Clients Say “A brilliant lawyer, but an even better service provider” Steve Popoff’s longstanding corporate clients rely on him as their trusted legal advisor. Known for his prompt, pragmatic and cost-effective counsel, Steve approaches specific client challenges with a keen eye to his clients’ strategic and business concerns. His clients appreciate his attentive, accessible, and affable manner, and often comment on his ability to make them feel as if they are his only client. Steve’s transaction-oriented practice includes experience on numerous complex transactions including acting for multi-national companies in connection with mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, public take-over…
Corporate & Commercial Attorney
Stanford Graduate School of Business, U.S.A. Summer Institute for Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial and business administration program The University of Chicago Law School, U.S.A. Master of Laws (LL.M.), average grade point average of 180.55 out of 186, equivalent to High Honors (among the top 3.8%) Escola de Direito da Fundação Getúlio Vargas – FGV, São Paulo Specialization in Economics and Corporate Law Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo Bachelor’s Degree in Law Membership officer for South America of the Insolvency Section of the International Bar Association (IBA) Vice President of the Board of Officers of Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein
Partner responsible for the Corporate Area of the Firm. He has actively participated in the legal advisory of different national and foreign companies in what he sees to corporate, commercial and financial operations in general. Provides advice to various companies in mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructuring, industrial property, foreign trade, trusts, joint & ventures and real estate transactions. PROFESSIONAL STUDIES: Attorney at Law and Notary Public. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: • DE LA CALLE, CAMPERO, TELLAECHE & ARRANGOIZ, S.C., Querétaro, Qro. (1997) Paralegal • CONTADURÍA MAYOR DE HACIENDA DEL CONGRESO DEL ESTADO DE QUERÉTARO (governmental entity created by the local house of Congress)…
Nicos G. Papaefstathiou is the Managing Partner of the firm and has a wide scope of expertise across numerous legal practice area. According to Chambers and Partners “Clients, impressed with his experience in dispute resolution matters, say "he gives us confidence that the cases will be resolved with the best possible outcome." He was president of the Union of Balkan Bar Associations between 2004 and 2006, and since 2015, he has been the president of the Accountants’ Disciplinary Board. He also remains a member of the Tassos Papadopoulos Centre for Studies (since 2010), and the Co-ordinating Body against Corruption. In…
James has been advising numbers of US, European, Australian and Asian companies investing in China by way of setting up RO (Representative Office), JV (Joint Venture), WOFE (Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise) or merger and acquisition with Chinese companies. With 20 years of legal experience, James is expertise in advising clients on commercial and corporate matters, James currently is the legal counsel to numbers of foreign-invested companies, including Nestle Guangzhou, Swire Guangdong Coca-Cola，Tyco International, Tupperware China, Coface China, Candy China, Taly China, etc. James has been involved in a number of large-scale assignments involving cross-border liquidation and restructuring, include GITIC and…