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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 is the Michael & Laura Hwang Professor in International Arbitration at the National University of Singapore and an arbitrator practicing at 3 Verulam Buildings (Gray's Inn).
He has been involved in international law and arbitration for more than 20 years and is widely recognised as a leading authority in the field. He is regularly listed in Who's Who Legal: Arbitration, Who's Who Legal: Construction and Who's Who Legal: Thought Leader, being included in the Legal 500 Arbitration Power List and ranked as a WWL Arbitration: Global Elite Thought Leader and one of the 25 most highly regarded arbitrators in the EMEA region.
He has been shortlisted twice for the Global Arbitration Review Best Prepared and Most Responsive Arbitrator Award and received the 2020 GAR Award for Best Public Speech.
His professional expertise focuses on both contract and investment treaty arbitrations in major infrastructure and investment projects, energy and natural resources projects, corporate and M&A disputes and commercial disputes. He has been appointed in more than 90 arbitrations (investment and commercial) as a chairman, sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and emergency arbitrator under all major arbitral institutions and the UNCITRAL Rules.
Stavros is currently the Vice-President of the ICC International Arbitration Court. He also serves or has served in several public positions including as member of the Governing Body of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration, ICC Commission on Arbitration, LCIA Court, Co-Chair of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration Task Force on the Rule of Law and Arbitration, Investment Expert Trade Advisory Group of the UK Department for International Trade, drafting committee of the Africa Arbitration Academy Model BIT, Co-Chair of the ICCA-Queen Mary Task Force on Third Party Funding, Expert Committee of the Permanent Forum of China Construction Law, Selection Panel of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund.
Stavros is widely regarded as a leading academic in the field of international law and arbitration and has been invited to give the prestigious Summer Course on Private International Law at the Hague Academy of International Law in 2026. His academic work includes the leading publications on Third Parties in International Arbitration, Arbitrability, ICCA-Queen Mary Report on Third Party Funding and numerous publications in leading international law journals and reviews. His academic work has been cited with approval by international arbitral tribunals and national courts in several jurisdictions, including the UK Privy Council, High Court of England and Wales, US Southern District of New York and Supreme Court of India.
Dr. Hamid Gharavi has acted as arbitrator or counsel in over 200 commercial institutional and/or ad hoc arbitrations as well as in over 50 investment arbitrations under foreign investment laws and/or bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, arising from a broad spectrum of issues and industries, including oil and gas, mining, military ordnance and defense, telecommunications, media, aviation, agency agreements, shareholder agreements, partnerships, distribution, sales, mergers and acquisitions, construction (including all types of design contracts and engineering projects), gambling, art, publicity, gaming, duty free, hospitality, real estate, cryptocurrency, advertisement, wood and derived products, pharmaceutical, waste management, utilities, water treatment plants, sanctions as well as sport related disputes involving commercial, disciplinary, and doping aspects.
He has been appointed as a member of the ICC Court (since 2024), as member of the Court of the Istanbul Arbitration Centre (ISTAC since 2015), as member of the Court of the LCIA (from 2008-2012), ), as member of the panel of arbitrators of the Asia Pacific International Arbitration Center (APIAC), as the President of the Board of the Tehran Regional Arbitration Centre (TRAC) as well as on all major panels, including SIAC, HKIAC, DIAC, ADCCAC, Arbitrate AD, CAS, CAfA, and ICSID (by the Kingdom of Cambodia).
Dr. Gharavi teaches investment arbitration in the Master program "Droit International Économique" at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and as a visiting professor abroad. He has published extensively, including books and articles in the main arbitration reviews, and is a regular speaker at conferences.
Dr. Gharavi holds a PhD from the University of Paris II, and post-graduate degrees from the New York University School of Law where he was a Hauser Global Scholar and University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
Both Chambers and Legal 500 rank him in Band 1 of arbitration counsel for France Chambers record that "Hamid has a larger-than-life personality and is personable and hard-working," and describes him as "extremely dynamic, fearless in hearings and able to think out of the box." Chambers also notes that Dr. Gharavi "earns considerable praise as an active and effective arbitrator in important cases. Interviewees note his valuable input during hearings, saying: ‘He always raises good questions that are material to the outcome of the case.'" In Legal 500, he is described as "absolutely brilliant" with "a busy practice as counsel in cases but [who] also has ‘impressive success attracting major appointments as arbitrator'." Lexology's Arbitration Index ranks him as a "Thought Leader" and describes him as "a star in the international arbitration arena" and "and excellent and eloquent advocate who represents his clients with passion and excellent legal knowledge".
He also regularly acts, and is extensively experienced, in all proceedings in support of arbitration including as a legal expert as well as arbitrator or counsel in mock arbitrations for purposes of provisional measures, annulment, enforcement and seizure in commercial and investment arbitrations.
Dr. Gharavi is also the founder of the first private standing mediation ("Gharavi on his firm's new mediation platform" and its accompanying rules: Derains & Gharavi Ad hoc Mediation Rules) and arbitral tribunal platform ("Why we launched a standing arbitration tribunal" and its accompanying rules: Derains & Gharavi Ad hoc Standing Arbitration Rules) operating under standalone ad hoc rules that he has developed as an innovative initiative to address the needs and challenges of the industry.
Before founding Derains & Gharavi, Dr. Gharavi was a partner at Salans (now Dentons) in Paris after having started his career at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP in New York.
