the Court of Appeals.

Dimitris Gialouris

Dimitris Gialouris is a partner of our tax litigation practice and dispute resolution team. Dimitris’s expertise focuses on tax controversy involving both direct and indirect taxation, as well as domestic and international law interpretation issues. He has extensive experience in dispute resolution and has successfully pleaded on such matters before courts of all instances, including the Supreme Administrative Court. Dimitris has also advised domestic and multinational companies on direct and indirect tax matters, as well as on administrative and court procedures. He has extensive experience in all stages of tax controversy and has represented before tax authorities clients active in a variety of fields, including information technology, pharma, real estate, travel and retail. He was admitted to the Athens Bar Association in 2006 and joined our firm in 2014. Dimitris is admitted before the Supreme Court.

Antonis Giannakodimos

Antonis Giannakodimos is a partner of our corporate commercial practice. Antonis advises on corporate and commercial law across several industries, with an emphasis on commercial transactions and a particular focus on agency and distribution agreements. He has also gained extensive experience in the E-commerce and TMT fields through his involvement in a series of innovative cases advising on a wide range of regulatory, corporate, and commercial issues. In addition, he regularly advises clients active in the Food & Beverages sector. Antonis was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2011 and joined our firm in 2012. He is also admitted before the Court of Appeals of Athens.

Nasia Gkouma

Natalia Kapsi

Natalia is a senior associate of our healthcare, pharma & life sciences practice. She focuses on corporate, commercial, pharmaceutical and intellectual property law. She has experience in advising multinational healthcare companies on regulatory, commercial and compliance issues, with an emphasis on regulations, standards and codes of practice related to the marketing and promotion of pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Natalia also provides advice to multinational tobacco companies on a wide variety of regulatory and commercial matters, particularly the marketing, promotion and advertising of Next Generation Products (NGPs). In addition, she focuses on all areas of IP—such as trademarks, copyrights and patents—advising clients on both contentious and non-contentious IP issues and representing them before the Administrative Committees, as well as Civil and Administrative Courts. Natalia regularly represents international and domestic clients on corporate and commercial matters of day-to-day operation, including the negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts. She was admitted to the Piraeus Bar in 2015 and joined us in 2019. Natalia is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

Elpida Karathodorou

Elpida Karathodorou is a Senior Associate and focuses on corporate, commercial and M&A. She advises international businesses planning to operate in Greece on their establishment, structuring and their day-to-day corporate commercial practices. She also has been involved in a wide range of multinational M&A transactions by carrying out legal due diligence and drafting transactional documentation for the completion of acquisitions. She has finally extensive experience in advising corporate clients on employment matters related to their day-to-day operation in Greece, including employment contracts, secondment of employees, redundancies, assignment of personnel through temp-work agencies while etc. She was admitted to the Thessaloniki Bar in 2010 and joined our firm in 2012. Elpida is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

Alex Karopoulos

Alex Karopoulos is a partner of our tax practice and heads our Tax Controversy group. As a leader of our tax controversy & litigation practice Alex has extensive experience in advising multinational companies on all stages of tax controversy. He represents clients before the tax authorities in the context of tax audits and all court instances, including the Supreme Administrative Court. He currently litigates some of the biggest tax assessments ever made in Greece and has won multi-million tax disputes concerning income tax and VAT. Alex has also successfully challenged before the courts the legality of taxes, leading to their abolishment. Alex also specialises in VAT and other indirect taxes (including stamp duty and insurance premium tax) and has extensive experience in advising on the indirect tax treatment of a broad range of cross-border and local transactions carried out by multinational companies. He regularly advises on the indirect tax aspects of corporate reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions. Alex works with multinational clients across most industries, including financial and insurance services, real estate, public procurement, energy, IT, aviation, pharma, travel and retail. Alex teaches VAT in the Advanced Diploma in International Taxation courses, as well as shipping taxation in the Athens University of Economics and Business. He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 1999 and joined our firm in 2001.

Rania Koliouli

Rania is a Senior Associate focusing on corporate, commercial and M&A law. She advises domestic and international corporate clients both on matters of corporate/ commercial nature related to their day-to-day operation as well as on M&A transactions, being involved in the due diligence work required as well as in the drafting of the relevant transactional documentation. She was admitted to the Athens Bar Association in 2018 and joined our firm in 2022. Rania is admitted before the Court of Appeals.

