Our lawyers

At ELC we work individually, but also as a team to ensure that our clients benefit from the best combination of experience and skill to suit their requirements and budgets. Our Senior Partners are all Supreme Court registered lawyers. Our aim is to be best of breed and we are proud that many of our clients return to ELC for repeat representation. We never forget you have a choice.

All our associate lawyers are happy to help and propose to you tailor made solutions. As can be seen below, all members of ELC are specialists with diverse educational backgrounds.

Constantine Kokkinos (of Counsel), born 1958, E.D. from U.C. Berkeley (USA), has studied International Law at Aix en Provence (France) in Tübingen (Germany) and in Exeter (UK). He is a Supreme Court registered lawyer with many years of experience in Commercial, Aviation and Business Enterprise Law. He is Swiss (from the cantons of Zürich and Graubünden) and Greek citizen and speaks French, English, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish. Constantin is Bar admitted in Geneva (Switzerland) and in Athens (Greece) while he is registered with the Supreme Court of Greece. Constantine Kokkinos is legal counsel of the Swiss Embassy in Greece. Practices law in Switzerland.

Dominique (Dominikos) Arvanitis born 1983 in Geneva, is registered with the Supreme Court of Greece. He is a graduate of Thessaloniki Law School and he holds a PhD in European law from the Panteion University of Athens. Dominique’s areas of practice include civil and commercial law, international litigations and financial disputes. He is Swiss (canton of Fribourg) and Greek citizen and his working languages are Greek, French and English.

Ioannis Vlavianos was born in Paris in 1986. He is a graduate of Athens Law School. He speaks fluently French, Greek, English and has a good level in Italian and Spanish.

Ioannis is an Attorney at Law, member of the Athens Bar Association.

Carmela Telemaco, born in 1988 in Torre del Greco, is an Italian national. She holds a Master's degree in law and a Master's degree in specialised translation from the University of Geneva. She is fluent in French and Italian and has a good knowledge of German, English and Spanish.

Evan Rudaz is a student at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), where he grew up. He holds a bachelor's degree in general law (2022) and is in the process of obtaining a Master's degree in criminal and civil law at the University of Geneva (2023). As part of this Master's degree, he wrote a thesis on "Possession and Ownership of NFTs of Works of Art, analysis from the perspective of Swiss law". He is fluent in French, English and German.

Hugo Charmot, born in 1999 in Geneva, is a French national. He holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Geneva (2022) and is starting a Double Master in International and Comparative Law at the University of Zurich and the University of Amsterdam in September 2023. His mother tongue is French, he is fluent in English and has a good level of German.

Koen-Junior Peirelinck, born in Antwerp (Belgium), moved to Geneva in 2018. He holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Geneva (2021), a Certificate in Transnational Law (2022) and is in the process of obtaining a Master of Law degree from the University of Geneva (2023) with a thesis on "The ratification process and the impact of ILO Convention 190 in Switzerland". He is fluent in Dutch, French and English.