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Provided by Koutalidis Law Firm
The ever-changing landscape of EU and Greek energy law is one of the biggest challenges investors and energy companies involved in the Greek energy market have to face. With a solid grasp of the regulatory and legal complexities involved in developing or acquiring energy projects, we provide full scale advice to clients from the start-up investment phase all the way up to the mature stages of a project’s construction and operation as well as day to day advice thereafter.
Our energy law team consists of both specialized lawyers as well as of lawyers with strong multidisciplinary backgrounds – ranging from Greek civil, corporate and administrative law to international law and sector-focused international arbitration. As such, we regularly advise developers, contractors, investors, consultants and lenders on a wide range of energy projects, such as large-scale PV, Wind and Waste Management projects while having been involved in most of the major privatization transactions in the Greek energy markets including but not limited to DEPA S.A and DESFA S.A.
SERVICE FOCUS
- Project structuring and implementation;
- Negotiating acquisition and land lease agreements and preliminary agreements with private land owners;
- Carrying out regulatory licensing works and liaising with the authorities;
- Negotiating project agreements and sub-contracts including but not limited to energy supply contracts, grid connection, EPC contracts etc;
Department Head: Evans Courakis
Chambers Review
Koutalidis Law Firm is particularly renowned for its expertise in handling major privatisations, M&A and financing in the energy market. The team also offers assistance with regulatory and contractual aspects of project development matters in renewable energy.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The Koutalidis team has high expertise, with experience in the relevant fields of work combined with out-of-the-box thinking and creative legal strategy."
"The Koutalidis team has high expertise, with experience in the relevant fields of work combined with out-of-the-box thinking and creative legal strategy."
Notable Practitioners
Evangelos Courakis assists with project development in the energy market, including on matters relating to wind farms and photovoltaic parks. He also handles M&A and advises both domestic and international companies from the energy, utilities and finance sectors.
"Evangelos Courakis is excellent. He can think of creative, business-oriented solutions to complex issues."
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Members
Provided by Koutalidis Law Firm
Betzios Ilias
Bozini Pavlina
Dimitrios Andriopoulos
Head of Department
Koutsou Despina
Maria Lazou
Mylonas Tsoumas Vangelis
Xynou Vaso
Yiannis Loizos
Industries
Provided by Koutalidis Law Firm
Biogas
Conventional
Gas
Grid development
Hydroelectric
PPAs
Photovoltaic
Privatizations
Solar Thermal
Waste to Energy
Wind