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Practice Areas

Corporate and M&A, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, Land Development & Hospitality.

Career

Lambros is an expert in private sector mergers, acquisitions and corporate restructurings of international companies with a presence in Greece. He joined the Firm in 2000 and is specialised in structuring, documenting and negotiating commercial transactions, advising extensively on distribution networks, share-purchase agreements, joint venture partnerships and corporate structuring.

Professional Memberships

Athens Bar; Supreme Court of Greece.

Publications

Co- author of the Greece Chapter in The Intellectual Property Review published by Law Business Research and edited by Dominick A. Conde of Venable LLP.

Clients

Assicurazioni Generali, BMW Group of Companies, GIC, Hipoges Iberia, Hellenic Healthcare, Kosmocar, Lundbeck Hellas, MBC Group, Media Saturn Holding GmbH, North Star Group, Percassi, Prodege LLC, Saint-Gobain Group, UPS Greece.

Work Highlights

Recent experience includes advising GIC, a global institutional investor, on the Greek leg of their entry as a new capital partner in Hotel Investment Partners (HIP).

Lambros advised CNH Industrial, a global leader in agriculture and construction equipment, technology and services, on the acquisition of 90% of the Augmenta Group, which specializes in software and hardware developed for agricultural purposes.

He advised the majority shareholders of Ydrogios Insurance in their entry into an agreement for the sale of 80% of their share capital with the Italian Reale Group and an international investor on their participation in the acquisition of Med Frigo Group, a group of companies which operates and provides integrated services in national and international transportation and cold chain logistics.

Experience

Lambros has extensive experience in real estate development and acquisition projects, advising on commercial agreements and corporate transactions in the hospitality, commercial, industrial and high-end residential markets.

He assists clients in the protection and exploitation of their intellectual and industrial property. He provides ongoing advice to companies from a highly diversified range of industries, including car manufacturing, private insurance, pharmaceuticals, software and IT, on the full range of issues arising in the course of their business operations, their entry into commercial agreements, company formation, corporate governance and risk management and compliance.

Lambros holds a Degree in Law from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, an LLM in International Business Law from The George Washington University National Law Centre and an MSc (Graduate Program in Business Studies for Law Practitioners) from the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA). He is admitted to the Athens Bar (1996) and the Supreme Court of Greece (2018).

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Lambros Belessis is a skilled lawyer who advises prominent international investors and corporate clients on the Greek law aspects of multinational corporate deals.

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