Ilias V. Spyropoulos
Biography
Ilias V. Spyropoulos is a Senior Associate at Ovvadias S. Namias Law Firm and has been involved in numerous cases, predominantly related to fraud, breach of trust, bribery, money laundering, extradition, medical negligence and mutual legal assistance. He is also active in the field of criminal internal investigations.
Ilias graduated from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, from which he also obtained his LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. He then received his PhD in Criminal Law from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in the field of medical negligence. He lectures as a Special Scientific Associate in Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the Democritus University of Thrace.
He has been a member of the Athens Bar Association and the Munich Bar Association since 2011. He is also a member of the Hellenic Criminal Bar Association and of the Hellenic Association of Penal Law.
Ilias has published several articles in legal journals.
Education
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (PhD in Criminal Law)
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Criminal Law (LLM)
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (LLB)
Languages
- English
- German
- French
Lectures
“The Criminal Dimension of internal investigations and whistleblowing, Strategic use of internal investigations by legal entities”, Educational Seminar conducted on December 16-18th, 2024 in cooperation with Nomiki Vivliothiki.
“Dangerous driving: Dogmatic and Constitutional objections to the addition of point (e) to paragraph 1 of Article 290a of the Criminal Code”, Nomiki Vivliothiki, Conference on the new law 5090/2024, conducted on March 3rd, 2024.
Publications
Overview of the Greek legal framework in relation to bribery and corruption, (Bribery and Corruption), with Ovvadias Namias and Vasileios Petropoulos, contribution in the annual renewed edition, with the aim of updating and enriching developments in current legislation, 9th ed., (2022, pages 89-98), 10th ed., (2023, pages 115-124), 11th ed., (2024, pages 134-143) and 12th ed., (2025, pages 71-79), Global Legal Insights (GLI), Global Legal Group, https://www.globallegalinsights.com/practice-areas/bribery-and-corruption-laws-and-regulations/greece-18/.
Conduct of Internal Investigations in Greece (with Ovvadias Namias, Vasileios Petropoulos and Emmanouil Apostolakis), Chambers and Partners, 2023 and 2024, https://practiceguides.chambers.com/practice-guides/anti-corruption-2025/greece/trends-and-developments.
Trends & Development for International Fraud & Asset Tracing 2025, Greece, with Ovvadias Namias, Vasileios Petropoulos and Emmanouil Apostolakis https://practiceguides.chambers.com/practice-guides/international-fraud-asset-tracing-2024/greece/trends-and-developments.
Medically assisted reproduction II, Art. 26 Law 3305/2005, Attempt-Assistance-Competitionin: Pavlou/Samios, Supplementary penal provisions, 8th Ed., June 2024.
“Dangerous driving: Dogmatic and Constitutional objections to the addition of point (e) to paragraph 1 of Article 290a of the Criminal Code”, Nova Criminalia, April 2024.
A general introduction to Anti-money Laundering in Greece, focusing on practical implications and commercial impacts (with Ovvadias Namias, Vasileios Petropoulos and Emmanouil Apostolakis), Lexology 2024, https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=58e5992a-26d3-4350-9a0f-8fc61bd64ac5.
“Key developments related to anti-corruption legislation and investigations in Greece”, Publication in Anti-Corruption 2020, Global interview panel led by Miller & Chevallier Chartered, Lexology – Getting the Deal Through (2020), (with Ovvadias Namias and Vasileios Petropoulos), pages 109-123, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, https://www.lexology.com/firms/1277036.
Diagnostic error: A contribution to the discourse regarding the distinction between act and omission in cases of diagnostic error, as well as to the determination of the diagnostic duty of diligence. (Diagnostischer Irrtum: Ein Beitrag zur Problematik der Abgrenzung von Tun und Unterlassen beim ärztlichen Diagnosefehler sowie zur Bestimmung der strafrechtlichen Sorgfaltsanforderungen hinsichtlich der ärztlichen Diagnose), PhD Thesis, Nomos/Tectum Verlag 2023.
Disturbing the peace and causing noise music as criminal offence, The Art of Crime, November 2022.
The foundation of the special legal obligation, when the perpetrator of the is a medical practitioner, Nova Criminalia, October 2022.
Medically assisted reproduction I, Introductory Remarks, Art. 26 Law 3305/2005, in: Pavlou/Samios, Supplementary penal provisions, 7th Ed., September 2021.
The breadth of the requested individual’s judicial right to be heard versus the formal check principle within Article 11 el. g’ inst. j) of Law 3251/2004 (European Arrest Warrant), Nova Criminalia issue 13, July 2021.
Trends and Developments in the Greek Anti-Corruption Legislation (with Ovvadias Namias and Vasileios Petropoulos), Chambers and Partners, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, https://practiceguides.chambers.com/practice-guides/anti-corruption-2025/greece/trends-and-developments.
Casual link and protective purpose of the norm concerning cases of medical negligence, Decision of the Supreme Court of Cassation 472/2014, Penal Chronicles 2016, (Poinika Chronika), p. 496 et. seq.