Career Biography

Katerina Patsantara is General Counsel at GASTRADE S.A., granting a full range of legal services related to regulatory and energy compliance matters, corporate issues of the company, as well as the procedures for the awarding, drafting and execution of all contracts involved (procurement, services, leasing, works, supply etc.). Her practice focuses on commercial, corporate, energy, maritime, banking, civil and public law. Patsantara is also a high-level litigation and counselling lawyer, advising and representing GASTRADE S.A. in litigation cases, negotiations of contracts and corporate housekeeping matters. Her combined experience in both in house counselling and litigation is rare to find, possessing second-to-none advisory expertise in landmark business energy transactions in Greece during the latest years.

Prior her present position, Patsantara was a Senior Associate at Fortsakis, Diakopoulos, Mylonogiannis & Associates Law Firm (FDMA) and Legal Advisor to DEPA Networks S.A. (Holding Company of Attiki, Thessaloniki, Thessaly and rest of Greece Natural Gas Distribution Network Companies). She was a leading member of FDMA energy team, advising Greek and international clients in natural gas distribution, storage, supply and transportation cases, LNG and renewable energy projects granting a full range of legal services related to regulatory and energy compliance matters, corporate issues of the company, as well as the procedures for the awarding, drafting and execution of all contracts involved (procurement, services, leasing, works, supply etc.). She has advised Greek and international clients in natural gas distribution, storage, supply and transportation cases, LNG and renewable energy projects.

Patsantara has also practiced corporate, civil, banking, insurance, and commercial law, advising Greek and international corporations in planning and structuring their business transactions, several corporate issues and litigation. Patsantara has also experience in investment incentive laws applicable to private investments that contribute to the country’s development, having served as a specialised associate to the General Secretary of the General Secretariat of Strategic and Private Investments of the Greek Ministry of Development and Competitiveness from July 2014 to March 2015.

Patsantara has worked extensively with Prof. Theodore Fortsakis on renewable energy projects on behalf of the Greek Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change, drafting policies for the incorporation into Greek law of the highly complex EU Directive 2018/2001 “on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources” (REDII). Patsantara was a principle member of the working team for the Book “Energy Law” headed by Prof. Theodore Fortsakis – Dean of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, published by Kluwer Law International / Ant.N. Sakkoulas, Wolters Kluwer, Ant. N. Sakkoulas, Austin, Boston, Chicago, New York, The Netherlands, 2009, 2nd ed. 2014 (under press). Field of Research: Natural Gas- transportation, transmission, distribution.