GREECE Law and Practice Contributed by: Anna Manda and Maria Kallidopoulou, Karatzas & Partners
Karatzas & Partners was founded in 1963 and specialises in banking and finance, capital mar - kets, competition, energy, M&A, privatisation, project finance, real estate, telecommunica - tions, data protection, IP, employment and tax law. The firm has ten partners, five senior coun - sels, 48 associates, nine trainee lawyers and 19 employees in supporting functions. Karatzas & Partners has one of the best antitrust practices in Greece and is involved in all aspects of EU and Greek competition law. The firm advises and represents domestic and international cli -
ents on cartel investigations before the Hellenic Competition Commission and on vertical agree - ments, sectoral inquiries, and market investiga - tions, as well as on infringements of Articles 1 and 2 of Law 3959/2011 and Articles 101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the Euro - pean Union. It supports undertakings in relation to dawn raids, the training of employees and the compiling and implementing of competition law compliance programmes, as well as with regard to day-to-day antitrust compliance matters.
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Anna Manda joined Karatzas & Partners in 2000 and became a partner in 2004. Anna leads the antitrust and competition, TMT and pharma departments, and also specialises in M&A and corporate and commercial law. Her extensive experience in antitrust and competition includes complex merger control matters, as well as state aid issues, cartel investigations and advising on antitrust compliance and day-to-day issues, including the launch of compliance programmes for large multinational corporations. Anna is a member of the Athens Bar Association and speaks Greek, English, French and Italian.
Maria Kallidopoulou joined Karatzas & Partners in April 2022 and is a senior associate. She advises on all aspects of EU, Greek and cross- jurisdictional competition law
matters across a wide range of sectors ‒ for example, merger control proceedings, cartels and abuse of dominance investigations, horizontal and vertical agreements, antitrust compliance, and state aid. Prior to joining the firm, Maria worked in competition law at two leading international law firms in Brussels and at the public procurement unit of the EC’s Directorate General for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs. She holds an LLM from Oxford University, is a member of the Thessaloniki Bar Association, and speaks Greek, English and German.
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