Georgios Zouridakis is a lawyer at the Supreme Court and holds a doctorate in law. During his many years of practice as a lawyer, he has handled numerous cases in and out of court with particular success. He is a legal advisor to companies and institutions.

He has taught (as a lecturer) corporate law, business law, commercial law and European Union law at universities and colleges in Greece and abroad. He also regularly participates in research projects and has a rich academic writing work, publishing in leading journals and publishing houses around the world, in Greek and English, while he co-edits the legal guide for companies Doing Business in Europe (since 2017) by Sweet & Maxwell.

He speaks English, German, Greek and Spanish.

Education:

• Law degree
• Democritus University of Thrace, School of Law, Department of Law, Komotini (Greece)
• Masters (LL M ) European Business Law, University of Essex, Colchester (UK)
• PhD in Comparative Corporate Law, University of Essex, Colchester (UK)

Publications:

• Georgios Zouridakis and Thomas Papadopoulos “Private Enforcement and EU Market Abuse Regulation: A Discussion on Direct (Class) Actions and Derivative Actions” in Georgios Psaroudakis (ed.) Risk Sharing in the Euro Area – Legal Aspects (Springer, 2023)
• Georgios Zouridakis and Thomas Papadopoulos ‘A Comparative Analysis of Derivative Action in Cypriot Company Law: Comparison With English Company Law and the Prospect of Statutory Reform’ (2022) 29(1) Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 62
• Georgios Zouridakis, “Parallel Lives: The ‘Company’s Action’ under Greek and German Law on Public Limited Companies” (2021) 1 Athenian Academic Periodical 61
• Georgios Zouridakis, Shareholder Protection Reconsidered: Derivative Action in the UK, Germany and Greece (Routledge, 2020)
• Georgios Zouridakis “Shareholders’ derivative suits against corporate directors, following cross-border mergers: a functioning remedy within the EU?” In Thomas Papadopoulos (ed.) Cross-border Mergers Directive: EU perspectives and national experiences (Springer, 2019)
• Georgios Zouridakis ‘Conference Report: “Cross-border Mergers Directive: EU perspectives and national experiences”’ (2018) 15(03) European Company Law Journal
• Contributor (together with Marios Koutsias) to Doing Business in Europe (since December 2017) looseleaf series publications by Sweet & Maxwell.
• Georgios Zouridakis “Contractual Freedom and the Corporate Constitution; Α Study on Where Greek Law Stands in a Comparative Context and the Way Forward” in David Frenkel (ed.) Selected Issues in Public and Private Law, (ATINER Publications 2015)
• Chrispas Nyombi, Tom Mortimer, Rhidian Lewis & Georgios Zouridakis ‘Shareholder Primacy and Stakeholders’ Interests in the Aftermath of a Takeover: A Review of Empirical Evidence’ (2015) 2 IBLJ 161
• Georgios Zouridakis ‘Introducing derivative actions to the Greek law on public limited companies: issues of legal standing and lessons from the German and UK experience’ (2015) 26 ICCLR 271
• Γεώργιος Ζουριδάκης ‘Αδικοπρακτική ευθύνη μητρικώ ν εταιριών σκέψεις με αφορμή την πρόσφατη αγγλική νομολογία και δικαιοσυγκριτική επισκόπηση’ [2015] 10 ΔΕ