LCI Law

Partner

Marie has 20 years of experience in real estate, property law and urban planning, dealing with all kinds of real estate (private, commercial, hospitality, logistics and touristic) in numerous regions of Greece.

She has supported large multinational companies, as well as individuals, in the sale, purchase, renting and use of real estate.

Marie’s practice is buttressed by her vast experience in preparing and dealing with all kinds of property contracts and by her deep understanding of the real estate industry. She represents key stakeholders and market players, providing legal support in relation to spatial and urban planning, as well as in relation to the obtaining of the requisite environmental and other permission for the implementation of their property investments. She leads and manages projects relating to real estate property, mergers and acquisitions, energy, judicial and extra-judicial legal proceedings, public auctions and registration of securities such as mortgages and mortgage pre-notations. She also advises on the preferences of creditors in public auction proceedings as well as on the legal framework applying to real estate properties and the factors affecting their market value.

Marie also has longstanding experience in handling complex private and public projects with multiple stakeholders.

She also led the legal team which provided support to the Greek Ministry of Finance for the preparation and implementation of the Restructuring Directive in Greece.

Expertise Areas Real Estate Commercial & Advisory Recent Publications “From crowdfunding to crowdinvesting”, Capital.gr, October 2019. “The specificities of the construction coefficient transfer”, Law Journal of Properties, v.4/2019, Publications Sakkoulas, December 2019. “Timesharing, an unused tool from the past…”, Journal Ethnos of Sunday, January 2020. “The levy in cash in favor of local Authorities on real estate properties within industrial areas”, Law Review Law and Environment, Publications Nomiki Bibliothiki, July 2020. “Growth in Natura 2000 areas: paradox or a necessary condition for sustainability?”, Fortune Greece, August 2020. “The new law on modernization of Spatial an Urban Panning Legislation”, Interview in Lawyer Magazine, January 2021. “The new Taxonomy Regulation and Investments in Real Estate”. Lawyer Magazine, July 2021. Recent Experiences Oscar Hotel - Representing an investment fund in the purchase of a three-star hotel in the center of Athens. Toi & Moi Project - Representing a foreign investment fund in the purchase of two Office Buildings of EUR9 million. The Hellinikon Project - Drafting and designing contractual documentation for a high-profile developer. Sounio Project - Successfully acting for defendants before the Cadastral Committee relating to ownership contestation because of forest characterization of land plots. Tinos Project - Providing legal advice to French investors regarding the implementation of a Complex Touristic Accommodation in out of urban zone land plots.

Marie is fluent in Greek and French and has a professional working proficiency in English.

Marie was admitted as a Greek lawyer to the Athens Bar in 2003 and is admitted before Supreme Court of Greece.

She is member of the Hellenic-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well as of the Hellenic-Dutch Association of Commerce and Industry.

Master of Advances Studies (MAS), in European Law (option “Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law”), Universite Paul Cezanne III, Aix-en-Provence, France. Degree in Law (LL.B), option Commercial Law, Universite Paul Cezanne III, Aix-en-Provence, France.