Gavala Athanasia

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Ms. Athanasia Gavala is the Director-General of the Hellenic Competition Commission. Prior to her appointment as Director-General of the Hellenic Competition Commission, she worked in Greece and in multinational law firms in Brussels, where she was promoted to Counsel in January 2021. During her ten-year service in Brussels, she has led working groups that have handled significant mergers and acquisitions under Articles 101/102 TFEU before the European Commission and other competition authorities. He has also providedadvice on a variety of EU competition law issues, including horizontal cooperation agreements, consortia, abuse of a dominant position, vertical distribution agreements, exchange of information between competitors, legal assessment and documentation of concentrations, planning and implementation of remedies). Her professional experience spans a wide range of economic sectors. Ms. Gavala graduated from the Law School of the Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon, from which she obtained a master's degree in Commercial Law. Her Master’s thesis on "Economic Efficiency in EU Merger Control, A Comparative Overview of US and Canadian Law" was published by Nomiki Vivliothiki in 2010. She has also received a second master’s degree (LL.M. ) in Corporation Law from New York University Law School, where she was admitted on scholarship. During her master's studies, she worked as legal trainee at the Attorney General's Office in New York.