Ms Christina Zakopoulou > Bernitsas Law > Athens, Greece > Lawyer Profile
Bernitsas Law Offices
5 LYKAVITTOU STREET
106 72 ATHENS
Greece
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Ms Christina Zakopoulou
Work Department
Corporate and M&A; Real Estate, Land Development & Hospitality.
Position
Senior Associate
Christina is a senior associate at the Firm which she joined in 2000. She specialises in retail and commercial real estate and significant land development projects. Christina’s extensive real estate experience encompasses advice on the acquisition and sale of real estate including commercial, residential, hotel and leisure developments and construction contracts.
In this context she has also advised on town planning and forestry issues. She acts for investors, private equity funds, developers and managers with respect to a variety of high end hotel projects and is active in teams working with real estate consultants, architects, engineers and other professionals. She handles both real estate asset transactions (asset deals) and corporate real estate transactions (share deals). She also advises high net worth individuals with respect to the sale and acquisition of real estate assets in Greece.
Christina has specific expertise in real estate privatisation tenders and the development of real estate assets by the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) since it was established in 2011.
Christina has experience of acting in public and private mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence and share capital increases. She undertakes company structuring and formation and ongoing corporate governance and advises on regulatory compliance. She also structures, drafts and negotiates commercial agency, commercial lease, share sale and purchase, share contribution and other commercial agreements.
Career
Christina is admitted to the Athens Bar (1993) and the Athens Court of Appeals (1997).
Languages
Greek and English.
Education
Christina holds a Degree in Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, European Economic Law and International Business Law from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and an MSc (Graduate Program in Business Studies for Law Practitioners) from The Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA).
Lawyer Rankings
Greece > Real estate and construction
(Rising stars)With a successful track record in advising on complex corporate transactions, ownership structures, developments and financings, the Athens-based Bernitsas Law real estate team shows ‘exceptional immediacy’ in responding to its international and domestic clients. The practice routinely acts in hospitality, residential and office space developments, with the leading duo of Panayotis Bernitsas
and Lambros Belessis being experts in infrastructure projects and corporate restructuring. Eleni Gerasimidou focuses on construction and leasing issues, and Christina Zakopoulou acts for investors, private equity funds and developers.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking, finance and capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Energy
- EU and competition
- Projects and privatisation