Biography: Aviation

Stelios Stylianou, senior partner of Stylianou & Stylianou, has been practising aviation law for the past 39 years. His firm has acted for major airlines and aviation insurers in all fields of aviation including, but not limited to, air accidents, passenger and cargo claims, litigation of aviation disputes and settlement negotiations.

Among other matters, the firm has been involved in litigation and settlement negotiations in respect of claims arising from: the Swissair accident at Athens airport (1979); the EgyptAir aircraft hijacking on a flight from Athens (1985); the Olympic Airways accident at Samos Island (1989); the Greek Dassault Falcon 900 accident near Bucharest (1999); the EKAB/Helitalia helicopter accidents (2001 and 2002); the fatal air accident of Helios B737-300 near Athens (14 August 2005); the fatal accident of a Greek Army Chinook helicopter (11 September 2004); the crash of an Olympic Aviation Schweizer helicopter near Athens (22 April 2008); and the crash of a Bell 206B helicopter in the area of Crete Island (5 August 2010).

Stelios Stylianou has been a member of the Bar Association of Piraeus since 1972 and is admitted before all courts of Athens and Piraeus, including the Greek Supreme Court (Areopagus) and the Council of State (the supreme administrative court of Greece).

The firm's aviation law team comprises Dina Dousca-Stylianou, Mara Stylianou, Ariana Stylianou and Petros Blessios.

The firm will be moving shortly to new offices in Piraeus.

Stylianou & Stylianou have legal correspondents in all Greek cities and in the Republic of Cyprus.