Dafni Nikolakudi specializes in international contract law, producer liability and renewable energies. She joined orka in 2008. She became a salary partner in 2014 and a partner at orka in 2018.

Dafni Nikolakudi studied law at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf with an additional two-semester course in Anglo-American law. She completed her legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf with a station in The Hague. She undertook secondments in legal departments and at the law firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, Philadelphia (U.S.A.).