We are pleased to introduce the chair and the speakers of the fourth and final session of the Corporate Transformations Conference!
• Mr Georgios Triantafyllakis is a Professor of Law at DUTh and a Professor at the National School of Judges. He served as a member of the Hellenic Competition Commission (for a decade), as a member of law-drafting committees and of scientific associations. He has published monographs, university textbooks and a series of scientific studies in particular fields of commercial law, and has been elected Vice-President on the Board of the Hellenic Association of Commercial Law Scholars.
He is a graduate of the Law School of the University of Athens (with distinction) and holds a doctorate in commercial law from the Law School of the University of Tübingen, Germany.
• Ms Efi I. Kininis is an Assistant Professor of commercial law at the NKUA Law School. She holds a doctorate from the NKUA Law School, with previous studies at the Universities of Athens and London. Among other studies and contributions to collective works in Greek and English, she has published the following monographs: “The refusal to license intangible assets in competition law” (2004), “Collective Management Organisations of Copyright & Competition Law” (2001), “Issues of international jurisdiction in European insolvency law” (2007), IEL, Competition Law in Greece (edited by Dimitris Tzouganatos) (2015) [pp. 42-51, 58-79, 86-91, 142-143, 164-173, 182-193, 204-229], “Payment Services. The private-law aspects of Law 3862/2010” (2016). She has taken part in law-drafting committees on competition law and consumer protection. She was recently appointed Vice-President of the Insolvency Management Committee under Law 4738/2020.
• Mr Giorgos Babetas is an Assistant Professor of Commercial Law at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace, where he teaches, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, copyright law, industrial property law, unfair competition law, competition (antitrust) law, consumer protection law and partnership law. Since 2018 he has taught on the postgraduate programme “Law and Informatics” of the University of Macedonia and the Democritus University of Thrace.
He is a lawyer before the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos) and has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1991. He is also a member of the Hellenic Association of Commercial Law Scholars and a regular contributor to the journal “Chronika Idiotikou Dikaiou” (Private Law Chronicles).
He is the author of the books: “The commercial agency contract in competition law”, “Economic Dependence and Abusive Exploitation”, monographic studies on the “Dissolution of the partnership”, the “Compulsory Licence” in copyright law, and a large number of articles and studies, mainly in the law of commercial contracts, competition, copyright and companies. He has presented papers at conferences and seminars on copyright, competition and company law.
He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens (1984-1989) and obtained a Doctorate from the Law School of the University of Athens, with a thesis on the commercial agency contract in competition law, which he completed with a scholarship from the “State Scholarships Foundation”. He speaks German and English.
• Ms Lefkothea Dekas is a lawyer. She has served as Rapporteur – Member of the Hellenic Competition Commission and has been active within it for years, holding various positions. She is a Visiting Professor at the Université Aix – Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, where she teaches European Competition Law in the master’s programme Droit Européen des Affaires (European Business Law).
She studied in the Law Department of the Law School of the University of Athens and at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Institut d’Etudes Européennes, from which she obtained a degree specialising in European Community Law – Commercial Law (Droit des Affaires).
She has been a member of law-drafting committees, such as the Law-Drafting Committee for the transposition of Directive (EU) 2019/1 of the European Parliament and of the Council and the law-drafting committee for the transposition into national law of Directive 2014/104/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2014.
