BIOS

Professor Dr. Rokas, Ioannis K. - Managing Partner

Born in Athens, Greece; admitted 1971, Athens; authorized to appear before the Athens and Piraeus Courts of Appeal and Supreme Court of Greece. Professor of Commercial and Business Law, Athens University of Economics and Business Sciences. Judge, Court of Appeal for Trademarks, 1987-1990.

EDUCATION:

University of Athens Law School (Diploma, 1968); University of Berlin (Dr. Jur., 1975).

AUTHOR:

  • “Summenversicherung und Schadensersatz” (in German), Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1975;
  • “Cases on Private Insurance Law” (in Greek), Sakkoulas, 1979;
  • “Carriage of Goods by Road and Civil Liability" (in Greek), Sakkoulas, 1984;
  • “Greece: Practical Commercial Law" (in English), Longman, London, 1992;
  • “Greece: Insurance Law” (in English), entry for Kluwer Encyclopaedia of Insurance Law, Deventer, Boston, 1993
  • “Insurance Law” (in Greek), 11th ed., 2006;
  • “Introduction to Business Law” (in Greek), 3rd ed., Benos, 2002;
  • “Commercial Law – General Part” (in Greek), 3rd ed., Sakkoulas, 2003;
  • “Towards a Modern Insurance Law” (in English), Sakkoulas, 2007;
  • Has also published numerous articles on Industrial Property Law.

EDITOR:

Commercial Law Review (quarterly law review published in Athens since 1950). Correspondent for the German review "Versicherungsrecht" and the Belgian review "European Transport Law".

MEMBERSHIPS:

  • AIDA (International Association for Insurance Law): Member of the Presidential Council;
  • AIDA, President of the Greek Section;
  • Comite Maritime Internationale: former General Secretary of the Greek Section;
  • Mediterranean Maritime Arbitration Association: former Chairman;
  • President of the Private Insurance Committee of the Greek Ministry of Trade;
  • Chairman of Legislation and Drafting Committees for the Greek Commercial Code, Insurance Law, Patent Law;
  • Vice-chairman of the Hellenic Committee for Electronic Commerce, etc.

LANGUAGES:

Greek, German, English, French.

PRACTICE AREAS:

Insurance Law, General Commercial Law, Banking Law, Admiralty and Maritime Law, Environmental Law, Central and Eastern European Law.