Ms Rania Papakonstantinou > Zepos & Yannopoulos > Athens, Greece > Lawyer Profile
Zepos & Yannopoulos Offices
280 KIFISSIAS AVE
HALANDRI
152 32 ATHENS
Greece
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Ms Rania Papakonstantinou
Work Department
Employment & Labour
Position
Rania Papakonstantinou is a partner and head of our employment & labour practice.
Rania has extensive experience in advising international and domestic clients on employment and labour matters. She regularly advises on work-force reductions, hiring and separation of executive employees, transfers of undertakings, employee benefits and collective redundancies. She also handles the employment aspects of various international business transactions, including corporate restructurings, privatizations, close-downs, and mergers and acquisitions. Rania is recognized by many international legal publications as a leading practitioner in her field in Greece.
She was admitted to the Athens Bar in 2000 and joined our firm in 2001.
Rania is admitted before the Court of Appeals.
Languages
Greek, English and Spanish
Education
University of Thrace, Faculty of Law (LL.B., 1997) University of Manchester (LL.M. in International Business Law, 1998) University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College (LL.M. in Banking and Finance Law, 1999)
Lawyer Rankings
Greece > Employment
(Leading partners)Advising clients on the full range of employment matters, from day-to-day HR management and compliance to M&A and restructuring projects, Zepos & Yannopoulos is praised for being ‘very commercially oriented’. The team is well versed in handling redundancy processes and voluntary exit plans, predominantly focusing on the infrastructure, telecoms and engineering sectors. Practice lead Rania Papakonstantinou is an expert in workforce reductions and transfers of undertakings. Manolis Zacharakis focuses on the termination of employment contracts; Tasos Chrysochoou is a strong employment litigator; and Matina Andrikopoulou stands out for her knowledge on social security issues.