Julia Pournara is a Legal Counsel, Partner with “Platis-Anastassiadis and Associates” law firm, associated with Ernst & Young. She studied Law at the University of Athens (LLB) and at Bristol University Law School, UK (LLM).
Julia specializes in Business Law, M&As and Healthcare Law. In a career of over 25 years she has gained significant experience in complex Mergers and Acquisitions, as well as corporate and business restructurings and advises clients through all aspects and stages of such legal transactions and transformations, with a high degree of individualistic attention to their particularities and business needs. Julia’s expertise further includes assistance on compliance obligations stemming from competition law, as well as corporate and business regulation. In this framework, she has supported numerous corporations in related defense proceedings or with advisory services, as well internal audits and external dawn raids performed by the Hellenic Competition Commission and other supervisory administrative authorities. She also regularly trains clients on competition law and overall compliance topics and policies.
Through her long years of advising healthcare companies, she has been further to combine deep regulatory knowledge and an analytical understanding of strategy and business in the life sciences sector. In this respect Julia has assisted numerous renowned multinational healthcare companies to manage the full spectrum range of legal challenges they faced.
Julia acts as an active speaker on diversified legal topics and writer on articles in legal journals.