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"He is very engaging" and "well connected"  "Truly well-informed adviser – punctual, time-efficient and effective" (Chambers & Partners – 2016) 

 

 "Highly recommended" "Excellent" "Focused" (The Legal 500 – 2016) 

 

 "A legal genius with extremely advanced business and legal sense" (The Legal 500 – 2015) 

 

 

 

 

  • Managing Partner of Paraskevas Law Firm – only Greek law firm to have been included in the list of the 50 most innovative law firms in Europe by the Financial Times, only Greek law firm with a branch in London and an affiliate in Monaco, repeatedly candidate firm for the European Business Awards and consistently among the top law firms in the provision of Greek law services internationally. Recent accolades include:

 

 ➣ One of the top 250 firms worldwide (Intercontinental Finance & Law 250 Leading Firms 2016) 

 ➣ Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year – Greece – Client Choice Winner (CorpINTL Magazine Global Awards 2016)

 ➣ Best Offshore Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year – Greece (Acquisition International Offshore Excellence Awards 2016)

 ➣ Capital Markets Law Firm of the Year – Greece (Lawyers World Law Awards 2016)

 ➣ Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year – Greece – Client Choice Winner (CorpINTL Magazine Global Awards 2016)

 ➣ Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year for a Consecutive Year – Greece (ACQ5 Law Awards 2016)

 ➣ Mergers & Acquisitions Law Firm of the Year – Greece (Corporate LiveWire Innovation & Excellence Awards 2016)

 ➣ Best Corporate Restructuring Law Firm – Greece (Acquisition International Business Excellence Awards 2016)

 ➣ Restructuring & Insolvency Law Firm of the Year for a consecutive year – Greece (ACQ5 Law Awards 2016)

 

  • Treasurer of the Banking Law Committee of the International Bar Association

 

  • Registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the UK (SRA) as European Registered Lawyer

 

  • Attorney by the Supreme Court of Greece since 1996 – and ranked first at the bar exam of September 1987

 

  • Chairman of Paraskevas Société Anonyme Monégasque (Principality of Monaco)

 

  • Consistently named one of the top Mergers and Acquisitions attorneys by the International Who's Who of Business Lawyers (2005-2016) and by the Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading M & A Lawyers (2007-2016); consistently ranked among the leading practitioners according to Chambers and Partners, IFLR1000 and Legal500

 

  • 30 years experience in transactions and litigation that exceed $400bn in 70 countries – he has provided services to more than 50 major banks and 70 international law firms and has advised Governments, international organisations and over 250 major corporations, including: ABN Amro, Banco de Bogota, Barclays, Bertelsmann, Blackstone, British Aerospace, CA~IB, Capital Group, Christie’s, Commerzbank, Credit Suisse, Credit Suisse Asset Management, Credit Suisse Trust, Dassault, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Boerse, DVB Bank, European Investment Fund, Euroclear, Facebook, Fortis Group, Gazprom, General Motors, GIC Private Limited, Goldman Sachs, Google, Gucci, J. P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in administration), Lloyds TSB Bank, Lombard, Mees Pierson (Schweiz) AG, Merrill Lynch Bank of America, Metlife, Moneygram, Morgan Stanley, Natixis, Paramount Pictures, Pictet, Pimco, Porsche Holding, RBS, Rothschild Group, Samsung, Sanwa Bank, Sarasin, UBS, U.S. Olympic Committee, U.S. State Department, Verizon Communications, Visa Inc.,York Capital, Watson Pharmaceuticals and World Bank Group (pro bono)

 

  • Specialist Legal Advisor to the administrators of Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (in administration) (from 2008 to this day)

 

  • Contributor to the World Bank Group’s Doing Business annual reports for over a decade (pro bono)

 

  • Board member of the best in EIOPA stress tests Greek insurance company "Atlantic Union" (its shareholders include Basler / La Baloise) from 2010 to this day

 

  • Chairman of the London School of Economics Hellenic Alumni Association (LSE) (~ 3.000 graduates). During his tenure (2006-2010), the Association was revived and organized high profile events in collaboration with leading international institutions, such as JPMorgan, Citibank and Fortis, including personalities like Lord Paddy Ashdown among the illustrious keynote speakers and amassing large sums for the LSE

 

  • Counsel to the United States Government (State Department): helped to successfully complete decades of discussion with the Greek Government on the extension of the US diplomatic mission in Greece by purchasing the neighbouring property of the American Embassy in Athens; also represented, amongst other, the US Olympic Committee at the Athens Olympics in 2004

 

  • Member of the High Level Group of the European Commission on the Future of Industrial Relations and Managing Change in Europe (2002)

 

  • Legal expert and representative of Greece in international treaty negotiation on the law applicable to rights in securities held through intermediaries (2001 Hague Conference on Private International Law – 80 countries participating) and author of the relevant Greek chapter in the publication ‘Cross Border Collateral: Legal Risk and the Conflict of Law’ (edited by R. Potok, published by Butterworths)

 

  • Member of legislative committees: examples include involvement, in the capacity of special legal advisor to the leading international clearing system Euroclear, in the transposition of the Settlement Finality Directive into Greek law (Law 2789/2000) and participation in the Special Legislative Drafting Committee on the legal framework for leasing, factoring, venture capital and guarantee funds (Law. 2367/1995)

 

  • President (in his capacity as representative of the Chairing Hellenic Republic) of the European States at the UNCTAD World Conference on Privatisation (Geneva 1994), as well as member of the Advisory Group on Privatisation of OECD (Balkans, countries of the former USSR) and UNIDO (Southern Africa)

 

  • Secretary for Privatisation (1993-1999): the only incumbent to have served in that position for three governments of different parties, 18 ministers and deputy ministers members of the Interministerial Privatisation Committee – possibly the longest serving head of a privatisation program in the world; in recognition of his work he was named ‘super salesman’ by the Financial Times (9 June 1999)

 

  • President of the Greek Student Union in London (1986-1987), the largest student association after the National Student Union of Greece (EFEE)

 

  • Former member of the international advisory board of the largest Austrian investment bank CA~IB

 

  • Former international consultant of the oldest Dutch Bank, Mees Pierson (est. 1720)