Vassilis Akritidis

Vassilis is a partner in our Brussels office and heads our trade team. His particular expertise covers trade defence measures and WTO practice, EU competition law including state aids and litigation before the European courts in Luxembourg and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.Vassilis has acquired great experience over the last twelve years in the field of anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguards investigations and in advising governments and private parties on WTO law. The clients he represents extend from private parties to professional associations and sovereign governments and are located in India, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Croatia, Russia, Greece, Dubai, Ukraine and the US. He is thus familiarised with the trade defence practices in several jurisdictions. Vassilis also works in the field of competition in cartel investigations, state aid matters as well as in issues related to the EC internal market. He is an experienced litigator and a regular writer and speaker in related topics.