Practice Areas
Ioannis has extensive experience representing clients in high-value and complex matters, whether pursuant to institutional rules or in ad hoc proceedings. He specialises in commercial litigation and international arbitration, including banking disputes, particularly those involving financial products, investment banking and derivatives. He also focusses on commercial and business disputes with an emphasis on joint venture and shareholder disputes, shareholder protection, business break-ups, fraud.
His key industry sectors are financial services, energy/oil and gas, shipping/international trade, telecoms, IT and infrastructure projects. Ioannis’ main geographies are Greece, the Balkans, Russia, the Middle East, Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa. He also has considerable experience of regulatory and internal investigations.
Ioannis has extensive expertise representing clients in arbitrations under the ICC and LCIA rules, as well as others including SCC and UNCITRAL, and his cases often involve an international element, usually with competing multiple jurisdictions and laws. His clients include banks or their clients, insurers, intermediaries, venture capitalists and equity investors, and large corporates in England and internationally. Ioannis also advises in connection with investor state disputes.
Career
Associate, Holman Fenwick Willan, 1990; Partner, DLA Piper, 1998; Partner, Bryan Cave, 2015; Partner, Signature Litigation, 2016.