Theodore Konstantakopoulos

Theodore is head of our TMT & Data practice. Theodore has extensive experience in advising technology multinationals, global telcos and social media companies on issues relating to new technologies and media, covering all aspects of electronic communications, data protection, cybersecurity, content regulation, intellectual property, telecommunications and e-commerce law. He also advises on consumer protection, marketing, product labelling and product liability matters. His advice pertains to novel and complex issues on cloud computing, connected devices and blockchain solutions, while he often interacts on issues of regulatory practice with the Hellenic Data Protection Authority and the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission. Theodore is included in the European Data Protection Board (EDPB)'s Support Pool of Experts for the fields of "Technical expertise in New Technologies and Information Security" and "Legal expertise in New Technologies”. He is a regular contributor in various technology law publications and guest speaker in data privacy fora in Greece and abroad. Theodore is admitted before the Court of Appeals. He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2007 and joined our firm in 2022.

Nikolaos Kostakopoulos

Nikolaos is a Senior Associate in our Litigation & Arbitration practice, specialising in civil and commercial litigation and enforcement proceedings. His experience covers a wide range of disputes, including complex contract and shareholder conflicts, distribution, agency and franchise disputes, construction and real estate claims, banking and finance litigation, insolvency-related proceedings, and enforcement proceedings. Nikolaos also advises clients on various business transactions and commercial agreements. Nikolaos was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2017, ranking first in his class and joined our firm in 2026. He is admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals.

Nikos Koukos

Nikos is a senior associate and advises international and domestic corporate clients οn a wide array of issues with a primary focus on the areas of public procurement and energy law where he regularly advises on regulatory/compliance matters. Nikos also has significant experience in the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts and M&A transactional work. He has been involved in numerous financing, capital markets and corporate acquisition projects and has extensive experience in coordinating and conducting legal due diligence for such projects. His experience also covers public procurement law. He has advised on a regular basis multinational companies and successfully led business teams throughout all stages of international tender processes, from responding to call for tenders to tender related dispute procedures in and out of court as well as during the execution of ongoing contracts. Nikos is admitted before the Supreme Court. He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2010 and joined our firm in 2021.

Anastasia Kritikou

Senior Associate

Maria Lampadaki

Maria focuses on competition, anti-trust, M&A law, intellectual property, corporate and commercial law. Her practice covers a wide spectrum of matters pertaining to EU, French and Greek competition law, including cartels, abuse of dominance, merger control, state aid and related issues. Maria is also engaged in carrying out legal due diligences, advising clients on company establishment and structuring, ongoing corporate governance, their entry into commercial agreements and contracts, in drafting share purchase and ancillary agreements and in negotiating for related issues according to the Harvard Negotiation method (attended in Paris). Maria is a PhD candidate in competition law and an active member of two law research institutes in Paris; she was also a Teaching Fellow at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2012, qualified as French lawyer in 2017 and joined our firm in 2020. Maria is admitted before the Court of Appeals. EDUCATION \tUniversity of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (Ph.D. candidate, Competition Law) \tUniversity of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (LL.M., Public Law) \tUniversity of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (LL.M., Public Business Law) \tUniversity of Athens, School of Law (LL.B.) LANGUAGES \tGreek \tEnglish \tFrench

George Louizos

George is a Senior Associate of our real estate group. His line of practice involves real estate matters, such as property acquisitions and disposals, commercial and residential lease agreements, establishment of in rem securities on real estate and due diligence of real estate portfolios. George was admitted to the Athens Bar Association in 2021 and joined our firm the same year.

Dimitris Machaliotis

Dimitris is a Senior Associate of our Public Procurement & Concessions practice. He advises multinational companies on a regular basis in relation to their participation in public procurement procedures being responsible for the preparation of all the relevant documentation and formalities throughout the tender processes and advising the business teams on the interpretation of the RFP terms and conditions to ensure compliance with the RFP. He has also been involved in tender related litigation procedures both before the administrative authorities as well as before the administrative courts. Dimitris is also involved in the drafting, reviewing and negotiation of commercial contracts and conducting due diligence for energy projects. He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2015 and joined our firm in 2022. Dimitris is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

Anastasia Makri

Anastasia Makri is head of our Energy and Insurance practice groups. Her areas of practice are M&A and project development, with a focus on energy and infrastructure. She has worked on large-scale projects involving private entities and state agencies and has extensive experience in transactions involving complex commercial contracts and negotiations. From 2009 to 2017 she led the firm’s legal team that successfully supported the implementation of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, one of the largest and most complex construction projects in Greece hosting the new venues of the Greek National Library and the Greek National Opera. She regularly advises clients on various energy, privatization and infrastructure projects. Anastasia’s expertise covers insurance and regularly advises international and local insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries on insurance transactions, insurance regulatory, and contractual matters. Prior to joining the firm she held in-house counsel position for a major credit insurance company. Anastasia was admitted to the Piraeus Bar in 2000 and joined our firm in 2007. Anastasia is admitted before the Court of Appeal.

