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Eirini Nikiforaki

Counsel Eirini specializes in Competition/Antitrust and Regulatory law with a focus on the Energy sector. She is a seasoned litigator, representing commercial & industrial clients on a wide range of Greek and EU antitrust/competition law, energy law and public law cases before the State Council, Administrative Courts and EU institutions. She provides litigation services on competition/regulatory compliance, commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust investigations/disputes, as well as strategic advice to the highly specialized needs of companies operating in regulated environments. She has rich experience in administrative litigation proceedings concerning energy producers, electricity traders and developers in relation to energy regulatory compliance, price adjustment disputes, market operation, competition law and constitutional challenges. Eirini teaches Competition Law and Regulation as a visiting lecturer in the post-graduate course of the Law Faculty of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens “Intangible Assets and Competition.” · Papapolitis & Papapolitis

GreeceCompetition / Antitrust, Regulatory

About

Counsel at Papapolitis & Papapolitis specializing in Competition/Antitrust and Regulatory law with a focus on the Energy sector. She is a seasoned litigator who represents commercial and industrial clients in Greek and EU antitrust, energy and public law matters before the State Council, Administrative Courts and EU institutions, and teaches Competition Law and Regulation as a visiting postgraduate lecturer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Practice areas

Competition / AntitrustRegulatoryEnergyDispute ResolutionPublic LawCorporate / M&ACommercial Contracts

Office

Expertise

Energy sector (power producers, electricity traders, developers)Greek and EU antitrust/competition lawAdministrative litigationAntitrust investigations and disputesRegulatory compliance and price adjustment disputesMarket operation and competition issuesConstitutional challenges

Education

  • Ph.D., EU Competition Law — Edinburgh University (UK)
  • LL.M., Intellectual Property, Company Law, International Commercial Arbitration — Edinburgh University (UK)
  • LL.B., National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Academic Executive Leadership course — Oxford Said Business School

Admissions

  • Supreme Court of Greece
  • Athens Bar