Ms Dina Kouvelou > Nikolinakos & Partners Law Firm > Athens, Greece > Lawyer Profile
Nikolinakos & Partners Law Firm Offices
182 MESOGEION AVENUE
15561 ATHENS
Greece
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Ms Dina Kouvelou
Work Department
TMT & Digital Business, Data Protection & Cybersecurity; Antitrust & Competition Law; Dispute Resolution & Agency Litigation; Corporate & Commercial
Position
Ms Dina Kouvelou is a Partner, head of the Data Protection and co-head of the TMT and Digital Business practices of Nikolinakos & Partners LLP. Dina is recommended as a leading TMT legal counsel by the most prestigious international legal directories.
Career
In addition to telecoms regulatory issues, Dina focuses to a significant effect on data privacy, e-commerce, information security, risk management and on-line gaming & betting. Dina also has vast experience of large outsourcing IT projects and advises clients on every aspect concerning online payment; cloud-based services; IoT; big data; AI; software licensing; interactive entertainment; advertising and consumer protection issues.
During the last 20 years, Dina’s professional career has spanned TMT and data protection policy and law, competition law and corporate/commercial law experience in, amongst others, the following roles:
– General Counsel and Head of Legal & Regulatory Affairs in a leading alternative fixed telecoms operator and in a mobile operator in Greece;
– senior competition law and regulatory policy advisor in the Legal Department of the National Regulatory Authority (EETT); and
– legal consultant in regulatory, competition law and commercial law projects with Greek and international law firms and consultancies.
Dina is certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals: Certified International Privacy Professional / Europe (CIPP/E).
Dina is also involved in all aspects of corporate governance and is active in corporate transactions (mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures), as well as change of control transactions. She also counsels businesses in connection with structuring, drafting and negotiating transactions that include shareholders’ agreements, supply and distribution agreements, marketing and outsourcing.
With regard to competition law, her litigation experience includes, inter alia, claims for refusals to deal, price discrimination, market dominance, predation, leveraging, bundling and tying.
Languages
English, French, German, Greek.
Memberships
Athens Bar Association.
Education
National University of Athens, School of Law (LLB); University College of London – Queen Mary (LLM, computer and communications law).
Lawyer Rankings
Greece > TMT
(Leading individuals)Nikolinakos & Partners Law Firm has a specialist practice that covers telecoms and technology matters, data protection, artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Reflective of the firm’s work for high-profile clients, it provides ongoing support to Airbnb on the Greek framework concerning the sharing economy, as well as the status of Information Society service providers. It also recently assisted Netflix International with technology law and data protection issues. Dina Kouvelou and Nikos Nikolinakos jointly lead the team, and Alexis Spyropoulos is also a name to note.
Greece > Dispute resolution
(Leading individuals)The sound practice at Nikolinakos & Partners Law Firm is led by managing partner Nikos Nikolinakos, Alexis Spyropoulos and Dina Kouvelou. It is trusted with highly complex disputes from significant international and domestic clients, including Vodaphone, Airbnb, Facebook, Lamda Hellix and Volton Hellenic Energy. The team’s expertise extends into an array of disputes, including TMT, data protection, competition and IP litigation. It frequently represents clients before the civil and administrative courts and national regulatory authorities.
Greece > EU and competition
Nikolinakos & Partners Law Firm is highlighted for its strengths in matters involving the interface between competition and sectors such as technology, telecoms and life sciences. Its team, which comprises three partners, is also knowledgeable about the interplay between competition and intellectual property, as well as data protection. The practice is led by Nikos Nikolinakos and Dina Kouvelou. Recent work included advising Airbnb on the Greek regulatory framework on the sharing economy and the status of Information Society service providers and platforms. Alexis Spyropoulos is also noted.
Comparative Guides
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Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals - Greece > Dispute resolution
- Leading individuals - Greece > TMT
- TMT - Greece
- Dispute resolution - Greece
- EU and competition - Greece