Ioannis Charalampopoulos
Senior Associate
Machas & Partners Law Firm 


Ioannis Charalampopoulos specializes in Corporate and Financial law and advises in a wide range of corporate and finance transactions across various industries and sectors including real estate and hospitality as well as technology and energy. His expertise includes public and private M&As, disposals, demergers, joint-ventures and corporate restructurings, with a particular focus on complex cross-border transactions, as well as project development and project finance transactions concerning renewables. Ioannis has also a particular interest in the ecosystem of innovative start-ups and collective investment schemes and provides comprehensive legal advice in the structuring of venture capital funds and other alternative investments funds including real estate investment companies. 

Ioannis provides the firm’s clients with on-going legal advice on operational, organizational and investment matters, including the structuring of cross border corporate structures, trust funds and similar legal arrangements as well as the negotiation of bespoke shareholders and commercial agreements. Ioannis advises clients in connection with the acquisition of projects in Greece, including entry and exit strategies, as well as schemes for the upstream flow of revenue to the investors.

As a member of the Machas & Partner Law Firm’s M&A practice, Ioannis Charalampopoulos is leading the on-going corporate transaction pertaining to the merger by absorption of Intercontinental International REIC by BriQ Properties REIC, which is expected to be completed in 2024 through a multi-phase transaction involving a leveraged real estate deal as well as the acquisition of a qualifying holding by the acquirer. 

Ioannis holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and a Master in Corporate Law & Corporate Finance Law (LL.M.) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and, a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Cambridge.