Christos Timagenis

Partner, Timagenis Law Firm

1st Vice President, The International Propeller Club, Port of Piraeus

Christos G. Timagenis is an attorney-at-law admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Greece (Areios Pagos) and a Partner at Timagenis Law Firm, one of Greece's leading maritime law firms. He advises shipowners, publicly listed shipping companies, ship managers, shipbrokers, banks, financial institutions, and shipping investors on shipping, corporate, commercial, and finance matters. His practice focuses on vessel sale and purchase transactions, ship finance, vessel registration, shipping taxation, capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate and commercial law. He is also actively involved in major shipping and commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings. Mr. Timagenis is the author of articles published in the Commercial Law Review of Greece and a frequent speaker at international conferences and industry panels on shipping finance, capital markets, corporate governance, and taxation matters. He joined Timagenis Law Firm in 2009 after practicing corporate, securities, and international finance law at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York. Earlier, he served as a summer associate in the Capital Markets Group of Shearman & Sterling LLP in London. He is a member of the Piraeus Bar Association and the New York State Bar. Mr. Timagenis has served continuously on the Board of Governors of The International Propeller Club, Port of Piraeus, since 2017. He currently serves as First Vice President of the Club, having previously served as General Secretary, First Vice President, and is also an ex officio Director of The International Propeller Club. He is an active member of the Hellenic Maritime Law Association and serves as an alternate Member of the Board of Directors of SDEE, Greece's national association of law firms. He graduated First in Class from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Law and holds LL.M. degrees from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) and New York University School of Law, where he was awarded both a Fulbright Scholarship and the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Scholarship.