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Key contacts
Managing Partner: Panagiotis Drakopoulos
Partner: Mika Lalaouni
Quick facts
Number of lawyers

35

Number of partners

10

Network memberships

IBA, INTA, IAPP, WIPO

Languages

English, Greek, Romanian, French, German, Spanish, Italiannish

Key practice areas
Banking and finance
Banking
Project finance
Capital markets
Capital markets : Debt
Capital markets : Equity
Financial and corporate
Corporate and M&A
M&A
Project development
Firm overview

Drakopoulos has been providing legal services to businesses since 1992. The firm has grown considerably since formation, offeriang today centralized, streamlined services across SE europe via 3 main offices in Athens, Bucharest and Nicosia. A team of highly skilled lawyers provides professional services and legal expertise, responding efficiently to complex legal problems with flexible commercial solutions, helping clients to achieve their business objectives.
Drakopoulos assists clients on all aspects of their day-to-day corporate life, including inter alia corporate finance and capital adequacy requirements, corporate distributions, as well as drafting of corporate agreements, such as sale, purchase and supply contracts, outsourcing agreements, service level agreements and commercial leases.

The team possesses also significant experience in helping multinational clients adjust their global arrangements and strategies to domestic legal requirements, while promoting their global policies and procedures in the best possible manner and integrates support from our different specialized legal teams in order to provide clients with 360o legal support.

Our orientation is uniquely international. The vast majority of our clientele consists of companies and law firms from all over the world. Most of the transactions we are handling are cross-border and span industry sectors, and our expertise can help businesses chart their way through this legally complex arena.
Our "One Instruction, One Invoice" concept gives centralized, streamlined support across SE Europe via 3 main offices in Athens, Bucharest and Nicosia. Through this concept, we aim at offering a uniform service, geared towards having clients with multinational presence avoid dealing with different interfaces, legal systems, mentalities; instead, we offer one single point of reference and style of service for the entire region.

Drakopoulos firmly believes that businesses should deliver social value alongside financial returns by actively embracing inclusion policies that promote equality, diversity and visibility in the workplace.

Acknowledging that responsible business action is a true investment, Drakopoulos embraces ESG initiatives as the key in creating additional value and long-term sustainability.

Key practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets: Debt
  • Investment funds
  • Capital markets: Equity
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • M&A
  • PPP/PFI
  • Private equity funds
  • Private equity
  • Project bonds
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Real estate funds
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Structured finance/securitisation
Other offices

5 Lunei Str., 030167 Bucharest, Romania
T: +40 21 3000154
E: romania@drakopoulos-law.com
W: www.drakopoulos-law.com

12 Nicodemou Mylona Str., 6050 Larnaca, Cyprus
T: +357 24002406
E: cyprus@drakopoulos-law.com
W: www.drakopoulos-law.com

 

Address:
332 Kifissias Avenue
Athens
Tel:+30 210 6836561 Fax:+30 210 6836538 Email:Contact Us Web Address:https://www.drakopoulos-law.com/
Rankings published in 2026
Banking and finance
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Capital markets
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Bernitsas
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Tier 2

Kyriakides Georgopoulos Law Firm
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Lambadarios Law Firm
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Papapolitis & Papapolitis
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Zepos & Yannopoulos
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DRYLLERAKIS LAW FIRM
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Moratis Passas
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Tsibanoulis & Partners
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Tier 4

Machas & Partners
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Norton Rose Fulbright
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Bahas Gramatidis & Partners
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M&A
Tier 4
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Bernitsas
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Karatzas & Partners
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Koutalidis Law Firm
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PotamitisVekris
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Tier 2

DRYLLERAKIS LAW FIRM
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Kyriakides Georgopoulos Law Firm
9 practice areas
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Lambadarios Law Firm
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Papapolitis & Papapolitis
10 practice areas
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Saplegal - AS Papadimitriou & Partners
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Zepos & Yannopoulos
10 practice areas
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Tier 3

AKL
8 practice areas
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KLC Law Firm
10 practice areas
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Machas & Partners
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Norton Rose Fulbright
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Watson Farley & Williams
10 practice areas
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DVLAW
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Drakopoulos
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KBVL
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Masouros & Partners
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Souriadakis Tsibris
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Moratis Passas
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Politis & Partners
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Tsibanoulis & Partners
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VAP Law Offices
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Vassilogeorgis And Partners
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Project development
Tier 4
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Tier 1

Bernitsas
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Karatzas & Partners
10 practice areas
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Koutalidis Law Firm
10 practice areas
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Lambadarios Law Firm
9 practice areas
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PotamitisVekris
10 practice areas
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Zepos & Yannopoulos
10 practice areas
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Tier 2

