Dimitrios Christopoulos Managing Partner D.C. CHRISTOPOULOS & PARTNERS LAW FIRM Dimitri Christopoulos is the founding and managing partner of D. C. Christopoulos Law Firm, located in Athens, Greece. 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. 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 has also established a specialization in advising on company formation and wealth management, 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. He has represented a number of clients in their bids in tenders for telecommunications licenses, but also in the transport sector. He has served as member of the Board of Directors of the Franchise Association of Greece in 1997 and he still is a Board member in multiple companies of food, press, energy, real estate, financial services and sports. He is admitted to the Athens Bar Association since 1994. Having graduated from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 1990, he attended the University de Bordeaux, from which he obtained a DEA de droit Public & Fiscal in 1992. He has also obtained a LLM diploma in business law from the law university of California at Berkeley in 1993. Since 2016, he teaches at National School of Judges in Greece. 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. He often participates as speaker in conferences worldwide.