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Dr. Konstantinos Adamantopouloss

Dr. Konstantinos Adamantopoulos

Konstantinos is a dual qualified Greek lawyer and member of the Brussels Bar's E list since 2002. He specializes in EU trade law, EU competition law, including merger control, and State aid. He has worked extensively and has in depth expertise in the maritime, aviation, transport infrastructure, travel, energy, hi-technology security, electronic communications, media and sports sectors, as well as the steel and chemical industries. He regularly represents clients, from across Europe, the US and Asia, before the European institutions and has extensive experience of litigation, representing governments and corporate entities before the European Commission, the Court of Justice and the General Court of the European Union, as well as in dispute settlement procedures before WTO institutions. Konstantinos has authored a number of publications on European law and policy and has presented at conferences on aspects of EU competition, State aid, trade and air transport law. He regularly lectures on EU law.

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Johan Billiet

Johan Billiet

Johan is a lawyer at the Brussels Bar and a specialist in commercial law, bankruptcy and insolvency, and distribution and franchising. He is the founding partner of Billiet & Co. Johan holds a dual Master in Law and Criminology from the University of Ghent, as well as a Master in Maritime Law from the University of Antwerp. He is the founder of the Association for International Arbitration, and the author of various books, including the manual of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) on International Investment Arbitration. Johan teaches investment arbitration, dispute resolution and comparative arbitration at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the VUB. He works in Dutch, French, and English.

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Philippe Billiet

Philippe Billiet

Philippe is a lawyer at the Brussels Bar and a specialist in conflict (re)solution, arbitration, and commercial law. He obtained his LL.M. in International Economic Law at the University of Warwick. Philippe was one of the first mediators to obtain the EMTPJ (European Mediation Training for Practitioners of Justice) certification and he frequently intervenes in matters that have a diplomatic dimension. He is a vice-president of the Chambre d’arbitrage d’experts, a member of the advisory board of the Brussels Diplomatic Academy, and a registered arbitrator with numerous institutions worldwide. He lectures on conflict resolution tools and strategies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He works in Dutch, French, and English. In addition, he is conversational in German and understands Polish.

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Mona Hanna

Mona Hanna

Mona is the President and Founder of LAMAC (Lebanese Center for Mediation and Conciliation). She began her career as a professional mediator in 2008 and as a trainer in 2010. Mona specializes in conflict resolution, mediation, negotiation, and arbitration. She is a Master Practitioner and Trainer in NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) and a consultant in relational communication and non-violent communication. Mona is also specialized in peer mediation and mediation at schools. She is a Member of the Belgian Federal Mediation Commission. Mona is an international speaker and trainer. She is the author of the first mediation book in Arabic and several publications in mediation. Mona initiated the first certified mediator certificates in Arabic, a Certified mediation training for lawyers as well as mediation training for internal security forces (ISF), General Security (SG), and Lebanese Army. She worked on the judiciary law published in 2018 and drafted and submitted to the parliament in 2021 the conventional law which was published in April 2022. Mona is also a lawyer since 2004, legal consultant, arbitrator, and founder and manager of HANNA for law, Mediation and Business Consultancy since 2007. She is specialized in corporate law, real estate, labor law, commercial, civil law, construction, and FIDIC. Mona is also specialized in medical law, disputes, arbitration, and alternative dispute resolution.

Ewa Kurlanda-Billiet

Ewa Kurlanda-Billiet

Ewa Kurlanda-Billiet is a legal advisor to our firm who focuses mainly on Belgian-Polish legal matters. She obtained her LLM on international Economic Law at the University of Warwick. Her experience includes a wide range of legal matters. She works in English, Polish and Dutch. She is further also conversational in Greek.

Vladimir Lincautan

Vladimir Lincautan

Vladimir is a lawyer at the Brussels Bar and a specialist in corporate and commercial law, international trade law, and M&A. He has completed multiple masters, including in business law, corporate finance, international and European law, and international public law. He frequently intervenes in complex corporate and international trade transactions and has extensive experience in handling high-value, multi-party, multi-jurisdictional disputes in CIS and EU jurisdictions. He has worked as a legal counsel at ERG sarl in Luxembourg and has experience working for Dentons. Vladimir works in Dutch, French, English, Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian.

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