Nikos Maltezos

Nikos Maltezos is a senior associate of our tax practice. Nikos specializes in income, real estate, gift and inheritance taxation. His practice also covers estate and wealth transfer planning for high net-worth individuals and families. He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2018 and joined our firm in 2019. Nikos is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

George Martsekis

George Martsekis is a Senior Associate in our Litigation & Arbitration practice. He has seven years’ experience across complex cross border disputes. His practice spans high value litigation and international commercial and investment arbitrations under leading rules (including ICC, LCIA and ICSID), with a sector focus on energy, construction, M&A, and financial services. His experience also includes drafting and negotiating cross-border distribution and franchise agreements, as well as conducting legal due diligence on significant M&A transactions, bringing commercially grounded insight to contentious mandates. Before joining Zepos & Yannopoulos, George trained and practiced with leading law firms in New York, Washington, D.C., London, Copenhagen, and Athens. He holds a PhD (summa cum laude) in International Arbitration and was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School during his doctoral studies. George has published extensively on international arbitration, including the monograph Good Faith in International Commercial Arbitration (Routledge, 2025). He is admitted to the Athens Bar (Court of Appeals) since 2019 and joined the firm in January 2026.

Emmanouil Mavrantonakis

Emmanouil is a Senior Associate of our firm’s Litigation & Arbitration department. He specialises in international commercial arbitration and litigation of civil and commercial disputes. Emmanouil has extensive experience representing clients before arbitral tribunals and state courts in complex cases involving contract law, corporate law, energy law, and tort. His practice also includes setting-aside proceedings against arbitral awards and proceedings for the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. His doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Law of Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg, titled The Prohibition of Revisiting the Merits in International Commercial Arbitration, was awarded in 2022 the German Arbitration Institute’s (DIS) award for outstanding dissertations in the field of arbitration law. He regularly publishes in leading Greek and international legal journals across the fields of arbitration and civil procedure. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Chronika Dikonomikou Dikaiou (Chronicles of Civil Procedure). Alongside his legal practice, since 2022 he has been repeatedly appointed to teach Civil Procedure and Arbitration Law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at the Faculty of Law of the Democritus University of Thrace. He has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 2017 and joined our firm in 2022. Emmanouil is admitted before the Supreme Court.

Sonia Melegou

Sonia Melegou is the head of our real estate practice.. With over 15 years' experience in the real estate practice advising international and domestic clients she has a solid track record on property transactions, such as acquisitions and disposals, commercial and residential lease agreements, and sale and lease back arrangements. She has also significant experience in the creation of in rem securities and the restructuring of collaterals, as well as in the due diligence of real estate portfolios. She has also worked with multinational clients active in the luxury goods business regarding trademark infringement matters and anti-counterfeiting strategies. Sonia also represents clients before the First Instance Court and the Court of Appeals, on disputes arising from real estate, leases, trademark infringement, breach of contract, recovery of debts and claims and tort. Sonia is also a CEDR Accredited Mediator and one of the first 50 mediators accredited by the Greek Ministry of Justice. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2000 and joined our firm in 2001 and she is admitted before the Supreme Court.

Danai Mini

Danai Mini is a Senior Associate. She is a member of our energy group providing advice on the energy legal framework, as well as on related regulatory issues and procedures. Danai is involved in due diligence activities and transactional work related to energy M&A projects in Greece. Her practice includes advice on insurance law matters and is a member of our insurance group. Danai is admitted before the court of first-instance. She is admitted to the Athens Bar Association since 2020 and joined our firm in 2021.

