Lawyers

Alkiviades (Alkis) Psarras has a vast experience and expertise in commercial contracts with a focus on agency, distribution and franchise networks, and in competition, telecommunications, electronic communications, communications privacy and media, in intellectual and industrial property law, information technology law with an emphasis on electronic payments, on in the areas of exports, mergers, corporate law, and on corporate restructuring and financing.  He is providing on-going advice to a wide range of businesses, including automobile industries, software, IT, beverages and food, and home appliances industries, on the full range of issues arising in the course of their operation. Alkis has served as a member of the Board of Directors of significant Greek companies, currently being a member of the Board of Directors of the Greek energy company HELLENiQ ENERGY SA and its subsidiary HELLENIC PETROLEUM R.S.S.O.P.P.  S.A.

He has held the position of Head of the Legal Department and was a member of the board of Directors of the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (ΕΕΤΤ, www.eett.gr), a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Copyright Organization (OPI, www.obi.gr), and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Industrial Property Organization (obi, www.obi.gr).

He has participated in various legislative committees working on the drafting of legislation for societes anonymes, public procurement, electronic public procurements, consumer protection, intellectual property, electronic communications and competition. As of 2003 he teaches electronic communications law in the Interdepartmental Post-Graduate Program of the Departments of Computers and Economics of the Athens University, «Telecommunications Economics and Management».

He has various publications on issues of commercial law in academic journals and in foreign newsletters on competition law and corporate law. 

• Regulatory Authorities and the Competition Committee, 2020, T.H.P.AL 2020, p. 685
• Trade Secrets, Greek Justice, 2020, p. 1344
• Copyright in Theater, DEE 2022, p. 1004
• The Moral Rights in Theatrical Works, DEE 2022, p. 1360
• Note to Court of First Instance 2022, Copyright Conflict of Laws, Originality, DEE 2022, p. 1244
• The concept of commercial agency in accordance with the jurisprudence of the CJEE and the limits of applying it by analogy, DEE 2023, p. 2013scq.
• Case Comment to Three Members Court of First Instance of Thessaloniki 15010/2022 (Protection of indicative signs), DEE 2024, p. 158scq.

Education

University of Athens, Law School (LL.B.)
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK (LL.M on European Competition Law, Intellectual Property, International Business Transactions)
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK (Ph.D «Trade Mark Licensing-A Comparative Approach», P.  Sakkoulas publications, Athens, 1999)