Georgios Katrinakis is a licensed lawyer registered with the Athens Bar Association.

Georgios has 24 years of professional experience as a lawyer and is specialised in the conduct of complex litigation in virtually all areas of taxation, including corporate taxation, tax residence, permanent establishment and transfer pricing disputes, indirect taxes (VAT, stamp duties, customs and excise duties), individual and wealth taxation, either defending clients against tax and penalty assessments after the conduct of audits or reclaiming the refund of taxes unduly paid by clients. In addition, Georgios assists criminal defense lawyers in cases of alleged criminal tax evasion. Leveraging from his experience in handling tax audit and tax controversy files, Georgios also advises clients on tax compliance issues.

During the first 4 years of his career Georgios conducted civil/commercial litigation as a member of a reputable Athens-based law firm specializing in company and commercial, capital markets, banking and financial law (Tsibanoulis & Partners). Subsequently he focused on tax litigation and for 11 years he was one of the leading tax litigators in one of the oldest and largest Athens-based law firms, of which he also became a partner (Zepos & Yannopoulos). In 2014 Georgios joined PwC Greece and for 10 years he was the leader of PwC’s tax litigation team in Greece as one of the named partners of “Vizas –Katrinakis and Associates Law Firm”, which was an accredited member firm of the PwC global legal network.

Georgios has represented over the years a multitude of multinational and Greek companies, as well as individual taxpayers, in administrative procedures before the Greek tax authorities and in court proceedings before the Greek administrative courts (including the Greek Supreme Administrative Court) and before the Court of Justice of the European Union.

His academic qualifications include: LL.B. (Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), LL.M. in European & International Law (Durham University, UK), post-graduate diploma in Tax Law (Athens University of Economics and Business) and post-graduate diploma in Accounting (Athens University of Economics and Business). He has been a regular author and contributor of technical (legal, tax) and thought-leadership articles to several tax and business law reviews. He speaks Greek (native), English (fluently) and French (fluently).