Dr. Leonidas Kanellos
Attorney at Law, Electronic communications, competition law and policy
Dr Leonidas Kanellos is an internationally reputable telecoms and media attorney, writer, policy maker and university professor, advising for more than 30 years several European and international public organizations, private operators, standardization authorities and government bodies on EU electronic communications law, privacy, information security and regulatory compliance. He is currently managing a team of lawyers and experts in the above fields. Leonidas is also member of the legal service of the Athens Bar Association and President of the Panhellenic Network of Professional Data Protection Officers, https://www.dponetwork.gr/
From 2009 to 2013 he was President of the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Greece (2009-2013) and Chair 2013 of BEREC, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (and during 2021 and 2011 Vice Chair, competent for international relations).
During his term of office, he has actively contributed to the implementation of the EU fixed/mobile broadband network deployment policies (Digital Agenda). He has also an extensive training activity at the University of Piraeus and the University of the Aegean as well as in Data Protection Officers (DPO) and AI Experts’ Training and Certification.
Leonidas has extensively published in both the international (mainly in English and French) and Greek legal and academic press, authoring numerous monographs, articles, and contribution to books and studies related to the Information Society, such as Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law (collective book, 2025), The GDPR Handbook (2023), Smart contracts (2022), Artificial Intelligence in Legal practice (2021), Covid-19, Practical issues of legal protection (collective book 2021), Greece-EU 1981-2021 (collective book 2021).
He speaks fluently English, French and German and has passive knowledge of Spanish and Italian.
Education: University of Montpellier, France, PhD in Law (Thesis on convergence between informatics, media and telecommunications), 1990 University of Montpellier, France, DEA in “Information Technology Law and Legal Information Technology”, 1985 Athens University, Faculty of Law, 1984
Practice Areas
Business and Regulatory Compliance
Investment Projects, market entry, competition
Commercial, administrative, civil law
Cybercrime, banking and electronic fraud
European and International consultancy projects
Legal audits, Training & Seminars
Our Team
Andreas Polykarpou
Special advisor of the law firm & regulatory expertise in ICT
Vassilis Georgakis
Attorney at Law, Labor, administrative & electronic communications law
Nick Alexopoulos
Attorney at Law, Commercial law
George Leftheriotis
Senior Consultant in Information Security and Data Privacy Legislation Compliance
Stelios Ioannou
Master’s in Journalism & New Technologies, PhD in Knowledge Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuromarketing
Orestis Kanellos
Attorney at Law, Commercial administrative & electronic communications law