Dimitrios Christopoulos
Managing Partner
D.C. CHRISTOPOULOS & PARTNERS LAW FIRM
Dimitri is the founding and managing partner of D. C.
Christopoulos Law Firm. He has extensive experience in the field of taxation law and
acted as External Legal Counsel to the Ministry of Finance on Corporate Taxation issues
from 1993-1995. Other appointments include membership of the Board of Directors
of the Franchise Association of Greece in 1997 and still is Board member in companies
of food, press, energy, real estate, financial services and sports.
Dimitri is experienced in advising in all types of Real Estate and development
projects, with a particular focus on the hotel, catering, leisure, time-sharing and tourism
industries. He also has established a specialization in advising on the protection of
Intellectual & Industrial Property rights, often working cross-border with
correspondent law firms. In 1999, Dimitri acted in the first buyout of a domestic
company by an international fund to take place in Greece, establishing his expertise in
the area of Mergers & Acquisitions. He represents clients in Litigation & Dispute
Resolution matters arising in all of the firm’s areas of practice, in particular tax and white
collar crime, and advises local administrative bodies in respect of the liability of
companies to tax.
Dimitri has represented a number of clients in their bids in tenders for
telecommunications licenses, but also in the transport sector.
Dimitri contributes regularly to the legal and financial press. He has been
published widely in “Erga Omnes”, a legal publication of which he is on the Editorial
Board, and the “Hotelier”, a leading publication in the tourism industry. Dimitri qualified
to the Athens Bar in 1994. Having graduated from the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens in 1990, he attended the Universite de Bordeaux, from which he
obtained a DEA de droit Public & Fiscal in 1992, as well as a LLM in business law in the
law university of California at Berkeley in 1993.
Since 2016 he teaches at National School of Judges. He is also a visiting
professor at the Economics Department of the University of Peloponnese and the
Institute of Continuing Education of the Armed Forces.
