Lydia Rachianioti

• Advising clients investigated by the Hellenic Competition Commission for alleged competition-law infringements, including collusive tendering and horizontal price-fixing cases in the construction, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical sectors. 
• Advising clients in contentious and noncontentious matters involving distribution agreements, copyright and trademark infringements, and competition law. 
• Working with a team of lawyers and economists in a stand-alone opt-out collective action on an abuse of dominance claim.

Lydia Rachianioti is a staff attorney in Alston & Bird’s Antitrust Team. Based in the London office, she focuses her practice on all aspects of EU and UK competition law across a wide range of industries, including antitrust damages actions and digital platforms.

Before joining Alston & Bird, Lydia worked for a law firm in Athens, Greece, concentrating in competition and intellectual property law. In the UK, Lydia has worked on competition and commercial litigation cases, as well as on banking and finance matters at London law firms.

Lydia earned an LL.B. at the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece. Lydia also holds an LL.M. in competition, innovation, and trade law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, with a strong focus on digital markets and the intersection of competition and intellectual property law.

Languages

• English
• Greek
• French

Bar Admissions

• Greece

Education

• London School of Economics & Political Science (LL.M., 2018)
• Democritus University of Thrace (LL.B., 2016)