Panagiotis Chalkias
Panagiotis Chalkias
He is an all-around great guy and an outstanding lawyer
Biography
Panagiotis Chalkias is an Associate in the Firm's International Arbitration Practice and is based in Geneva. Over the past 14 years, Panagiotis has been involved as counsel, arbitrator and secretary of the arbitral tribunal in over 40 international arbitrations under all major arbitration rules, spanning various governing laws from both civil and common law countries.
His current practice includes advising and representing clients in a variety of industries (e.g. construction & engineering, mining & metals, oil & gas, distribution, finance, energy, manufacturing & industrial, shareholders disputes and telecommunications). He also maintains an active pro bono practice, including matters relating to access to justice and a healthy environment.
Prior to joining White & Case, Panagiotis worked as an associate at an international arbitration boutique in Brussels and as legal consultant at the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration and Mediation Center in Geneva.
Experience
Panagiotis' experience includes:
Representing a CIS company in ICC arbitral proceedings arising out of an agreement related to transactions in the metals industry;
Acting as sole arbitrator in a Swiss Arbitration Centre expedited arbitration relating to the distribution of pharmaceutical products;
Representing a European investment company in a Swiss Arbitration Centre arbitration relating to an oil & gas project in Latin America;
Representing parties in an ICC arbitration relating to a share purchase transaction in the oil & gas industry;
Advising a CIS company in respect of a sales contract in the aluminum industry;
Representing a joint venture EPC contractor in ICC arbitral proceedings arising out of a European power plant project;
Representing a major Asian company specialized in the mining industry in separate ICC arbitration proceedings concerning the development and exploitation of mines in Africa;
Representing a European general contractor in an ICC arbitration against a subcontractor concerning the construction of a technical plant in a Nordic state;
Representing a European general contractor in an ICC arbitration concerning the construction of a power plant in the Middle East;
Representing a European general contractor in two ICC arbitrations concerning a dispute relating to the construction of an industrial process plant in Australia; and
Representing a bank in a Swiss Arbitration Centre (SAC) expedited arbitration concerning the validity of a shared liability agreement.
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"He is an all-around great guy and an outstanding lawyer"
Speaker, Young ICCA Workshop on Oral Advocacy, Milan, 26 November 2025;
Speaker, "Pitch effectively", ICC YAAF event on Reshaping Tomorrow's Legal Leaders, Athens, 24 November 2025;
Speaker, "Written and Oral Advocacy in International Arbitration", ICDR Y&I Workshop, Athens, 18 July 2025;
Speaker, "Defects and Damages in Swiss and International Construction Arbitration", Webinar Series of the Swiss Arbitration Association in cooperation with the Ukrainian Arbitration Association, 3 June 2025;
Speaker, "Oral Advocacy in International Arbitration", Young ICCA workshop, Riga (1 June 2024);
Speaker, "Hearing Preparation", IASC's GoArb Madrid 2023, Madrid, Spain (6 July 2023);
Moderator, "The Year is 2032: the "Old Approach" to Witness Evidence is no Longer Fit for Purpose", Young ICCA, Edinburgh (21 September 2022);
Speaker, "Challenging clients, difficult counsel, lying witnesses and biased arbitrators", ASA below 40, Zurich (22 October 2021);
Speaker, "Introduction to Arbitral Secretary Appointments", Young ICCA, webinar (29 September 2021);
Speaker, "How to draft a Request for Arbitration and conduct cross-examination in international arbitration", ELSA Athens Summer Law School on International Investment Law, Athens, Greece (21 August 2020);
Speaker, "Working with experts in international arbitration", ICDR Y&I, Athens, Greece (14 February 2020);
Speaker, "How to draft a Request for Arbitration and an Answer to the Request", ELSA Athens Summer Law School on International Investment Law, Athens, Greece (22 August 2019);
Speaker, "Interim measures in international arbitration", IASC's GoArb Madrid 2019, Madrid, Spain (5 July 2019); and
Speaker, "How to draft a Request for Arbitration" and "How to draft Procedural Order No. 1 and Terms of Appointment", ELSA Athens Summer Law School on International Investment Law, Athens, Greece (22 August 2018).
Co-author with Maria Athanasiou of the Greek translation of ICCA's Guide to the Interpretation of the 1958 New York Convention, Second edition (forthcoming);
Co-author with Christopher Bloch, Kluwer book on International Arbitration in Practice, Chapter on the "Secretary to the Arbitral Tribunal" (March 2025);
Co-author with Laura Denise Jaroslavsky Consoli, Article on "Space-related disputes – The current landscape and specific intellectual property aspects", Jus Mundi (forthcoming);
Author, "Commentary on judgment 4A 520/2021 issued by the Swiss Supreme Court related to arbitrators' conflicts of interest" (in Greek), in Arbitration & ADR bulletin issued by Nomiki Vivliothiki (December 2022);
Co-author with Ank Santens, "The 2022 Amendments to the ICSID Rules and Regulations – An Effort to Address Two Key Criticisms of Investor-State Arbitration", in Caroline Verbruggen and Maarten Draye (eds), b-Arbitra (Belgian Review of Arbitration), Wolters Kluwer 2022, Volume 2022, Issue 2
Author, "Annulment of arbitral award by third parties – Commentary on judgment No. 21/2017 issued by the Belgian Constitutional Court" (in Greek), in Arbitration & ADR bulletin issued by Nomiki Vivliothiki (June 2018);
Co-author with Maria Athanasiou of the Greek translation of ICCA's Guide to the Interpretation of the 1958 New York Convention, First edition (March 2013);
Co-author with Ignacio de Castro, Singapore Academy of Law Journal, Special Issue on Intellectual Property (24 SAcLJ), Mediation and Arbitration of Intellectual Property and Technology Disputes (December 2012); and
Co-author with Ignacio de Castro, Arbitration World, Fourth Edition 2012, Chapter on WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (September 2012).