Mariliza Myrat

Efthymis Naoumis

Efthymis is a partner in our finance & capital markets group. His primary focus is capital markets. Efthymis acts for lenders, borrowers, credit and financial institutions in various types of projects, including ECM/DCM transactions. He also regularly advises clients on corporate governance and compliance matters. Prior to joining our firm, Efthymis was involved in several M&A projects and advised investment firms and other financial institutions on day-to-day issues, as well as on complex and high-profile transactions, both domestic and international. Efthymis is admitted before the Court of Appeals. He was admitted to the Athens Bar Association in 2011 and joined our firm in 2021.

Stathis Orfanoudakis

Stathis Orfanoudakis is a partner of our M&A practice. Stathis focuses on corporate, commercial, competition, M&A and intellectual property law. He has experience in international business transactions, including the establishment of joint ventures, share and asset deals and corporate restructurings. Stathis’s practice covers a wide range of matters pertaining to EU and Greek competition law, from merger clearance filings to representation of clients before competition authorities, as well as antitrust corporate compliance. Stathis also regularly advises international and domestic clients on corporate and commercial matters of their day-to-day operation, including the negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts. He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2013 and joined our firm in 2018. Stathis is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

Violeta Panagiotopoulou

Violeta is a partner 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.

Danae Papadatou

Danae is a partner of our Litigation & Arbitration practice with extensive experience in complex court litigation as well as in domestic and international arbitration. Her in-depth legal acumen coupled with strategic foresight in anticipating opposing arguments and crafting effective counterstrategies has yielded a remarkable success record in high-stakes cases with multifaceted legal questions. She handles disputes addressing a wide range of civil, commercial and corporate law matters, both domestic and cross-border, including inter alia contractual breaches, specialised commercial agreement disputes with particular focus on distribution, agency, franchise and energy, corporate conflicts comprising shareholders’ disputes and directors’ liability, intellectual property rights protection and tort litigation involving among others unfair competition, white-collar crime and product liability claims. Danae provides sophisticated advisory services encompassing pre-litigation risk assessment and dispute prevention strategies, negotiation of complex commercial agreements, contract analysis and review and due diligence. She also delivers tailored solutions for individuals seeking bespoke estate planning guidance, whilst providing expert advice on multi-jurisdictional inheritance and family law matters. The clientele she serves spans a diverse portfolio of Greek and multinational corporations across key business sectors alongside high-net-worth individuals from domestic and international backgrounds. Danae is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2016 and joined our firm in 2019.

Argyrios Papaefthymiou

Argyrios is a Senior Associate of our Antitrust & Competition practice. He has extensive experience on a wide range of advisory, investigative and transactional competition and regulatory matters, including cross-border merger control, antitrust, State aid, foreign subsidies and foreign direct investment screening. He advises corporates and private equity clients across diverse sectors, including aviation, digital markets, chemicals, construction, consumer goods, energy, finance, pharmaceuticals, sports, technology and telecommunications. Prior to joining Zepos & Yannopoulos, Argyrios worked for a number of years as a competition lawyer in international law firms in London and Brussels. Before that, he completed traineeships at the European Commission (DG COMP, State aid – financial institutions) and the World Trade Organization. Argyrios is formally trained as a lawyer and an economist. He is dually qualified in Greece (Court of Appeals) and England and Wales (Solicitor of the Senior Courts). He joined our firm in 2025.

Rania Papakonstantinou

Rania Papakonstantinou is a partner and head of our employment & labour practice. Rania has extensive experience in advising international and domestic clients on employment and labour matters. She regularly advises on work-force reductions, hiring and separation of executive employees, transfers of undertakings, employee benefits and collective redundancies. She also handles the employment aspects of various international business transactions, including corporate restructurings, privatizations, close-downs, and mergers and acquisitions. Rania is recognized by many international legal publications as a leading practitioner in her field in Greece. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2000 and joined our firm in 2001. Rania is admitted before the Court of Appeals.

Anna Paraskeva

Anna Paraskeva is a partner of our private clients practice. Anna specializes in income, real estate, gift and inheritance taxation. She focuses mainly on tax planning for high net-worth individuals, expatriation planning and asset planning. Her practice also extends to advising charitable organizations. Anna has extensive experience in advising companies on the implementation of employee incentive schemes, from a Greek tax perspective. She was admitted to the Piraeus Bar in 2007 and joined our firm within the same year. Anna is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

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Katerina Pilichou

Katerina is a Senior Associate of our Real Estate practice. She has over 10 years of experience advising international and domestic clients in a wide range of real estate projects and transactions, including the review, drafting and negotiation of all documentation regarding real estate acquisitions, disposals, commercial and residential leases. In addition, she manages and delivers due diligence exercises on real estate portfolios. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2009 and joined our firm in 2024. Katerina is admitted before the Supreme Court.

