Speaker

Manos is the lead partner in our specialist Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice and Special Counsel strategic to our Foreign Direct Investment sectoral team, Corporate, M&A, and Antitrust & Competition practices. Manos is a leading authority in Greece in a variety of fields, including FDI, bankruptcy, corporate law, corporate transformations law and competition law. He is an associate professor at the University of Athens and a former senior legal advisor to the Greek Prime Minister, as well as former General Secretary of Public Property at the Greek Ministry of Finance, in charge of policies targeted to the identification, systematization, exploitation and protection of public property. He has been head of the legislative team having drafted Law 5024 /2023 establishing the right of owners possessing public land to acquire it, under specific conditions. He combines an academic’s knowledge of how law is conceived and refined with practical expertise in applying it in the largest deals and cases. Manos has enjoyed a long, diverse and distinguished career in law and brings to LLF a wealth of commercial, academic and government experience across a number of specialist areas. This multi-dimensional legal experience means that Manos has an unusually deep understanding of his fields that cuts across many of LLF’s practice areas and sectors. His expertise on large-scale State projects, including mining, energy, real estate, port infrastructure, financial services, and projects under Law 4864/2021 on Strategic Investments, which provides a range of finance, tax and licensing incentives for projects deemed to meet a threshold of national or regional importance.