KELEMENIS & C0 - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate
- Associate Kelemenis & Co, Kelemenis.Com
Anna is a graduate of the law school of the University of Thrace, where she obtained her LL.B degree, and holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) in Computer and Communications Law from Queen Mary, University of London, where she graduated with a distinction as well as top of her class. She has a solid academic background in the area of Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law and closely follows a variety of related legal matters, including online defamation, online contracting, e-commerce disputes, data protection, online service providers' liability and intellectual property. Anna has been with Kelemenis & Co since October 2010. She acts for corporate clients on commercial and corporate law matters and advises on regulatory and compliance issues in various sectors, ranging from tourism and maritime to medical companies, energy and banking industries. Anna has significant experience in dealing with intellectual property and trademark infringement cases and also acts for the compliance of corporate clients with the laws and regulations for the protection of personal data. Anna is also involved in commercial litigation and out-of-court dispute resolution.
Practice areas
Corporate / Commercial
Athanasia is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Athens, where she obtained her LL.B. She had worked with Kelemenis & Co back in 2005 until 2011 as head of the litigation department. Before first joining Kelemenis & Co in 2005, she had worked as corporate counsel with Athens Olympic Broadcasting SA, the radio & TV services coordinator for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. She left Kelemenis & Co. to take up a post in the legal department of a large Greek company focusing on the sale and distribution of motor vehicles and returned in late 2018. Her current focus is on general corporate and commercial matters, enforcement and commercial litigation.
Athanasia is authorized to appear before the Supreme Court of Greece.
Practice areas
Corporate/Commercial
Ioanna has been with the firm since 2004 and heads its Corporate & Commercial Group. She holds a LL.B. from the University of Athens and a LL.M. in Commercial Law from the University of Bristol.
Ioanna specializes in M&A, where she has built a strong background over the past few years in dealing with multi-million acquisitions in various sectors (e.g. tourism, energy and commercial real estate), for which she has dealt with demanding due diligence exercises, restructuring and refinancing projects, and numerous corporate governance matters and shareholding arrangements.
She has also been heavily involved in corporate and project finance and has been acting for both corporate clients and financial institutions in high-volume, cross-border transactions involving various jurisdictions and complex security mechanisms.
From a sectoral perspective, her main focus is on hotel & leisure and energy. Her in-depth knowledge of these particular sectors draws on her combined experience of regulatory, corporate and finance-related matters.
Ioanna is a recommended lawyer for corporate and commercial, M&A, energy, and project finance in many leading international legal directories (e.g. Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, IFLR). According to Chambers Global 2013 and Chambers Europe 2013 "clients praise Ioanna Lazaridou for her proactivity, efficiency and practical mindset".
Ioanna is authorized to appear before the Supreme Court of Greece.
Konstantina is a graduate of the law school of the University of Athens, where she obtained her LL.B, and of the University of Piraeus, where she obtained a MSc in Energy Economics, Strategy and Law. She has been with Kelemenis & Co. since 2013 and is a member of the Litigation & Arbitration and of the Energy Groups. Amongst others, she deals with the legal approximation of Eastern European and Middle East economies with the EU acquis communautaire in energy (e.g. the transposition of Directive 2012/27/EU for Energy Efficiency in the legislation of Georgia and the transposition of 3rd Energy Packet in the legislation of Serbia). She focuses on civil, commercial and administrative litigation and contentious aspects of insolvency and liquidation proceedings.
Practice areas
Energy Law