Mr Alexandros Kosmopoulos > AKL Law Firm > Athens, Greece > Lawyer Profile

With extensive expertise across the financial services, infrastructure, and real estate industries, the AKL Law Firm team specialises in obtaining licenses for urban development projects and handling project financing aspects of motorway initiatives. The practice demonstrates strong cross-border capabilities, routinely dealing with projects spanning across the US and European jurisdictions. Athens-based Alexandros Kosmopoulos heads the group, focusing on both corporate finance matters and the privatisation market, whilst Helen Alexiou is an expert on project development. George Zohios is knowledgeable in M&A transactions, and Kostas Fatsis is another key contact in the group.

The ‘agile‘ and ‘very friendly’ team at AKL Law Firm provides a ‘responsive and transparent service’ to a lender-focused client base on syndicated and bilateral loans to facilitate M&A activity and large projects. Team head Alexandros Kosmopoulos‘ ‘wealth of experience in the banking industry shines through in every aspect of his work’, including for systemic Greek banks, such as Eurobank, which he recently advised in relation to the recapitalisation of Ellaktor and the refinancing of its RES portfolio. The ‘incredibly talented’ George Zohios is also recommended and is appreciated for ‘his ability to simplify the most intricate financial matters’.

Displaying ‘commitment and honesty’, the AKL Law Firm real estate team has cemented its place at the top of the market thanks to its extensive expertise in M&A, regeneration projects and development financing. The practice has a growing presence in the planning and environmental restriction space, to add to its already established offering in the licensing procedure sphere. Athens-based practice heads Constantine Alexiou and Helen Alexiou specialise in project finance proceedings and routinely act on urban regeneration schemes. Alexandros Kosmopoulos supports clients in complex development initiatives and infrastructure projects, and Eleftheria Vassila frequently advises real estate development corporations.

Displaying extensive expertise in assisting local and multinational clients with the structuring of high-profile corporate transactions, AKL Law Firm is renowned for its ‘responsiveness, market intelligence and efficiency’. The practice is especially strong in the real estate and infrastructure spaces, routinely navigating the legal and regulatory landscape applicable to privatisation projects and tender processes. In Athens, ‘creative’ practice head Alexandros Kosmopoulos is an expert in acquisition and project finance matters, and George Zohios specialises in commercial and M&A mandates, whilst the ‘commercially astute’ Kostas Fatsis is noted for his work on complex corporate transactions.

The ‘proactive, tech savvy, collaborative and extremely resourceful’ team at AKL Law Firm is valued for its ‘realistic‘ approach to court practices – resulting in it being a popular choice on behalf of stakeholders in contentious insolvency matters. Sotiris Foteas is at the forefront of many of the most significant mandates handled by the team and senior partner Constantine Alexiou is also recommended for his wide-ranging commercial litigation expertise. The third of the lead lawyers, Alexandros Kosmopoulos, who heads the banking and finance group, brings this expertise to restructuring cases.