King & Spalding LLP

Partner

Joe Akrotirianakis is a partner in the Business Litigation Practice Group. He is an accomplished trial lawyer who has first-chaired or co-chaired 35 trials and arbitrations. He has never lost a jury trial or bench trial. Joe represents both plaintiffs and defendants across a broad spectrum of industries, including technology, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, and international shipping, transportation and logistics, among others. A seasoned commercial litigator, and a decorated former federal prosecutor, he has litigated matters of the most complex and difficult caliber throughout his more than 25-year career.

Mr. Akrotirianakis regularly practices before federal and state courts throughout California and nationally in matters involving complex commercial litigation, unfair competition, business torts, intellectual property, and federal and state regulatory investigations and defense. His work prosecuting and defending matters involving cutting-edge legal theories in high-profile matters brought under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, the Lanham Act, the California Unfair Competition Law and similar laws in other states has been repeatedly recognized in the legal press and mainstream media.