Areas of Specialization: Transportation Law, Competition and State Aid Law, Tort Law, International Commercial Arbitration, Investment Arbitration, International Commercial Contracts, Public Procurement, Construction Law, Foreign Investments, Energy Law, Joint Ventures, Corporate Law, Public-Private Partnerships, Private International Law, Mergers & Acquisitions.
Arbitration Experience: Arbitrator in numerous international arbitrations, including both institutional cases (under the auspices of LCIA and ICC) and ad hoc arbitrations (UNCITRAL), as well as many domestic arbitrations, both institutional and ad hoc. Lawyer in numerous ad hoc arbitrations covering a wide range of matters. Member of technical dispute resolution committees in several concession-related cases. He has particular expertise in arbitrations involving international commercial relations and transactions, including cases concerning construction projects, sales of goods, airports, ports, and concession agreements.
Working Languages: Greek, English
Education: Graduated with top honors (first in class) from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). Postgraduate studies in the Magister Juris/LLM program at the University of Oxford (grade: Distinction, first in class – Clifford Chance Prize). MPhil in Law, University of Oxford (grade: Distinction). Doctor of Philosophy in Law (DPhil), University of Oxford. For his doctoral research at Oxford, he was awarded the Clarendon Scholarship, the Onassis Scholarship, and a scholarship from the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation. Postdoctoral Fellow, Law School, NKUA.
Professional Profile: Mr. Dimitris Kyriazis is an Assistant Professor of EU Law at the Law School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a practicing Attorney-at-Law before the Supreme Court of Greece (Areios Pagos) with extensive experience in advisory and litigation work, specializing in arbitration, banking law, competition and state aid law, and EU law in general. Since 2022, he is Founding Partner of the law firm Kyriazis Law Firm, based in Kolonaki, Athens. He has served, among other roles, as Special Expert for the Hellenic Competition Commission and as an associate with Freshfields Brussels and Bernitsas Law Firm, Athens.
Mr. Kyriazis has held postdoctoral research positions at the Law School of NKUA and earned his DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford. For his doctoral research, he received the Clarendon Scholarship, the Onassis Scholarship, and a scholarship from the UK Chartered Institute of Taxation. He holds an MPhil in Law from Oxford (Distinction, Light Senior Scholar) and an MJur from Oxford (Distinction, Onassis Scholar, first in class, Clifford Chance Prize). He graduated top of his class from the Law School of NKUA with distinction.
He is a member of the Associated Researchers Group of the European Banking Institute and a Research Fellow in Law at Northeastern University London, where he served as Law School Chair from 2017 to 2020. Previously, he was a Stipendiary Lecturer in Constitutional and EU Law at the University of Oxford and a Teaching Fellow in EU Competition Law at University College London.
He has published two monographs (State Aid Law – Oxford University Press; Sustainable Finance Law – Nomiki Bibliothiki), along with numerous studies in national and international journals on arbitration, EU law, commercial law, and public law.
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