Dafni Nikolakudi specialises in international contract law, producer liability and the law of renewable energies. She joined orka in 2008. In 2014 she became a Salary Partner, and in 2018 she became a Partner at orka.

Dafni Nikolakudi studied law at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf including an additional one year trainig in Anglo-American Law. She completed her legal clerkship at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court with a secondment to Eurojust, The Hague. She also completed secondments to various inhouse legal departments as well as to the US firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, Philadelphia.