Our legal team
Partners and Associates
Our Legal Team -
ENVLEX Group
Panagiotis Galanis
Managing Partner
Lawyer, PhD & Post-doc Law UoA
Fields of Interest;
Environmental Law, Urban Planning Law, Energy Law
Dimitrios Skaftouros
Senior Partner
Lawyer, PhD (c) Law UoA
Fields of Interest;
Administrative Law, Urban Planning Law, Arbitrary Building, Energy Law
Elli-Kyriaki Anastopoulou
Senior Partner
Lawyer, PhD & Post-doc Law UoA
Fields of Interest;
Public Procurement, Public Banking Law, Privatization Law
Aikaterini Papatheodorou
Junior Partner
Lawyer, LLM UniPi
Fields of Interest;
Private Environmental Law, Real Estate, Tort law, Criminal Environmental Law
Niki Anastopoulou
Engineer
MSc, Phd (c) NMUA
Fields of Interest;
REV, GIS, Building Certificates, Arbitrary Building Management
Theocharis Charalampopoulos
Associate
Lawyer, LLM Companies and Funding-Commercial Law, UoA
Fields of Interest;
Private Law, Criminal Law, Loans, Real Estate
Georgios Balatsoukas
Associate
Lawyer, LLM Criminal Law, UoA, LLM European Criminal Law, Panteion University
Fields of Interest;
Criminal Law, Commercial Law
Christina-Melinda Zerva
Engineer
1st Technical Office of Civil Engineering at 24 Foevis Street, Glyfada, 16674, 1st floor
2nd Office (Branch) at 3A Antheon Street, Glyfada, 16674, ground floor, I2
Independent associate engineer - Specialized in expropriations, settlements, shop licensing, specialized cases of urban planning interest
Secretary
Curriculum Vitaes (CVs)
Panagiotis Galanis
Μanaging Partner - CEO
Attorney-at-law, PhD, Post-doctoral Researcher Law UoA, Invited Teacher at Law School UoA
Panagiotis Galanis is an Attorney-at-Law, with an honors Doctorate from the Faculty of Law of UoA, from which he obtained an honors degree (LLB) in Law and an honors Master's Degree in Environmental, Urban Planning and Energy Law (LLM). He is currently a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Environmental Law in Faculty of Law of UoA.
He is currently an Invited Teacher at Law School UoA.
As an experienced Attorney, he deals with legal consulting and legal cases in Administrative Law (Environmental Law - Urban Planning Law) and Energy Law.
He provides services in Athens, Lamia and the rest of Greece, upon consultation.
He has ten years of experience (2012-2024) in Environmental Law and Urban Planning Law, having worked in Athens in these subjects for many consecutive years.
He is an expert in the field of environmental protection and mainly forest legislation, but also urban planning.
He has handled important Urban Planning and Environmental Law cases, concerning land uses, protected areas, project licensing, building permits, forestry issues, arbitrary, energy projects, RES, etc., either in advisory (to investors and companies), or in court, with an emphasis on annulment judicial protection before the Council of State and the Administrative Appeals Courts of the country.
He works as a legal advisor with businesses and individuals, investors, associations, companies and environmental unions and NGOs.
He has written and published sixteen (16) scientific legal books so far.
His first book is about Environmental Law.
He has also written a book in the field of Forestry Law and Environmental Impact Assessment and Licensing of projects and activities.
He is a lecturer-trainer at the National School of Judges (ESDI).
He is a trainer of professionals, giving lectures at seminars in his field (e.g. at the CECL Foundation).
He has participated with presentations in a number of conferences of related subjects in several institutions of the country, such as UoA, NTUA etc.
In addition, he has published a large number of studies related to his above interests in mainly legal (e.g. Environment and Law, Applications of Public Law, etc.) but also other journals and studies in conference proceedings.
He speaks English and French.
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Elli - Kyriaki Anastopoulou
Senior Partner
Attorney-at-law, PhD Law UoA, LLM Cambridge
Elli Anastopoulou is an Athens lawyer and current PhD holder of Law School of Athens, from which she graduated with honors. The topic of the doctoral thesis concerns "Liability of Supervisory and Resolution Authorities in the European Banking Union". She also obtained from the same school a master's degree specializing in Public Law and Public European Banking Law with the thesis topic "Resolution under the BRRD? the bail-in tool''
She also holds an LL.M from the University of Cambridge, specializing in commercial, financial, international dispute resolution and intellectual property law.
Professionally, she specializes in Public, Administrative and Financial Law, European Banking Law, Banking Supervision and Money Laundering Law.
She has extensive work experience abroad - among others - as a legal advisor:
- to the European Central Bank (ECB),
- to the European Banking Authority (EBA) and
- in the OECD.
She has completed an internship at the legal service of the Hellenic Parliament and also has experience at a Greek law firm.
Finally, she practices law in national and European courts.
Scientifically and academically she is active as she has written two books in the Greek language, has authored a collective volume in the English language related to her above interests, has published articles in the legal press and participates as a Young Researcher at the European Banking Institute where she is - among others - responsible for the coordination of the Young Researchers Group, the overview of European jurisprudence, the scientific contribution to working groups and the organization of events and workshops.
Finally, she has gained teaching experience in London as she worked as a tutor at Oxford Summer Courses Ltd.
