Sotiris Foteas
Favourite Book: Odyssey - Homer
Favourite Music: Jean Michel Jarre, Greek music
Hobbies: European basketball, chess, political history
Favourite Book: Odyssey - Homer
Favourite Music: Jean Michel Jarre, Greek music
Hobbies: European basketball, chess, political history
Sotiris is a partner of AKL and his expertise focuses on dispute resolution, restructuring, procurement & projects and European law.
Sotiris has considerable court room experience and represents clients on an extensive range of civil and commercial matters and disputes, including enforcement, insolvency and pre-insolvency proceedings, real estate and public procurement litigation.
He is also involved in some of the most high-profile property developments and acquisitions in recent years in Greece and numerous sale and purchase transactions of cross-border and domestic real estate portfolios.
Dispute Resolution
Sotiris is ranked as a Band 4 lawyer in Chambers and Partners 2026. As noted in the guide, “He is an exceptional lawyer with sound legal grounding, an uncanny ability to think of the perfect solution and execute it admirably, and a rare capacity to share wise insights”.
Restructuring and Insolvency
According to the 2026 guide, Sotiris has been ranked as a Leading Partner and as clients describe him "Sotiris shows outstanding responsiveness and a strong capacity to understand the business risk behind the pending issues. He is a lawyer that can truly be trusted. I would recommend him for complex litigation in civil and commercial matters".
Dispute Resolution
Sotiris is featured in the Dispute Resolution category and according to a client "I have only worked with Sotiris Foteas and would not want to work with anyone else! I find him incredibly knowledgeable, intelligent, creative, helpful (often going above and beyond), amicable and resourceful. He seems to have an inexhaustible capacity to come up with the perfect form of words to counter any legal challenge effectively and decisively".
Athens Law Bar Association
PhD, Civil Law, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (2022, h.h.)
M2Recherche (DEA), European Union Law, Robert Schuman University of Strasbourg (III), 2008
LL.M, Civil Law, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2007, summa cum laude
LL.B, Greek Law, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2006, summa cum laude
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