We are pleased to introduce the speakers and the chair of the first session of the Corporate Transformations Conference!
• Mr Dimitris Avgitidis is a Professor of Commercial Law at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace, where he teaches, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, company law, capital markets law, insurance law, bankruptcy and restructuring law, consumer protection law and competition law.
He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens and obtained a Ph.D. from the University of London (King’s College) with a thesis on the liability of the parent company for the insolvency of its subsidiaries. He holds a postgraduate degree (Master of Law) in International Transactions Law from the London School of Economics, a postgraduate degree in Economics from Guildhall University of London (Master of Economics), as well as a diploma as a stockbroker at the London Stock Exchange (Certificate of Registered Representative).
He is a member of the Board of the Hellenic Association of Commercial Law Scholars, and has served as a regular member of the Hellenic Competition Commission and a member of the Board of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission, and also as head of the Law-Drafting Committee of Law 4601/2019 on Corporate Transformations.
• Mr Apostolos Karagounidis is a Professor of Commercial Law at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace, where he has taught, at undergraduate level, the general part of commercial law, commercial company law, law of negotiable instruments, maritime law, banking law, capital markets law and competition law and, at postgraduate level, commercial company law, market law and consumer protection law.
He studied at the Law Department of the School of Law and Economic Sciences of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where he also wrote his doctoral thesis on: “Irregular merger and division of sociétés anonymes”. He completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Paris X – Nanterre, specialising in Business Law (Droit des Affaires).
He is a member of the Hellenic Association of Commercial Law Scholars, a founding member and member of the board of the Macedonian Union of Commercial Law, a member of the Society of Judicial Studies, and a member of the Board of the Society of Jurists of Northern Greece. He served as a member of the Law-Drafting Committee of Law 4601/2019 on Corporate Transformations.
• Ms Konstantina Gkouti is a lawyer at the law firm KBVL | Deloitte Legal. She specialises in business and company law and provides legal advice to listed and non-listed companies across the whole range of commercial law, with an emphasis on capital markets law, competition law, corporate transformations and restructuring.
She graduated from the Law Department of the Democritus University of Thrace. She holds a postgraduate degree from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Commercial Law, specialising in Maritime Law, and a postgraduate specialisation degree in Financial Management from the Department of Accounting and Finance of the Athens University of Economics and Business. She is a doctoral candidate at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace.
She is a member of the law-drafting committee for the transposition into Greek law of Directive (EU) 2019/2121 as regards cross-border conversions, mergers and divisions.
