Panayotis Bernitsas
Managing Partner
Bernitsas Law Firm

Panayotis is a leading legal practitioner, with an active, broad-based commercial practice incorporating more than 35 years of experience in transactional, advisory and litigation work.

Panayotis is an expert in advising on major development and inbound investment projects across a number of sectors, with a track record of playing a key role in many of the pioneering and groundbreaking transactions to have taken place in Greece.

He is one of Greece's foremost legal advisors in privatisations and concession projects and his real estate practice is focused on large scale developments and real property asset portfolio investments.

Panayotis advises market leading public and private companies, banks, investment firms and other financial institutions and funds on benchmark and mainstream transactions in the healthcare, hospitality, media and real estate sectors and on major infrastructure, energy and transport concession projects and privatisations.

From 1983 to 2007 Panayotis was an Associate Professor of International Economic Law, the Law of International Business Transactions and European Community Law at the University of Thrace. He has been widely published in the legal journals, books and other publications in his areas of expertise.