Naya Theodoropoulou is a member of the Piraeus Bar Association since 1998 and partner of the firm “G.N. THEODOROPOULOS LAW FIRM” since its foundation on 2007. She has wide experience in the fields of Civil, Commercial, Corporate, Shipping, Administrative, Banking and Financing law, having long-term co-operations with Banks, maritime companies,
shipowners and commercial corporations.

She is graduate from the Law School of Democritus University of Thrace, Northern Greece and she has completed her practical training in the Legal Council of the Greek State (at the Office of the Legal Counselor to the Minister of Health, Welfare and Social Security).

She has started her practice as lawyer, specializing in commercial, banking and shipping law, being for a number of years (October 1998 to January 2003) in-house Legal Advisor to the Greek Branch of the Dutch Bank “ABN AMRO BANK N.V.” in Kallithea, Athens, Greece, as well as to its Greek subsidiary “ABN AMRO LEASING HELLAS S.A.” and to the other Greek subsidiaries thereof, to which she has provided her services and advice on the fields of banking law, examination of the corporate customers’ documentation, financing and loan agreements of any nature, agreements on various banking products issued by the Bank (in retail banking, corporate/shipping banking, asset management and private banking), leasing agreements of equipment, immobile property and aircrafts, and in general in credit risk matters of the Bank and its subsidiaries in Greece.

At the same time, she has handled successfully many other cases of Civil and Commercial law, in particular in the fields of law of contracts of any type (timesharing agreements, franchising agreements, agency agreements, distribution agreements etc.), incorporation and operation of companies, corporate mergers and transformations, corporate due diligence, investments, sale and purchase of immobile property and vessels, port registration of vessels, industrial property and trademarks, law of competition and consumer protection.

From January 2003 until November 2013, she served as in house Legal Counsel to the maritime company “HELLENIC SEAWAYS MARITIME S.A.” (ex “HELLAS FLYING DOLPHINS MARITIME S.A.”), the largest (as to the number of vessels) coastal company in Greece at that time, operating to the Greek waters and to the wider area of the Mediterranean Sea.

Under such capacity, for more than 10 years, she has handled a wide range and a remarkable variety of cases in respect of the operation of the above company, its Group of companies and their vessels in Greece and abroad, and indicatively sale and purchase of vessels, building of new vessels (Ro-Pax HIGHSPEED 5, Ro-Pax NISSOS MYKONOS, Ro-Pax NISSOS CHIOS), conversion and modification of vessels (Ro-Pax ARIADNE, Ro-Ro OCEAN TRAILER), charter of vessels of any type and charter of vessels with sale option (Ro-Pax HIGHSPEED 2, Ro-Pax HIGHSPEED 3), banking loans and refinance of existing loans, syndicated loans and issuance of bond loans, granting of ship mortgages and other securities, provision of legal advice to the Board of Directors and the Management of the
company on various issues of their competency, handling and surveillance of various corporate issues of the company and its group as well as their compliance to the formalities imposed by Law (indicatively drafting of shareholders/board minutes, compliance to the publication procedures etc.), drafting of major commercial agreements with third parties regarding the commercial operation of the vessels (indicatively granting of the management of the bars and restaurants of the vessels to EVEREST GROUP, commercial co-operations with the telecommunication companies VODAFONE and COSMOTE), penalties/examinations of the Greek Competition Authority to the company and the coastal market in general,
drafting of agency agreements and other agreements as far as to the operation of the vessels (indicatively towage agreements, bunkering agreements etc.), handling and settlement of judicial and extra-judicial issues arising from the day-to-day business of the vessels (indicatively passenger claims, sea pollution, port fees, electronic issuance of tickets, administrative penalties, labour disputes etc.).

From May 2019 until today, she serves as a legal counsel of a major group of companies in Greece, with a wide variety of commercial activities.
She has participated in numerous legal conferences for the purpose of her constant information on the current scientific events (indicatively International Conferences of Maritime Law organized by the P.B.A., conferences organized by the Association of the Greek Commercialists, conferences organized by the Association of Judicial Studies etc.)

Foreign Languages: English, French, German, Greek (native)
Work languages: Greek, English, French