Spyros Pantazis

Spyros Pantazis is a partner at Pantazis & Associates and leads the firm's criminal law practice. He is a registered lawyer at the Athens Bar Association, holding an LLB from the University of Essex, an LLB from the Democritus University of Thrace, and an LLM from the University of Nottingham, completed as an IKY State Scholarships Foundation scholar. Criminal work runs to its own clock, which is why Spyros Pantazis as a lawyer is reachable outside office hours.

His practice covers the full range of criminal defence work — homicide and serious crime, white collar and cyber crime, drug law violations, robbery, burglary and arson, document and travel fraud, and medical negligence — with exclusive 24-hour availability for cases requiring immediate representation, including flagrant crime proceedings where a client can be brought before a court within days of arrest.

Spyros is particularly known for his work defending asylum seekers and refugees prosecuted under Greece's smuggling laws — cases where individuals who steered or assisted during their own sea crossing are charged as smugglers, sometimes facing sentences running into decades. His advocacy on trial fairness in these cases has been covered by international press, including The Guardian and Inkstick Media, where he has raised serious questions about whether defendants in these prosecutions receive a fair hearing under European law. As a lawyer, Spyros Pantazis takes cases where the procedural safeguards matter as much as the underlying facts.

This combination — rigorous criminal defence technique alongside a genuine commitment to due process for the most vulnerable defendants — gives Spyros a distinct voice within the firm's litigation practice, and informs how the firm approaches criminal matters more broadly. Urgent criminal matters can reach him directly, at any hour.