Mr Nassos Felonis > Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners > Athens, Greece > Lawyer Profile
Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners Offices
26 FILELLINON STREET
10558 ATHENS
Greece
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Mr Nassos Felonis
Work Department
Head of Mining, Energy, Natural Resources & Environmental law.
Other areas of practice: Contracts, Corporate Law, Foreign Investment, Government & Public Procurement, Project Finance.
Position
Partner. Nassos Felonis, Partner of the Firm established in 2001, is a leading practitioner in Natural & Renewable Resources, Energy, Minerals and Environmental Law. He is a recognized expert in complex corporate projects and investment-related legal and regulatory matters, and puts his decades of practice in Greece and the U.S. to work for his clients. Over the course of his career, he has served as Associate Lecturer at the NYU Law School in New York, worked at Healy and Baillie in Wall Street and at the International Finance Corporation (IFC, an affiliate of the World Bank) in Washington D.C. He has published extensively on government procurement, technology transfer and licensing, foreign investment and privatization. Mr. Felonis headed the work group that prepared the draft bill for the Hellenic Ministry of Development to enact the legislative framework for third party financing (TPF) in energy-savings projects in Greece.
Career
2022 – now / Special Advisor to Management, Greece/ Board Member of Eldorado Gold Corporation’s subsidiary companies in Greece.
2012 – 2021 / General Counsel, Greece/Board Member of Eldorado Gold Corporation’s three subsidiary companies in Greece, i.e. Hellas Gold which operates the Kassandra Mines in Halkidiki, and Thracean Gold Mining/TGM and Thrace Minerals for the Perama Gold and Sapes Gold Projects in Thrace, respectively. Recipient of The Legal 500 2019 GC Powerlist Award recognizing Legal Department innovation, quality and excellence.
1985 – 1997 / Hellenic Alumina Industry S.A. (subsidiary of Hellenic Industrial Development Bank/ETVA) – Director of Legal Department
1992 – 2001 / Athanasios Felonis & Associates, Corporate and Business Law Firm – Founder and Principal
1987 – 1991 / Massouridis & Partners Law Office – Senior Associate
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| 1990 – 2015 | Alpine Center S.A. Swiss Hotel Management School |
| 1995 – 2003 | Falcon Sailing Hellas S.A. and O.A. Yacht Charter S.A., companies of the Thomas Cook Group International |
| 1993 – 2000 | Thomas Cook Financial Services |
| 1983 – 1984 | METBA S.A. Aegean Metallurgical Industries |
1980 – 1982 / World Bank/International Finance Corporation (IFC), Washington, DC/ USA – Legal Department, Lawyer
1979 – 1980 / Healy & Baillie Law Firm (Wall Street, New York/USA) – Associate
Languages
Greek, English
Memberships
Athens Bar Association,
Piraeus Bar Association,
Hellenic Institute of Foreign & International Law,
Association of Commercial Lawyers of Greece,
International & American Bar Associations,
American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce,
British-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce
Education
Law School of the Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki (LL.B.) with honors,
NYU Law School (M.CJ.) on the Anglo-American Legal System with honors,
NYU Law School (LL.M.) in International Legal, Business & Financial Studies with honors