Lefkothea Nteka

Practice Areas

Antitrust & Competition

M&A

Career

Lefkothea is the head of our Antitrust and Competition practice and a pre-eminent expert in competition law – both domestic and EU.

She covers the full range of competition law including state aid and sector specific regulation. Lefkothea advises clients across a wide range of deals and commercial matters including privatisations, cross-border and domestic M&A and joint ventures, cartels and abuse of dominance, distribution networks, vertical agreements and restrictive practices, investigations and compliance, procedures before administrative authorities and litigation before courts. Her state aid work includes among others advising on issues regarding ports, energy, financial services, application of state aid block exemptions, and state guarantees.

Before joining the firm, she served at the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) for 15 years, including five years as a Board member (Commissioner Rapporteur). While there, she worked on many large and high-profile cases across a range of sectors. She also contributed to the design of the regulator’s policy framework and operations and promoted its place in the network of European competition authorities.

Lefkothea continues to consult on regulatory issues domestic business and industry associations, as well as in the context of competition capacity-building programmes in cooperation with international organisations.

With her long experience in this area, Lefkothea can provide extensive and in-depth expertise both on the procedural aspects and substantive application of Greek and EU competition law, as well as on the workings and policy direction of the respective regulators. This combination of practical and policy expertise gives Lambadarios a genuinely differentiated client offer in the area of antitrust and competition law.

Publications

Lefkothea is a guest lecturer in EU Competition Law and Economics at the Université Aix – Marseille. She is also a guest lecturer in EU Competition Law at the European Law & Governance School of the European Public Law Organisation (EPLO).

Lefkothea has published and lectured extensively on the subject of competition law.

Professional Memberships

Volos Bar Association

Industry Sector Expertise

Lefkothea has deep experience of competition law, both in Greece and across the EU. She served for 15 years with the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) and spent five years on its Board. Lefkothea was a member of the EU Council’s negotiation team for the adoption of the Directive on antitrust damages actions and of the legislative committee for the transposition of the Directive on antitrust damages actions in Greece. She was also a member of the legislative committee for the transposition in the Greek legal order of the Directive on the effective enforcement of competition rules by national Competition Authorities (ECN +), and a regular delegate-representative at the OECD and the European Competition Network.

Since leaving the HCC she has worked in private practice, focusing on EU and competition law across a range of sectors. Her practice focuses on supporting clients – both domestic and international – in identifying and addressing issues with Greek and EU competition law, regulatory compliance and structuring transactions and commercial agreements to satisfy antitrust and competition laws.

Lefkothea advises clients across a wide range of deals and commercial matters including privatisations, cross-border and domestic M&A and joint ventures, cartels and abuse of dominance, distribution networks, vertical agreements and restrictive practices, investigations and compliance, state aid, procedures before administrative authorities and litigation before courts.

She works closely with practice area and sector teams across the firm, particularly Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate, M&A, Energy, Utilities, TMT & Intellectual Property and Litigation. Lefkothea has advised on matters across a wide range of sectors including energy, construction, banking, commodities, oil & gas, consumer and retail, motor vehicles, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, ports and infrastructure, TMT, and gaming.