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Constantin Calavros

Constantin Calavros
Professor, President of the Hellenic Association for Arbitration, Managing Partner, Calavros Law Firm-Filios-Kloukinas, Athens
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Professor Constantin Calavros is the founder and managing partner of Calavros Law Firm-Filios-Kloukinas.

He is a Professor of Civil Procedure and International Arbitration Law at the Democrition University of Thrace. Professor Calavros heads the litigation and dispute resolution department of the Firm. He specializes in national and international litigation and arbitration. He has represented numerous clients before national courts of all degrees, the European Union Court in Luxembourg and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC).

Professor Calavros also deals with restructuring and companies' reorganisation, outsourcing and insolvency procedures. He has supervised and advised on some of the largest and most high-profile deals in the Greek market that range from corporate reorganisations to debt restructuring (including distressed debt and NPLs), and formal insolvency such as bankruptcy, judicial composition or liquidation. In this regard, he has acted as an advisor to Greek state controlled companies, Greek Government and ministers, especially in relation to privatization initiatives.

Professor Calavros acting as an external advisor to the Greek Association of Pharmaceutical Companies (SFEE) has also obtained in depth experience in pharmaceutical law and competition law matters.

Professor Calavros has been a member of various drafting committees which have revised Greek Civil Procedure Code.

Stavros Brekoulakis

Stavros Brekoulakis
Professor, Michael & Laura Hwang Chair, International Arbitration, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law
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Stavros Brekoulakis is the Michael and Laura Hwang Chair in International Arbitration at the National University of Singapore.

Stavros is the author of eight monographs, books and edited volumes and more than 30 articles in leading peer-reviewed law journals and is the General Editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement; Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management; the Co-editor of Kluwer's International Arbitration Law Library Series; and deputy Editor of Arbitration International.

Stavros has led several policy projects and advised governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organisations, including as Co-Chair of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration Task Force on Third Party Funding; member of the London Bar Reform Committee; the Steering Committee of the UNCITRAL Academic Forum on Investor-State Dispute Settlement; the Investment Expert Trade Advisory Group of the UK Department for International Trade, Governing body of ICCA; LCIA Court; and ICC'S Commission on Arbitration.

John Apsouris

John Apsouris
Group General Counsel, HELLENiQ ENERGY Holdings S.A.
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Attorney-at-Law, member of the Athens Bar Association, qualified to plead before the Supreme Court, holds a Law degree from Athens University and a Master's Degree (DEA) from the University of Aix-en-Provence (France). He speaks Greek, French, English, Spanish, and Italian. From January 1994 until November 2010, he was a partner at "Dryllerakis & Associates Law Firm", handling cases in corporate, commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, criminal law, mining law, bankruptcy and debt restructuring, arbitration/litigation of commercial law cases. Since December 2010, he is the General Counsel of Hellenic Petroleum Group (currently HELLENiQ ENERGY).

For several years, he served as a Board member and/or secretary to the Board of Directors of various Greek companies. Between 2013 and 2018, he was a member of the Supervisory Board of the "Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator (DESFA) S.A." Today, he is Chairman of the Board of ELPET VALKANIKI S.A., VARDAX S.A., and HELLENiQ DIGITAL S.A., and a Director in three other companies within the HELLENiQ ENERGY Group. Since 2020, John is the Chair of the Legal Issue Group of Fuels Europe (Division of the European Petroleum Refiners Association), he is also Vice-Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of the American Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and, since January 2019, is a member of the Hellenic Corporate Governance Council (HCGC) of the Athens Stock Exchange. He participates in the Working Groups of Corporate Governance and Industrial Permitting of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV). He regularly speaks at legal conferences and has published studies and articles in the Greek and international legal press.

Anna Mantakou

Anna Mantakou
Dr. jur., Independent Arbitrator, Managing Partner, Mantakou-Dougka Law Firm, Athens
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Managing Partner Mantakou-Dougka Law Firm, a "boutique" Law Firm specializing exclusively in arbitration. After her Law studies in Greece, she also studied Public and Private International Law and Strategic (Diploma) at the "The Graduate Institute of International Studies" in Geneva . Her Phd, on international arbitration, was sponsored by the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law. Dr. Mantakou is a member of the Athens Bar since 1987. She is:

Deputy Director of the Hellenic Institute of International and Foreign Law (State Entity by the Greek Ministry of Justice)

Member of the BOD of the "Hellenic Gas Transmission System Operator"(DESFA SA).

Member: International Experts' Committee : Supreme Court of the People's Republic of China. - Member of the BoD of SHAC.

Member International Arbitration Institute, Paris.

Secretary General of the Hellenic Association for Arbitration.

She was for 15 years (2003-2018) Court Member in the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC Paris .

Dr. Mantakou has 35 years experience in arbitration as counsel, co arbitrator, president of arbitral tribunals, expert witness in ad hoc arbitrations, under the ICC, LCIA ,SCC UNCITRAL Rules and Bilateral Investment Disputes. After 2011 she only serves as co-arbitrator or president of arbitral tribunals, merely on construction, energy and defense systems cases.

Paschalis Paschalidis

Paschalis Paschalidis
Partner, Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes, New York
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Paschalis Paschalidis is a partner at Gaillard Banifatemi Shelbaya Disputes.

He acts as counsel in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations under a variety of arbitral rules (ICSID, ICC, SCC, UNCITRAL, LAC) as well as in proceedings before the courts of EU Member States and the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Paschalis Paschalidis served as référendaire for First Advocate General Melchior Wathelet at the Court of Justice of the European Union. He also practiced as an associate in the international arbitration team of a major US law firm for over five years. In that capacity, he acted for international investors, States and State-owned entities in both investment and commercial disputes.