Maria Stamatogianni was born in Piraeus, where she lives to date. After graduating from the Hellenic-French School “Jeanne d’ Arc”, she studied law in the Faculty of Law of the Athens University, followed by post-graduate studies in the University of London in International Banking and Finance Law (LL.M King’s College 2003). She is fluent in English, French, German and Spanish. She is a graduate of the “Training Course in Taxation Law” of the Athens University of Economics and Business and a trained Mediator by the Piraeus Mediation Center.
She was admitted in the Piraeus Bar in 2000 and her expertise includes international shipping transactions, ship finance, corporate law, commercial and finance transactions. Since 2012 she acts as in-house counsel to a commercial group of companies.
In 2004-2006 she was a member of the Board of the Trainee and Young Lawyers Association of Piraeus. Presently, she is elected in the Board of the Piraeus Bar since 2014, where she focuses on matters of taxation, social insurance, unlawful impersonation, immigration law, inhouse counseling and women lawyers. Since 2015 she participates in the Greek delegation to the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) and is a member of the Greek Inhouse Counsels’ Association.