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Panayotis Bernitsas

Panayotis Bernitsas’ active, broad-based commercial practice incorporates more than 35 years of experience in transactional, advisory and litigation work.

Mr. Bernitsas 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 leading legal advisors on privatization and concession projects and his real estate practice is focused on large scale developments and real property asset portfolio investments.

Mr. Bernitsas is currently advising world leading companies and financial institutions in their investments and acquisitions in the healthcare and hospitality sectors and in concession projects and privatisations in infrastructure, energy and transport.

From 1983 to 2007 Mr. Bernitsas 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.

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