Athanassios V. Skontzos is an Associate at Ioannis Vassardanis and Partners since October 2020. Throughout his academic and professional development he has been familiarized with an in-depth understanding of comparative and contemporary issues pertinent to International Litigation, Judicial Proceedings in EU and International Fora, International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, institutional and ad hoc arbitral proceedings and alternative means of resolving disputes (ADR). Athanassios commands a solid understanding of the international perspectives of procedural law covering schemes such as Jurisdiction, Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in civil-commercial and matrimonial-parental responsibility matters, Common rules for cross-border insolvency proceedings, Service of legal documents within the EU, Cooperation between courts of Member States in the taking of evidence, International arbitral proceedings and awards, Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, Remedies against their recognition and Issues of conflicts of laws.

As a researcher and practitioner he has acquired broad knowledge of the key tendencies in domestic, International and European Private Law and in particular Contracts, Torts, Energy and Consumer Law, as well as to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and international model rules (PICC). Athanassios is well equated with specific areas of arbitration (evidence, third party funding, expedited proceedings, provisional measures), having an in-depth oversight of branded institutional arbitration rules (ICC Rules, LCIA Rules, DIS Rules, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Rules).

Specializations

Dispute Resolution (Arbitration and ADR, Litigation)
European, International & Comparative Civil Procedure
Civil Law (Contracts, Torts, Property Law, Consumer Law)
Private International Law & International Transactions

Professional Associations

Athens Bar Association
CiArb Student Member
ICC Young Arbitrators Forum (YAF)
International Council for Commercial Arbitration (YoungICCA)
Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)
UNIDROIT Alumni Association
Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG)
Young Arbitrators Sweden (ΥAS) - Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC)

Affiliations

University of West Attica, Department of Business Administration, Academic fellow
Hellenic Police Academy, Officers’ School- Continuing Education School, Supply tutor (Civil Law, Civil Procedure)

Education

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of Law, LL.B (Hons)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, LL.M (Hons) Civil Procedure
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, LL.M (Hons) Civil Law
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin), International Dispute Resolution (IDR) LL.M
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, LL.M. (Hons) Private International Law & Law of International Transactions
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, PhD cand. Civil Procedure

Publications/Contribution

Indicative publications include:
Reinstatement of rights according to art. 152 et seq. of the Greek Civil Procedural Code: comments and contemporary case law issues on the occasion of Athens Court of Appeals 599/2017 decision, EfAD 1/2017, p. 17 ff.

Procedural treatment of foreign law: legal nature, “evidence” and review of its application, EPolD 4/2017, p. 359 ff. Comments on Appellate Court of Evvoia 26/2016 decision, EfAD 4/2017, p. 356 ff.
Note on Areios Pagos 176/2016 decisison, EfAD 3/2017, p. 260
The burden and standard of proof under the Vienna Convention for the International Sales of Goods: allocating the burden of proof in international sales law, EPolD 6/2018, p. 623 ff.
The burden of proof in model international procedural law: dealing with the standard and burden of proof in international disputes, Uniform Law Review/Revue de droit uniforme, Vol. 23, Issue 3-4, 2018, p. 569 ff.
Contemporary issues of distributing the burden of proof in Consumer Protection Law – national and European perspectives (after Law 4512/2018 and recent case law), EfAD 10/2018, p. 1053 ff.
Participation in the collective work Katsiroumpas P. (ed.),Civil lawsuit in civil proceedings, Nomiki Vivliothiki Publ. (2019), Ch. 1, 2
Participation in the collective work ‘Dictionary of Civil Law’, Nomiki Vivliothiki Publ.,
forthcoming Issues concerning the distribution of the burden of proof in insolvency law of non-commercial persons (Burden of proof and field of application– objective and subjective preconditions for the application of Law 3869/2010), De Jure 20/2019, p. 33 ff.
Comment on 87/2019 decision of Single Member Court of Appeals of Patras, EfAD 3/2019, p. 339 ff.
Comment on 160/2018 decision of Single Member First Instance Court of Drama EfAD 5/2019, p. 575 ff.
Burden and Standard of proof in model international procedural law: rules on distribution and evaluation of evidence in international disputes, EfAD 7/2019, p. 738 ff. Armenopoulos 12/2018, p. 1959 ff.
Note on 334/2019 decision of Single Member Court of Appeal of Patras, EfAD 8-9/2019, p. 9ff.
Note on 84/2019 decision of Single Member First Instance Court of Athens, EfAD 10/2019, p. 1077 ff.

Comment on 327/2018 decision of Athens Court of Appeal, Nomiko Vima 2020, p. 1923 ff. Note on 21/2020 decision of Local Court of Edessa, Nomiko Vima 2020, Issue 68 April-March, p. 553 ff.
Note on 1768/2020 decision of Athens Court of First Instance, EfAD 6/2020, p. 3 ff.
Note on 32/2020 decision of Court of Appeals of Patras, EfAD 7/2019, p. 759 ff.
Comment on 579/2019 decision of Areios Pagos, EpOiD 6/2020, p. 56 ff.
Pro-enforcement bias in the interpretation and application of the New York Convention of 1958 in Greek case law, Nomiki Vivliothiki Publ., forthcoming monograph, 250+ pp. (2020)
Participation in the Collective Work Fiorakis Ioann. (ed.)
Compensation in Civil Law, Chapt.: Liability for unlawful execution (art. 940 CCP),
Precontractual liability (art. 197-198 CC)
Comment on 5/2020 decision of Areios Pagos (Plenary Session), EfAD 8-9/2020, p. 24 ff.
Note on 578/2020 decision of First Instance Court of Athens, EpOiD, Issue 2/2020, p. 112 ff.
Note on 590/2020 decision of Areios Pagos, EfADEPoeD 10/2020 p. 1083 ff.
Note on 734/2020 decision of Areios Pagos, EfADEPoeD 10/2020, p. 1059 ff.

Individual recent awards

Scholarship for Hellenes 2015-2017, Scholar of Alexander S. Onasis Public Benefit
Foundation (LL.M Civil Procedure)
State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) grant holder (PhD cand.)
UNIDROIT Research Scholarship Program 2019

Languages

Greek (native)
English (proficient)
German (working knowledge)