She speaks English, French and German.
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Dimitrios Skaftouros
Senior Partner - PhD candidate Law School UoA
Dimitrios Skaftouros is a Lawyer, PhD Candidate in Public Law of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens from which he obtained a degree in Law (L.L.B.), specialized in Constitutional Law, Energy Law, Administrative Law, Public Policies and Political Systems. He specializes in issues related to the spectrum of Energy Law, Political Planning and Implementation of Public Policies, as well as issues of electoral nature. He is preparing his PhD thesis on Public Law, Social Rights and Energy Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He also holds a Master's Degree (L.L.M.) in Public Law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where he has given rise to studies on social rights and applied policies. Finally, he holds a Master's Degree (M.A) in Political Systems and Public Policies from the University of Crete, during which he highlighted the correlation of the legal framework with applied and applicable policies in the ever-changing environment.
He has joined the teaching staff of the Centre for European Constitutional Law. He is a Senior Partner of ENVLEX Group.
He deals with cases of Administrative Law (Energy Law, Urban Planning Law, Social Protection Law, Tax, Social Security Law, etc.) and Constitutional Law.
He maintains a law office in Attica, from which he undertakes legal representation of cases throughout Greece.
He has handled Public Law cases and has undertaken the constant representation of the interests of many sociétés anonymes in administrative matters. The main pillar of reference of the cases is urban planning provisions, land use, expropriations,arbitrary constructions, energy legislation, just transition and lawsuit claims of the represented clients.
Furthermore, he has been involved in the financial, legal and administrative rationalization of sociétés anonymes and other corporate structures, as well as their representation before the Management and in national/supranational conferences.
He has authored and published numerous legal studies. His first book, titled "Environmental and Urban Planning Dimensions of Energy Law" with Dr. Panagiotis Galanis has just been published (2024).
He has joined the teaching staff of the Center for European Constitutional Law, Themistocles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation, delivering teaching lectures on Forest Law, Forestry Misconduct, Cultural Law and Constructing Law Issues.He has participated with presentations in numerous conferences on related subjects in many Universities of the country, such as the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the University of Crete, the National Technical University of Athens, as well as the Panhellenic Association of Merchant Marine Captains.
He speaks English, French, Turkish as well as the Greek Sign Language
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Aikaterini Papatheodorou
Attorney-at-law, LLM UniPi
Real Estate - Criminal Law
Aikaterini (Katerina) Papatheodorou is a Lawyer of Athens, a graduate of the Law School of the National University of Athens and holder of a Master's Degree in "Law and Economics" from the University of Piraeus.
She maintains external Collaboration with an Associate-Lawyer of the banking company under the name "Eurobank S.A." (in the enforcement-auctions department) and the public limited company with the name "NEA ODOS CONCESSION COMPANY ANONYME" and "GEK TERNA HOLDINGS, REAL ESTATE, CONSTRUCTION COMPANY ANONYME" (in the traffic accident compensation department), as well as external Cooperation with Associate-Legal Advisor of the "Mantis Group of Companies" group of companies for trademark cases.
She has participated in a simulation of a legislative committee on the topic of Criminal Conciliation-Mediation, within the framework of the Higher Seminar of Criminal Sciences (grade 9/10), while she has also prepared related studies on the topic of "The criminal relationship as a special relationship of sovereignty" within the framework of the course of Public Law Composition (grade 9/10), "The Mechanism and Procedure for Dispute Resolution in the WTO" within the framework of the course Economic System - Economics and Law of the State's Regulatory Policy, "The Arbitrary Medical Act and Its Legal Consequences" within the framework of the course Economic and Legal Framework in the Health Sector (grade 9.5/10) and "White Collar Crimes. Towards a modern, anti-crime policy in Greece through the European perspective" in the context of the course Economic Crime and Economic Criminal Law.
She has specialized in Forensic Graphology and Forensic Psychology and Forensic Psychiatry.
She speaks English and German.
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Niki Anastopoulou
External Collaborating Engineer, Agronomist & Surveyor Engineering
Geoinformatics Engineer MSc and PhD (c) NTUA, Certified Appraiser TCG-CV (RE)
Niki Anastopoulou is an Agricultural & Surveying Engineer - Geoinformatics Engineer from the National Technical University of Athens and currently a Deputy Doctor of the School of Agricultural & Surveying Engineers - Geoinformatics Engineers, from which she graduated with honors.
As part of her PhD, she is involved in the development of a new generation of tools for cyber maps, tools such as Augmented Reality.
She also holds a Master's degree (MSc.) from the National Technical University of Athens, specializing in information extraction and emotional analysis (technical intelligence fields) from natural language texts and visualization of information on cognitive maps.
Professionally, she specializes in Real Estate Appraisal and is a Certified Appraiser TCG-CV (RE), and in Geographic Information Systems. She also undertakes the issuance of building permits and the settlement of irregularities.
Scientifically and academically she is active, writing scientific papers in international journals and participating as a speaker in international conferences on cartography.
She speaks English and French.
- Disclaimer -
The above mentioned professionals are independent and completely autonomous. The client is not obligated to collaborate with any of the above professionals, nor are they obligated to collaborate with him. Each case requires an appointment and consultation. We are not obligated to conclude or develop your possible collaboration with any of our partners/associates.