Ioannis Sarakinos
Managing Partner
Ioannis Sarakinos
Ioannis is our managing partner.
Born and raised in Athens, he attended the 1st General High School (Lyceum) of Halandri. He earned two Bachelor of Law degrees (LL.B.), one from the University of Greenwich in London, UK and the other from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He then obtained a Masters degree (LL.M.) in Banking Law & Financial Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He approached his studies by examining each topic as an avid researcher, honing the excellent research skills he possesses today.
After completing his studies in law, Ioannis undertook the 18th month training contract at a prominent Greek law firm in Athens – Greece, where he gained a first glimpse of financial services and business law in practice.
In April 2012, immediately after completing the 18th month training contract, he joined the Athens Bar Association, and he began his tenure, as an Attorney-at-Law, at a top-tier international Greek law firm, specialising in complex capital markets (i.e. listing of companies to stock exchanges, setting off stock exchange transactions), banking law and data protection issues. That same year, he was appointed as a BoD member of a public body of a Municipality in Athens. This role marked his first venture into practicing public/administrative law.
His diverse legal expertise, combined with his research-driven approach to every legal area he encountered, has equipped Ioannis with the ability to advise a broad clientele base, ranging from private individuals and commercial companies to public entities. Leveraging this capability, he founded Sarakinos Law in 2015, offering innovative, client-centric, and foresighted legal solutions.
Since 2017, Ioannis is a keynote speaker/instructor/trainer, having already delivered over 300 hours of practical and informative open training seminars to private and public sector employees, providing, at the same time, holistic legal and advisory services on public procurement and compliance of these bodies, especially in the areas of lawful receipt and processing of different types of reports (e.g. whistleblowing, violence and harassment – bullying and mobbing), processing of personal data under GDPR and Law 4624/2019, prevention and suppression of money laundering and terrorist financing (AML/CFT), managing intellectual property rights and the transfer of technology, as well as on issues relating to internal audit of public bodies. Over the last years, he has also been a World Bank expert, advising on financial services and the compliance of companies as well as public bodies and in special sectors (such as defence, water & internet).
Outside his legal profession, Ioannis has varied interests. From 1999 to 2009, he passionately pursued tennis, achieving notable rankings in various open tournaments and a place within the top 100 of the Greek National Tennis league (2009). Although at a less competitive level nowadays, he still enjoys tennis very much. He is also a collector of crystals’, he enjoys creating lists (a self-invented game shared with friends and clients) and he is currently penning a history book aimed at providing a concise, in chronological order, account of major events in world history.