Ioanna Poulakou

Ioanna Poulakou is a senior associate of our corporate commercial practice. Ioanna focuses on corporate and commercial law. She regularly provides legal advice to domestic and international corporations on Greek corporate law issues, including company formation and establishment formalities, and provides support on issues related to their day-to-day operation. She is also regularly involved in corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions. Furthermore, she has participated in several due diligence exercises, mainly examining compliance with corporate obligations and formalities. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2009 and to the New York Bar in 2014. She joined our firm in 2011. Ioanna is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

Dimitra Rachouti

Dimitra Rachouti is a partner of our energy practice. She has enhanced knowledge of the Greek and EU energy regulation and long experience in advising international and domestic clients in a wide range of energy projects, including RES and conventional power generation projects, storage projects, electricity and natural gas transmission projects. She is specialized in advising on regulatory issues, in the drafting and negotiation of M&A documentation and corporate PPA(s) and in leading due diligence reviews in connection with the acquisition or financing of energy projects. Her experience also includes advising clients on the environmental, real estate and bankability aspects of energy projects. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2004 and joined our firm in 2024. Dimitra Rachouti is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

Athina Skolarikou

Athina Skolarikou is a partner and heads our Corporate & Commercial practice. She focuses on corporate and commercial law and consumer protection, contracts and M&A transactions. She has extensive experience in general corporate practice, advising multinational corporations on structuring their business in Greece, company formation, general corporate matters, corporate governance as well as regulatory and compliance issues. She regularly advises international and domestic clients on international business transactions and has significant experience in handling complex and sophisticated cross border M&A projects, including joint ventures, corporate restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions. She is also engaged in structuring all kinds of commercial and contractual arrangements, including lease agreements. She has worked with multinational clients active in the IT, technology and telecommunications sector, as well as in the hotel and leisure industry, advising on a wide range of regulatory, corporate, commercial, contractual and compliance issues. She joined our firm in 1997 and was admitted to the Athens Bar in 1998. Athina is admitted before the Greek Supreme Court.

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Myrto Stavrinou

Myrto Stavrinou is a senior associate of our tax & accounting practice. Myrto has in-depth experience in real estate projects and regularly advises international and domestic clients on the structure of their property acquisitions, financing arrangements and a variety of tax issues relating to real estate (such as corporate income tax, 15% special real estate tax, real estate transfer taxes, annual property taxes, etc.). She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 1998 and joined our firm in 2000. Myrto is admitted before the Court of Appeals.

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Iraklis Tsakopoulos

Iraklis has extensive experience in both constitutional and administrative law, in a vast array of legal fields. These include tax law, tax and administrative procedures law, public procurement law, investment, business and professions licensing regulations, radio and television law, as well as interim remedies and precautionary measures issues. As a member of the Court he was part of numerous administrative, legislative and judicial committees and councils, such as the drafting committee for the Code of Administrative Procedures, the Miscarriages of Justice Court and the Disciplinary Council of the Council of State. He has also taught in various seminars organized by the Council of State, the National School of Judges and the Athens Bar Association. Iraklis Tsakopoulos joined our firm in 2018, after having served the Council of State (Supreme Administrative Court) for more than thirty years—the last nine as Councilor of State.

Irene Tsiosta

Irene Tsiosta is a senior associate of our private clients practice. She is mainly involved in advising individuals on tax law issues. Her international tax law studies enable her to handle income, real estate, gift and inheritance taxation matters for multinational families. Her practice also includes tax compliance matters. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2016 and joined our firm in 2017. Irene is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

Diana Tsourapa

Diana Tsourapa is a partner of our tax practice. Diana focuses on tax controversy & litigation and she has extensive experience in handling tax audits of multinational companies, including tax matters such as income tax and transfer pricing, VAT, stamp duty and real estate taxes. She works closely with clients in order to determine the appropriate line of defense and represents them before tax authorities and courts of all instances, including the Supreme Administrative Court. In addition, Diana has extensive experience in advising multinational companies across most industries on the full scope of corporate tax issues arising in Greece. She also advises clients on matters of international tax regarding cross-border transactions, corporate restructurings, mergers and acquisitions. Diana is admitted before the Court of Appeals. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2012 and joined our firm in 2019.

