Areas of Expertise: He specializes in the field of investment incentives, competition law, tax and commercial law, international and national arbitrations as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Arbitration experience: His engagement with arbitration is constant and his experience and expertise in said area of law is equivalent. Indicatively, for 3 consecutive years, he is appointed by the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) as President of the Arbitral Tribunal in arbitration proceedings with construction related objects for dispute settlement between Concession Companies and the Greek State. He has been appointed as an arbitrator many times and he systematically represents greek and foreign companies in international and national arbitrations, ad hoc and institutional.
Languages: Greek, English
Professional career: Attorney at law in Athens, qualified to practice before all Courts of all degrees, including the Supreme Court and Managing Senior Partner of the Law Firm DRYLLERAKIS AND ASSOCIATES. He served for more than 20 years as General Counsel and General Tax Counsel of the Exxon affiliates in Greece and subsequently of Shell Hellas, as well as Member of their Board of Directors and Management Teams. He has considerable and long experience in all matters of investments and privatizations, having acted in many cases as legal counsel of the Greek Public sector and of foreign and Greek investors. He served as regular member of the independent authorities “Hellenic Capital Market Committee” for three years and of the “Hellenic Competition Committee” for five years. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of several Greek companies. He is member of the Athens Bar Association, of the Board of the Hellenic Association of Law Firms, of the Panel of Conciliators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), of the Board of the Hellenic Corporate Governance Council (joint initiative of the Athens Stock Exchange and the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises), Treasurer of the Hellenic Association of European Law, member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA), of the Association of Greek Commercialists and of the Scientific Society of Administrative Law. Author of many legal books and articles published in legal and economic magazines. Lecturer in seminars and conferences in the areas of investment incentives, corporate law, tax law and competition law.