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Provided by Ioannis Alexopoulos
Practice Areas
Ioannis has extensive experience representing clients in high-value and complex matters, whether pursuant to institutional rules or in ad hoc proceedings. His specialisms include commercial and business disputes with an emphasis on joint venture and shareholder disputes, shareholder protection, business break-ups, fraud, and project disputes.
Ioannis has particular expertise across various sectors including financial services, energy/oil and gas, international trade, mining and natural resources, telecoms, and IT. His key geographies are Greece, the Balkans, Russia and Central Asia, with additional exposure in the Middle East, Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa.
Ioannis has extensive expertise representing clients in arbitrations under ICC and LCIA rules, as well as others including SCC and UNCITRAL. His cases often involve an international element, usually with competing multiple jurisdictions and laws. Clients include banks or their clients, insurers, intermediaries, venture capitalists and equity investors, and large corporates in England and internationally. Ioannis also advises in connection with investor state disputes.
Career
Associate Holman Fenwick Willan 1990; Partner DLA Piper 1998; Partner Bryan Cave 2015; Partner Signature Litigation 2016.
Professional Memberships
London Solicitors Litigation Association; International Bar Association; Lex Anglo-Brasil and Comitê Brasileiro de Arbitragem (CBAr).
Personal
Ioannis is fluent in both English and Greek, as well as conversational Portuguese.
Chambers Review
UK
Ioannis Alexopoulos displays a breadth of experience representing claimants and defendants in civil fraud matters, with particular expertise advising on joint venture and shareholder disputes and business break-ups.
Ioannis Alexopoulos brings long-standing experience in high-value commercial disputes seated across various jurisdictions. He is also adept at handling BIT claims.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Ioannis is a great team leader and a wonderful person."
"Ioannis is very experienced and knowledgeable."
"He is outstanding and very experienced in arbitrations."
"He is calm, but fast and decisive in actions, a brilliant mediator and negotiator and a lawyer who can handle various delicate matters related to resolution of disputes."
"Ioannis is excellent. He's straight-talking and has an excellent ability to analyse issues in cases and knows what you need to focus on and how to get there. He is commercial and practically minded."
"He's a very experienced practitioner and has been involved in a lot of significant cases. He knows his way around this area."
"Ioannis is a great team leader and a wonderful person."
"Ioannis is very experienced and knowledgeable."
"He is outstanding and very experienced in arbitrations."
"He is calm, but fast and decisive in actions, a brilliant mediator and negotiator and a lawyer who can handle various delicate matters related to resolution of disputes."
"Ioannis is excellent. He's straight-talking and has an excellent ability to analyse issues in cases and knows what you need to focus on and how to get there. He is commercial and practically minded."
"He's a very experienced practitioner and has been involved in a lot of significant cases. He knows his way around this area."
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