Pavlos  Masouros 
Managing Partner
Masouros & Partners 

Pavlos is admitted to practice in Athens and is the Managing Partner of Masouros & Partners, a law firm focusing on sophisticated capital and specializing in corporate law and M&A. The firm is consistently ranked across all major legal directories (Chambers, Legal 500, IFLR1000) as one of the top law firms for Corporate Law/M&A in Greece, while Pavlos is consistently named a ‘Leading Individual’ in such directories. Pavlos has been named an ‘elite corporate lawyer’ and a ‘titanic figure in corporate law’ (The Legal500 EMEA 2022).
Pavlos has advised foreign and domestic corporate clients, as well as the Hellenic and foreign governments and state-owned organizations, on dozens of business combinations (mergers, share purchase agreements, tender offers, privatizations, shareholders’ agreements, joint venture agreements, etc.), including some of the largest deals in value with a Greek element and is continuously engaged in cross-border corporate and M&A dispute resolution cases before international arbitral tribunals, Greek and foreign state Courts. Apart from his legal directories’ accolades, Pavlos has received several references in the press for his corporate law expertise (The Washington Post, American Lawyer, Het Financieele Dagblad, etc.).
Outside of his professional activities Pavlos is Assistant Professor of Corporate Law at Leiden Law School in the Netherlands and a Visiting Professor of Corporate Law at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy.
He is the author of many books and articles on corporate law, corporate litigation, corporate governance and law and economics and the author of a widely-referenced practitioner’s handbook on Corporate Litigation in Greece.
Pavlos holds an LL.B. from the Athens Law School (1st in class), an LL.M. in Corporate Law & Governance from the Harvard Law School (Fulbright Scholar; Victor Brudney Prize for Corporate Governance) and a Ph.D. in Corporate Law & Economics from Leiden University.