Dr. Orestis Omran is a Partner in the Brussels Office of DLA Piper and the Co-Head of the firm’s Greece Country Group. He leads the firm’s practice in both Greece and Cyprus. He focuses on international corporate and finance transactions in the energy, banking and infrastructure sectors. Orestis has closed complex transactions and structured multi-million projects in many jurisdictions, having also represented clients in formal and informal state aid investigations before the European Commission, national regulatory authorities and subsequent proceedings before the EU Courts. He also advises governments and energy companies on both contentious and non-contentious matters and has extensive experience across the energy sector including on RES and Hydrogen projects, PPAs, oil and gas and interconnection cables and pipelines. He has led significant asset and stock acquisitions, privatizations, IPOs, structured and project finance transactions and has also been acting for the Greek Government in some of the most high-profile matters before the European Commission and other international institutions. Orestis is considered one of the top international lawyers in Greece. Orestis is also the co-founder and Chairman of Synergia, a prominent Greek think tank with hubs across Greece and in major European cities which aims at structuring government proposals for the legislative and executive branches.