Ioannis Alexopoulos

Practice Areas

Ioannis has extensive experience representing clients in high-value and complex matters, whether pursuant to institutional rules or in ad hoc proceedings. His specialisms include commercial and business disputes with an emphasis on joint venture and shareholder disputes, shareholder protection, business break-ups, fraud, and project disputes.

Ioannis has particular expertise across various sectors including financial services, energy/oil and gas, international trade, mining and natural resources, telecoms, and IT. His key geographies are Greece, the Balkans, Russia and Central Asia, with additional exposure in the Middle East, Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa.

Ioannis has extensive expertise representing clients in arbitrations under ICC and LCIA rules, as well as others including SCC and UNCITRAL. His cases often involve an international element, usually with competing multiple jurisdictions and laws. Clients include banks or their clients, insurers, intermediaries, venture capitalists and equity investors, and large corporates in England and internationally. Ioannis also advises in connection with investor state disputes.

Career

Associate Holman Fenwick Willan 1990; Partner DLA Piper 1998; Partner Bryan Cave 2015; Partner Signature Litigation 2016.

Professional Memberships

London Solicitors Litigation Association; International Bar Association; Lex Anglo-Brasil and Comitê Brasileiro de Arbitragem (CBAr).

Personal

Ioannis is fluent in both English and Greek, as well as conversational Portuguese.