Athanasios advises on all areas of competition law, including cartels and similar collusive practices, abuse of dominance, merger control and the law governing State Aid. He has represented clients in antitrust cases before the Hellenic Competition Commission and the Greek Administrative Courts as well as in merger control procedures before national authorities and the European Commission.
Athanasios also advises on European law, in particular the business regulation of the internal market and undertakes the review and drafting of commercial agreements with a particular emphasis on vertical relationships.
Acquisition in the motor vehicle sector
Partner Dimitris Loukas and associates Athanasios Taliadouros and Alexandros Ntallas advised a leading Greek motor vehicle importer and distributor, as well as a leading Israeli motor vehicle importer and distributor, in relation to the HCC’s merger control approval process over their joint acquisition of the Greek subsidiary of a major global automaker and mobility provider in the motor vehicle sector (import, wholesale and retail distribution of new passenger and light commercial vehicles, spare parts, vehicle leasing/rent-a-car and provision of car repair and maintenance services).
HCC ex officio investigation in the harbor tug services sector
Dimitris Loukas and associate Athanasios Taliadouros advised a leading harbor tugs services provider in relation to the settlement of the HCC’s ex officio cartel investigation in the market for the provision of harbor tugs services in the ports of Attica and Thessaloniki.
HCC’s ex officio investigation in the field and garden machinery sector
Partner Dimitris Loukas and associates Athanasios Taliadouros and Alexandros Ntallas are advising a leading Greek supplier of machinery for field, forest and garden use in relation to the in relation to the settlement of the HCC’s ex officio investigation for suspected vertical restraints in the market for the supply of machine-operated tools for garden use in Greece.
Acquisition in the retail supermarket sector
Partner Dimitris Loukas and associates Athanasios Taliadouros and Alexandros Ntallas advised a major retail supermarket chain in relation to the HCC’s merger control approval process concerning its acquisition of another regional supermarket chain in Greece.
Acquisition in the payment services market
Partner Dimitris Loukas and associate Athanasios Taliadouros advised a multinational payment & transactional services company in relation to the HCC’s merger control approval process over its acquisition of the merchant acquiring business unit of a Greek systemic bank.
Intervention in merger proceedings
Partner Dimitris Loukas and associates Athanasios Taliadouros and Alexandros Ntallas advised a major health services provider in Greece in relation to its third-party intervention before the EU Commission in merger control proceedings involving a concentration in the markets for the provision of private health services and related insurance services.
HCC ex officio investigation in the market for pasta production
Partner Dimitris Loukas and associates Athanasios Taliadouros and Konstantina Markomichali are advising a major pasta producer in relation to the HCC’s ongoing ex officio investigation for possible infringements in the market for the production and supply of pasta in Greece.
HCC ex officio investigation in the carbonated beverages sector
Partner Dimitris Loukas and associates Athanasios Taliadouros and Kostas Manikas advised a global carbonated soft drinks producer in relation to the HCC’s ex officio investigation for suspected abuse of dominance breaches in the market for the supply of beverages for on-premise consumption in Greece.
Creation of a full-function JV in the energy sector
Partner Dimitris Loukas and associates Athanasios Taliadouros and Alexandros Ntallas advised a global wind & solar developer & utility fund manager, a Greek real estate & energy developer and a Greek importer & wholesale distributor of vehicles in relation to the EU Commission’s merger control approval process over their creation of a full-function JV in the renewables energy sector in Greece.
Acquisition in the insurance market
Partner Dimitris Loukas and associate Athanasios Taliadouros advised a global financial holding company in relation to the EU Commission’s merger control approval process over its acquisition of a major insurance provider in Greece.
Constructions’ Cartel – €22 million fine imposed by the HCC overturned by seminal decision of Appellate Court
Xenophon Paparrigopoulos and team (including, notably, Athanasios Taliadouros) successfully defended a Spanish major construction company against a €22 million fine imposed by the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) in the context of the constructions’ cartel investigated by the HCC. In a seminal judgment, the Athens Administrative Court of Appeals quashed the HCC’s decision on grounds pertaining, amongst others, to the lack of parental liability and the lack of demonstration of the single and repeated nature of the alleged infringement. It is one of the largest fines ever imposed by the HCC and overturned by the Appellate Court.
Admissions
Athens, 2015
Languages
Greek
English
German
Education
University of Oxford MJur (Dist, Alexandros Onassis Foundation Scholarship) in European, Competition and Human Rights Law, 2014
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens LLB, 2012
Our EU, Competition & Antitrust Partner, Dimitris Loukas and Senior Associate, Athanasios Taliadouros, co-authored the Greek chapter (pg. 72) of The Cartels and Leniency…
Our EU, Competition & Antitrust Partner, Dimitris Loukas and Senior Associate, Athanasios Taliadouros, co-authored the Greek chapter (pg. 72) of The Cartels and Leniency Review” publication (11th edition), which was recently published by The Law Business Research Ltd.
To read their exclusive chapter, please follow the link: https://thelawreviews.co.uk/title/the-cartels-and-leniency-review/greece
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