George has over 25 years of experience in safeguarding his clients’ interests in the disputes which arise in the course of their business activities. His broad perspective includes the application of judicial and alternative resolution methods to get results for his clients in construction, labor, consortium, infrastructure, intellectual and industrial property and insolvency related disputes. In the area of real estate, George’s practice spans advising on acquisition, construction, development and operation issues on behalf of market participants from the infrastructure, hospitality, tourism, construction, real estate finance and development industries.
George is an Accredited CiArb Mediator as well as Trainer with CEDR and has taught Mediation Training Programs and Seminars. He also works pro bono with the Hellenic Mediators’ Centre as a trainer in Seminars on Mediation.
2007 Partner, Papapolitis & Papapolitis
2001 – 2007 Partner, C. Alexiou and Partners
1991 – 2001 Associate, C. Alexiou and Partners
Supreme Court of Greece
Court of Appeals
Athens Bar
Accredited Mediator, The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London, UK
Mediators Trainer, CEDR, London, UK
PhD Candidate in Mediation Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
LLM in Corporate, Labour and Civil Procedure Law (Merit), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
LLB (Merit), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Member of the Mediators Panel of the Hellenic-German Chamber of Commerce
Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
Director and Partner of the Hellenic Mediation and Arbitration Centre
Founding Member and Ex-Vice President of the Hellenic Mediators’ Association
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Mediation in Greece, published in CEE Legal Matters Magazine, 2014
The Mediation Clause, DAE and EPE Review, 2012
Mediation and Banks, DAE & EPE Review, 2010
Bad Business Loans at the Association of Limited Companies and Partnerships, 2015
The Mediation Clause at the Athens Law Society Conference on Arbitration and Mediation: Alternative Methods of Resolving Disputes, 2014
Mediation and Businesses at the European Programme Mediation Europe-Eirene Project, 2014
Ethics in Mediation at the Mediation and Judicial Mediation Conference of the Association of Greek Law Firms under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice, 2014
Practical Issues Arsing from Public Procurement of Goods and Services at the Association of Limited Companies and Partnerships, 2013 and 2014
- December 2018 TELECOMMUNICATION DISPUTE
- January 2019 AROMKA SA DISPUTE AGAINST MAJOR COSMETICS ORGANIZATIONS
- January 2016 Intracom / Teledome Dispute
- January 2016 Lamda Development Construction Dispute
- January 2016 Philips Greece on Ongoing Corporate Governance Matters
- April 2014 Intracom Holdings in its €47 Million Sale of Intracom Telecom
- March 2014 BlackRock Solutions in its Diagnostic Assessment of the Greek Banking System
- January 2014 Intralot Group in €150 Million Dispute with Glory Technology Limited
- January 2014 Louis Dreyfus in Dispute with the Agricultural Bank of Greece
- November 2013 The Dogus Group in the Acquisition of the Astir Palace Hotel
- January 2013 Philips Hellas in €15 Million Debt Retrieval