Experience

• Provision of legal advice and services to a UK based private equity firm for the negotiations and execution of the relevant draft agreements with a global chain of premium 5 star luxury hotels, in relation with a high-end hotel and residential development in Greece.  
• Provision of legal advice and services to a joint venture on legal issues related to the Project/Concession Agreement for the Development, Construction and Exploitation of a Marina, a Shopping Center and a Residential Area in the Island of Rhodes, Greece.
• Provision of advice and legal services to RCI (Resort Condominiums International), the industry leader and the world’s largest provider of vacation ownership products. Our involvement consists of covering the whole range of company legal work, providing legal advice for the affiliation of Greek Resorts under timeshare status, as well as advising clients of RCI on various land and leisure real estate developments.  
• Provision of legal advice and services to Diamond Resorts Mediterranean Plc., (being one of the leading holiday ownership companies with more than 10.000 Northern European families as members) on all their structural, contractual, tax development and operational legal issues.  
• Preparation and delivery of a report to the Greek Ministry of Touristic Development  regarding the new hotel resorts and leisure real estate developments in the world (in cooperation with professors of the Universities of Athens and Thessaly). She was also involved in making the required modifications needed for the national legislation.  
• Provision of legal advice and services to a UK based private equity fund, on a hotel project to be constructed in accordance with the Greek construction and hotel legislation, and a residential project to be constructed in accordance with the Greek private town planning legislation, known as “PERPO.”  
• Provision of legal advice and services to a Greek based private equity fund, regarding the construction of a hotel and residential resort in Corfu.  
• Provision of legal advice and services to timeshare developers in the islands of Crete (Hersonissos and Rethymnon) and Rhodes.  
• Provision of legal advice and services to a Cypriot hotelier for the conversion of his resort development into a condo resort.  
   

Recommendations

Avramopoulos & Partners specialises in advising developers on large-scale projects and counts Karma Group and Hard Rock International as key clients. The tax aspects of real estate transactions are a key area of expertise. Founding partner Vassilis Avramopoulos co-heads the practice with leisure sector expert, Yanna Antonopoulou, and shipping lawyer and maritime development specialist, Vicky Kolintza.
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Avramopoulos & Partners has extensive experience within labor and employment matters, regularly handling litigation cases and dispute resolution. Advisory includes the oversight of employment contracts, termination, post-termination restrictions, developing employee handbooks, compliance of EU regulations, downsizing and restructurings. Its comprehensive service is regularly supported by the lawyers within its corporate, commercial and business development department. Athanassios Avgeros and Yanna N Antonopoulou head the practice. (European Legal 500, 2022 ed.).

Avramopoulos & Partners is able to provide domestic and international clients with a combination of real estate and tax advice in the context of strategically-significant investment transactions. Its team is also knowledgeable about development projects and finance transactions, sale and leaseback transactions, office/industrial leasing and foreclosures. Key workstreams include matters concerning hotel developments, shopping centres, offices and residential apartment complexes. Vassilis D Avramopoulos co-heads the practice with Yanna N Antonopoulou. (European Legal 500, 2022 ed.).

Avramopoulos & Partners demonstrates excellence in the full array of contentious and advisory employment law matters. The department is headed by Athanassios Avgeros and includes Yanna Antonopoulou, who excels in advising on group restructurings and reorganisations, employee contract and benefit matters, and terminations. Other keystones of the workload include collective bargaining agreements, social security issues, EU regulation compliance, stock option plans and other incentives, and health and safety matters, in addition to disputes before the labour authorities, labour boards and courts. (European Legal 500, 2021 ed.).

Avramopoulos & Partners is home to ‘indisputable knowledge of complex real estate transactions’. Its varied real estate workload spans sales and acquisitions involving office, residential, apartment complex and retail assets, industrial and office property leasing and complex developments, in addition to finance, joint venture and restructuring matters. On the construction front, areas of prowess include management, project development, and architect and supply agreements, along with bidding document preparation. Practice heads Vassilis Avramopoulos and Yanna Antonopoulou are both highly experienced when it comes to hotel, leisure and resort-related projects. (European Legal 500, 2021 ed.).

Key clients of Avramopoulos & Partners include Diamond Resorts International and RCI (Resort Condominiums International). Among its team of “efficient legal experts”, Vassilis Avramopoulos is “a strategic thinker” noted for his “tactical excellence and an innovative approach”, and Yanna Antonopoulou is “experienced”. (European Legal 500, 2016 ed.). 
 
Vassilis Avramopoulos’ team at Avramopoulos & Partners Law Firm provides “an excellent legal service”. Highlights included advising Oakes Capital on the purchase of hotels and resorts in the Greek islands of Mykonos and Santorini. Yanna Antonopoulou is “a trusted and valued business partner” for real estate and tourism matters. (European Legal 500, 2015 ed.). 
 
Clients praise Avramopoulos & Partners Law Firm’s “professionalism, timeliness and quality”, with Vassilis Avramopoulos and Yianna Antonopoulou recommended for their “significant technical tax knowledge”.   The group has been providing advise on tax structuring  and VAT issues  to  clients  such  as  Affichage  Holdings  and  Club  Greece  Resorts.  (Tax  Directors Handbook, 2011 ed.)  
  
Clients praise Avramopoulos & Partners Law Firm’s ‘professionalism, timeliness and quality’, with Vassilis Avramopoulos and Yianna Antonopoulou recommended for their significant technical tax knowledge’.  The group has been providing advice on tax structuring and VAT issues to clients such as Affichage Holdings and Club Greece Resorts. (European Legal 500, 2010 ed.)