A. & K. Metaxopoulos & Partners Law Firm

TMT, Real Estate, Civil

Marilena is a Salaried Partner and Head of Industrial Property Department and Real Estate Department. She works in A. & K. Metaxopoulos and Partners Law firm since 2004.

She specializes in registration of TMs, TM infringement, proceedings before the EUIPO and the Greek TM Authorities, litigation before the TM Courts, consulting on TM law, Patents, Utility Models, Designs, Civil law and Litigation, Real estate and Constructions law.

She speaks English (fluently) and Italian and contributes regularly on the developments of the Greek TM Law, to renounced magazines such as “World Trademark Review”, “Finance Monthly”, International Law Office, Lexology, etc.

She has been representing major Greek and foreign multinational entities in protecting their IP rights in Greece. In this framework, she has been very active in the legal “battle” against the so-called “pirated” and counterfeit goods. Her experience on this field allows her to cooperate effectively and fruitfully with the competent official Authorities and she has many times achieved to “clean” the market from pirated goods.

Being the head of Industrial Property Department and Real Estate Department in A. & K. Metaxopoulos & Partners Law Firm, Marilena Nikolaraki is the one to make decisions when it comes to IP rights enforcement and Real Estate/Construction Law.

Her experience enables her to decide the most appropriate way to protect and enforce the client’s industrial property rights, aiming to succeed immediate results depending on the circumstances of each case. She is also known to the Greek Authorities protecting IP rights and acting against illegal trading, the Officers of which value her opinion.

Finally, when it comes to Real Estate/Construction Law, she is the one to decide the most appropriate way to act, providing advice and guidance also to junior associates of A. & K. Metaxopoulos & Partners Law Firm.

Additionally, Marilena has been the winner of the award Trademark Lawyer of the Year, awarded by Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Women in Business Law Awards EMEA 2022, while she had been also shortlisted for the "Patent Lawyer of the Year" Award and recognized for 2023 as a Notable Practitioner by IP Stars (Managing IP).

Greek, English, Italian

Athens Bar Association

Marilena is a graduate of the Faculty of Law, Democritus University of Thrace (2003).