Bagias, Andreas

Dr. Andreas Bagias is a graduate of the Law Faculty of the Universities of Athens and Cambridge. From Cambridge he has been awarded his LL.M and Ph.D degrees. He has held scholarships from the British Council and the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. Dr. Bagias is a member of the Piraeus Bar Association and has been qualified as an English Solicitor after successfully taking the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test. In the past he worked with Greek and international law firms both in Greece and abroad. He specializes in shipping, corporate and commercial law, international commercial agreements and project finance. He has also dealt with several insurance and international transport cases, and he has been involved in international litigation and arbitration. In 2003, he acted as an international legal expert on behalf of the EU in relation to the re-organization and supervision of the Russian insurance market. Over the past few years, Dr Bagias has focused on shipping and project finance, M&A, and international commercial agreements. His recent publications include the Greece chapter (with Tom Kyriakopoulos) on Project Finance in the “Getting the Deal Through” series published by the International Bar Association and the Global Competition Review; the chapter (with Tom Kyriakopoulos) “Greece: The Current State of the Law” in the Euromoney Project Finance Yearbook 2007/2008; and the Greece chapter (with Ioanna Lazaridou-Elmaloglou) on Mergers and Acquisitions in the Practical Law Company Handbook: M&A 2007/2008. He is fluent in English and has a working knowledge of French.

E-mail: ab@kelemenis.com

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