Christos Golfinopoulos, Attorney-at-Law, admitted to Patra’s Bar Association 1999, Court of Appeals.

Christos specialises in the areas of Competition law, IP and licensing and Public Procurement. He also practices extensively commercial/company law, contracts and tax law.

Education: University of Athens, Faculty of Law (LL.B. 1997); University of Essex, UK (LL.M. in EC Law, 2001); University of Athens, Faculty of Law, PHD Candidate on “Legal protection of software programs”.

Prior work experience: Associate, Herbert Smith Law Firm, EU and Competition law group, Brussels, Belgium (September 2001 – July 2004); In-service traineeship (stage), European Commission, Directorate General for Competition, State Aids Unit (March 2001 – July 2001).

Selected publications:
(a)  Digital Rights Management for E-Commerce Systems, Contributing author, Chapter XIV DRM: A European Law Perspective, Information Science Reference, September 2008.
(b)  Restructuring aid and the private creditor principle – Case T-68/03 Olympiaki Aeroporia v Commission, (2007) Public procurement and State Aid Law Review, 1-3/2007 p.64, CIEEL (in Greek).
(c)  The Hellenic Competition Commission’s Leniency Programme and its weaknesses, Business and Company Law, 10/2006 (Vol.12), 994 (in Greek).
(d)  State aid in the air transport sector: useful guidance following the Commission’s decision on Ryanair, (2005) Public procurement and State Aid Law Review, 1/2005 p.51, CIEEL (in Greek).
(e)  Concept of selectivity criterion in State aid definition following the Adria-Wien judgment – measures justified by the ‘nature or general scheme of a system’, (2003) European Competition Law Review, vol.24, October issue, p.543, Sweet & Maxwel.
(f)  “Access to content” – Challenges for developing third generation (3G) technology, [2003] Entertainment Law Review, issue 3, p.56, Sweet & Maxwell.