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Paris Tzoumas

Paris Tzoumas is a partner and head of Finance. Paris’s practice focuses on corporate lending, transactional banking and capital markets, as well as project finance and PPPs. Paris is also involved in advising clients on regulatory matters covering an array of banking and investment services considerations. Paris acts for lenders, borrowers, project companies and construction joint ventures in various types of financing projects, such as project finance and real estate financings, acquisition financing and corporate loans. He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2013 and joined our firm in 2017. Paris is admitted before the Court of First Instance.

Anastasia Veneti-Pagoni

Anastasia focuses on real estate, dispute resolution and corporate law and commercial contracts. Her practice involves real estate matters, such as property acquisitions, commercial and residential lease agreements, as well as the establishment of in rem securities on real estate. Anastasia represents clients on a regular basis before the First Instance Court, the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court, with respect to disputes arising from real estate, breach of contract, recovery of debts and claims and tort. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2011 and joined us in 2018. Anastasia is admitted before the Supreme Court.

Yerassimos Yannopoulos

Yerassimos is the co-managing partner and head of our tax & accounting practice. For more than 25 years he is focusing on tax planning for multi-national personal, active business and investment activities, with a particular emphasis on tax structuring for Greek and non-Greek business owners and investors. An important part of Yerassimos’ work involves assisting families and their family offices on asset structuring with the formation, management and periodic evaluation of multinational and multi-generational centralized control and management structures. In addition to numerous speaking engagements, organisation memberships and publications, Yerassimos has lectured at the Athens School of Economics on International Tax Law (Post-Graduate programme on Taxation) from 2003 to 2012.

Evangelia Yotakou

Evangelia Yotakou is a senior associate of our tax litigation practice and dispute resolution team. Evangelia focuses on tax litigation and on alternative dispute resolution (out-of-court and judicial settlements) in matters of direct and indirect taxation. Evangelia is admitted before the Court of First Instance. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2012 and joined our firm in 2015.

Efstathia Yperifanou

Efstathia is a Senior Associate of our Energy practice group. With in-depth knowledge of the evolving energy regulatory framework, including RES, storage, and offshore projects, she advises clients on regulatory and permitting matters throughout the project lifecycle. She has extensive experience in due diligence and risk assessment activities in relation to acquisition and financing of energy projects. Efstathia is actively involved in M&A transactions and project development, including drafting transaction documentation and advising on corporate and commercial law issues. In addition, she is engaged in drafting and negotiating project agreements in the construction sector. Previously, she gained experience in project finance transactions, particularly through participation in complex transactions related to energy and infrastructure projects by drafting and negotiating finance documents. Her experience also includes advising on real estate and bankability issues related to project development.

Manolis Zacharakis

Manolis Zacharakis is a partner of our employment & labour practice. He works closely with the firm’s clients, advising on various employment matters arising from their operations in Greece, including termination of employment contracts, collective redundancies, working hours, pregnancy protection, employee handbooks, etc. Manolis is often engaged in the employment aspects of business transactions, such as corporate restructurings, mergers and close-downs. He also advises on various cross-border employment issues, including employee involvement procedures related to the establishment of Societas Europaea, international assignments, etc. Manolis is admitted before the Supreme Court. He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2003 and joined our firm in 2004.

Dimitrios Zepos

Dimitris Zepos is the managing partner of our firm. As a member in our corporate commercial practice he has advised foreign legal entities operating in Greece on a wide array of issues related to their establishment and operation in the country. He has guided foreign clients, both corporate and high-net-worth individuals, through the intricacies of doing business in Greece. Dimitris also consults corporate clients, mostly from the US and western Europe on compliance and business crimes related matters. He was admitted to the Athens Bar in 1992 and joined our firm in the same year.

Maria Zoupa

Maria leads our firm’s corporate tax advisory and compliance team. She advises multinationals on the full spectrum of corporate and international tax matters relevant to their Greek business, involving entry in the market/set up guidance, financing, operation, restructuring or exit of their Greek subsidiaries. Maria commonly advises clients on tax compliance aspects, assisting them determine tax risks and remediation measures and is handling corporate and international tax disputes. Maria is also active in M&As, assisting clients with tax due diligence, negotiations and structuring of transactions. She also specialises in energy taxation and has extensive experience in tax matters relevant to the acquisition, sales and generally restructurings of businesses active in the energy industry. She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 1999 and joined our firm in 1998. Maria is a member of the firm’s executive committee.