Alia Komioti

Alia advises a wide range of large international corporates in their day-to-day legal needs in Greece, including Goodyear Tires, Procter and Gamble, Dow Chemical, Whirlpool, Miele, Hilti, Heineken and Sony, as well as many leading Greek entities. She also advises companies on the most effective ways to incorporate in Greece, including setting up a Greek branch for Space X Technologies.

Alia has advised clients including DEPA, Sony Music and Whirlpool on complex restructurings, using a wide range of strategies including share transfers and mergers by absorption. She continues to advise Cardlink, the leading payment systems operator in Greece, in various commercial matters, and has acted as legal advisor to the recently opened Grand Hyatt, which is one of the largest hotels in Athens and is owned and operated by US real estate fund Hines, a global leader in real estate development.

Notable Corporate cases

• Advising Google on all its operations in Greece under the regulatory legal framework.
• Advising Sony Music on its group restructuring through intragroup share transfer transactions and subsequent mergers by absorption of EMI Greek subsidiaries by Sony.
• Advised Quest Holdings on a due diligence report on a company active in the renewable energy market.
• Advising on the privatization process of DEPΑ the public gas corporation run by the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund.
• Advising DEPA on the major corporate restructuring of the group by the splitting of the company in two separate entities followed by a series of mergers.
• Advising Whirlpool on Indesit Greece business transfer agreement and the subsequent merger by absorption of Indesit Greece by Whirlpool Hellas.
• Completed the due diligence on BriQ, a REIC, to be listed on the Athens Stock exchange for the purposes of the prospectus to be filed with the Hellenic Capital Markets Commission for the listing of the shares. We acted for Eurobank on this matter.
• Advising on the corporate restructuring through the absorption of two local EMI entities by Sony Music.
• Advising on the incorporation of Greek branch for Space X Technologies.
• Retained by Hliti AG for corporate maintenance work on the Greek affiliate.
• Advised on the global restructuring of Sealed Air Corp.
• Advised Japanese conglomerate Toppan printing Inc. in the public procurement and installation of a printing system for the issuance of Greek Passports and citizens IDs for the Hellenic Police Headquarters.
• Advised on the global corporate restructuring of Swedish company Oriflame Cosmetics.
• Advised on the corporate restructuring of Hewlett Packard.
• Advised on the supply-chain restructuring of the business of Diversey Inc. a provider of commercial cleaning sanitation and hygiene solutions for businesses.