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.