We are pleased to introduce the speakers and the chair of the second session of the Corporate Transformations Conference!
• Mr Georgios Sotiropoulos is a Professor of Commercial Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a lawyer. He holds a Doctorate from the Law School of the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a postgraduate degree (LL.M. in Corporation Law) from New York University (N.Y.U.) School of Law, USA. His main fields of teaching (at undergraduate and postgraduate level), research and writing are: company, insolvency and accounting law. He has been a speaker at conferences in Greece and abroad and has served as a member of scientific and law-drafting committees.
• Mr Lazaros Grigoriadis is a Lecturer in Commercial Law at the Law School of Neapolis University. He graduated in 2005 from the Law Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a Master’s degree (2007) and a Doctorate (2012) in Commercial and Economic Law from the same University.
In 2007-2008 he worked as a Research Associate, as a Dimitrios Evrigenis Scholar, at the Centre for International and European Economic Law. In 2008-2012 he worked as a Research Associate in the Commercial and Economic Law Section of the Law Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During his studies, he received scholarships for outstanding performance from the State Scholarships Foundation, the “Alexander S. Onassis” Foundation and the “A. G. Leventis” Foundation.
His doctoral thesis was exceptionally accepted for publication by the internationally renowned publishing house Springer International Publishing. He has published many articles in Greek, European and American journals, which, like his doctoral thesis, have received a large number of citations from Greek and foreign scholarship. He has taken part as a speaker in training seminars for judicial officers in Greece and Cyprus and has given lectures, in Greek and English, in his fields of specialisation, at Universities in Greece, Cyprus and other countries.
• Mr Ioannis Linaritis is a Doctor of the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a lawyer before the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos), and holds a postgraduate degree (M.B.A. in International Banking & Finance, distinction merit) from the University of Birmingham (Business School), Great Britain. Main fields of research, scientific publications and guest lectures: company law, banking law, capital markets law, civil law. He has been a speaker at conferences and a member of the law-drafting committees for the revision of the law on S.A.s (Law 4548/2018) and for corporate transformations (Law 4601/2019). In June 2021 he was elected Assistant Professor of commercial law at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace.
• Mr Theodoros Katsas is an Assistant Professor of Commercial Law at the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace, where he has taught Company and Commercial Law, Insolvency Law, Banking Law and Capital Markets Law, Competition Law, Private International Law and Arbitration Law.
He studied at the Law Department of the University of Athens. He completed his postgraduate studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where he also wrote his doctoral thesis. He is a Mediator specialising in out-of-court dispute resolution (Tulane Law School New Orleans/Institut für Anwaltschaftsrecht HU-Berlin).
He is a member of the Hellenic Association of Commercial Law Scholars, a member of the Macedonian Union of Commercial Law, a member of the Society of Judicial Studies, and of the European Association of Banking and Financial Law (A.E.D.B.F.). He served as a member of the Law-Drafting Committee of Law 4601/2019 on Corporate Transformations.