AKL
8 practice areas
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KLC Law Firm
10 practice areas
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Kyriakides Georgopoulos Law Firm
9 practice areas
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Watson Farley & Williams
10 practice areas
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Your Legal Partners
10 practice areas
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Tier 3

DRYLLERAKIS LAW FIRM
10 practice areas
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KBVL
4 practice areas
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Norton Rose Fulbright
9 practice areas
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Papapolitis & Papapolitis
10 practice areas
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Tier 4

DVLAW
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Drakopoulos
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Machas & Partners
10 practice areas
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Michailopoulos & Associates
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Politis & Partners
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Tsibanoulis & Partners
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Marinos Petroulias & Partners
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Vassilogeorgis And Partners
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Founded in 1992, Drakopoulos is a full-service law firm with Greek offices in Athens, Bucharest, Larnaca and Tirana and is at present led by managing partner Panagiotis Drakopoulos.

Highlights

Partner Mika Lalaouni, assisted by associate Isidoros Skavdis, advised Indogreece Project 1 on the issuance of a USD670,000 bond underwritten by Seneco Holding ZRT. The bond was issued to provide liquidity to Indogreece Project 1 and was subordinated to loans granted by an external financing bank. The deal closed on December 2024.

Panagiotis Drakopoulos and Mika Lalaouni, supported by Georgia Konstantinidou, Sofia Angelakou, and Eirini Galanou, advised Marsh McLennan/Guy Carpenter & Company on the acquisition of the remaining 51.5% stake in Carpenter Turner. The deal closed on January 2025 for USD26 million.

A cross-departmental group of corporate, energy and regulatory lawyers, led by Partner Mika Lalaouni, advised the Hellenic Ministry of the Environment and Energy on the Apollo programme, which aims to reduce energy costs for vulnerable consumers and municipalities.

Zoi Nikolaidi joined as a senior associate in the corporate and M&A department from the Special Office of the Secretary-General for Transport, Greek Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in January 2025.

Testimonials

“We value their expertise, proactivity, responsiveness and ability to be a good partner.” - M&A

“Drakopuolos has a very commercial approach to structuring, negotiations and document drafting. The team always sought to find solutions.” - M&A

“The firm has obvious local expertise in insurance transactions.” - M&A

Mika Lalaouni is always available and responsive, ready to support and look for proper solutions to mitigate risks connected with transactions. Mika is also excellent in drafting.” - M&A

Panagiotis Drakopoulos uses his wealth of experience to cut through complexity and find solutions.” - M&A 
 
Key Clients

Marsh McLennan/Guy Carpenter & Company, Brook Lane Capital, Orphee Beinoglou International Forwarders, Astronergy Solar Netherlands BV, Bracer Investment Properties I, Hellenic Ministry of the Environment and Energy, Astronergy Solar Netherlands 

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Deal Highlights
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Deal Name Deal Date Firm Name Jurisdiction Deal Type Lawyer Names Client Names Client Role
Quartzelec - Project Development
2020-08-01
Drakopoulos
Greece
Project development
Michalis Kosmopoulos
Quartzelec
Contractor
SYNTHESIS STRUCTURED TRADE FINANCE - Bond issue
2021-02-25
Drakopoulos
Greece
Bond issue
Panagiotis Drakopoulos
SYNTHESIS STRUCTURED TRADE FINANCE
Issuer
Softone Technologies - M&A
2022-06-17
Drakopoulos
Greece
M&A
Panagiotis Drakopoulos, Alexandros Katsantonis, Georgia Konstantinidou
Softone Technologies
Acquirer
Softone Technologies - M&A
2022-02-15
Drakopoulos
Greece
M&A
Panagiotis Drakopoulos, Georgia Konstantinidou
Softone Technologies
Acquirer
Livewise - M&A
2022-06-14
Drakopoulos
Greece
M&A
Panagiotis Drakopoulos, Georgia Konstantinidou, Eirini Galanou
Livewise
Seller
Livewise - M&A
2022-06-30
Drakopoulos
Greece
M&A
Panagiotis Drakopoulos, Georgia Konstantinidou, Eirini Galanou
Livewise
Seller
Mellon Group of Companies - M&A
2022-09-26
Drakopoulos
Greece
M&A
Panagiotis Drakopoulos, Georgia Konstantinidou
Mellon Group of Companies
Acquirer
Mellon Technologies - M&A
2022-12-30
Drakopoulos
Greece
M&A
Panagiotis Drakopoulos, Mika Lalaouni
Mellon Technologies
Acquirer
Ricardo - M&A
2023-01-24
Drakopoulos
Greece
M&A
Panagiotis Drakopoulos, Mika Lalaouni, Alexandros Katsantonis, Eirini Galanou
Ricardo
Acquirer
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