Maria Paschou is an attorney-at-law admitted to the Athens Bar Association in Greece, and an Associate at Queritius.

Maria has extensive experience in international and domestic dispute settlement, focusing on international commercial and investment treaty arbitration. She has successfully advised and represented clients in high-stake arbitration and litigation matters, ranging from investment treaty cases to contractual disputes across the construction, energy and natural resources, retail and consumer goods, and telecom sectors. Maria has handled cases under various applicable laws and the auspices of various leading arbitration institutions, including ICC, LCIA, ICSID, DIFC, as well as under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.

On the advisory front, Maria has negotiated and drafted complex commercial contracts and has valuable experience in contract, corporate, IP/IT, and privacy law.

Maria is a researcher at the Athens Public International Law Center (Athens PIL) and the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) International Arbitration Moot Coach of the National & Capodistrian University of Athens Law School. She holds an LLB from the Democritus University of Thrace, an LL.M. in Public International Law from the National & Capodistrian University of Athens, as well as a MIDS LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement from the University of Geneva and the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Before joining Queritius, Maria practiced arbitration and litigation with leading law firms in Paris, Dubai, Brussels, and Athens.