Eleftheria Christianopoulou

Dr Eleftheria Christianopoulou was born on 17.10.1972, in Drama, Greece. Since 1997, she is a member of the Thessaloniki Bar Association. Since 2013, she has a permission to attend the Supreme Court of Greece. She has extensive experience in advising banks and large corporates in issues related to civil, commercial and bank law, public contracts and all aspects of restructuring.

She speaks fluent English and French. She can read German.

Dr Eleftheria Christianopoulou has a two year teaching experience in Higher Education and has taught the following modules at the School of Law of the University of Nicosia, Cyprus: Law of obligations/Tort Law, Inheritance Law, Synthesis of Civil and Civil Procedural Law (Civil Law), Consumer Protection Law, Banking Law (in English).

At the York Europe Campus Law School, she teaches the modules “Law of Obligations II”, “Principles of English Law of Contracts”, “Principles of English Law of Torts” and “Modern Types of Contracts and Specific Sections of Contract Law” as part of the undergraduate program entitled “Greek Law with Common Law” and the module “Contracts of Modern Economy and Formation of Contracts” as part of the postgraduate program entitled “LLM in Business Law”.

Her research interests are particularly focused on Law of obligations and Tort Law, Consumer Protection Law, the special legislative regime of State Guarantees and Banking Law.
She is a member of the Association of Civil Lawyers (www.enas.gr) and of the Northern Greece Lawyers’ Company (www.enobe.org.gr).

A. Monographs

1. Bank financing of enterprises (civil law issues related to state guarantees), ed. Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2015, 2nd ed. 2018
2. The seller’s liability for lack of conformity (liability for defective performance), ed. Nomiki Bibliothiki, 2010

B. Selected Articles in Law Reviews or Chapters in Books

1. Forfeiture of the State guarantee: the State’s claims against the other guarantors, commentary on the Supreme Court decision 828/2025, which has been accepted and under publication in the legal journal “Ellikidi Dikaiosini”
2. Change of the lender and guarantee (contractual assignment of claims and the liability of the guarantor), in Honorary Volume to Professor Gianna Karybali-Tsiptsiou (collective work), ed. Sakkoula, Athens – Thessaloniki, pp 1961 et. seq.
3. Precedence of the arbitration clause over a subsequent choice of court clause, based on the applicable law and the interpretation of related contracts (opinion carried out jointly with prof. in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Law School, Evangelos Vassilakakis, in E.Vassilakakis, Arbitration studies, ed. Sakkoula, Athens-Thessaloniki, 2021, p. 61 et seq., also published in the legal journal “Ellikidi Dikaiosini” 2/2023, pp 64 et seq.
4. Nicolaos Leontis (ed.), “Sholiasmenos Astikos Kodikas” (Commented Civil Code), Athens, 2020
5. State guarantee for the Bank financing of enterprises, legal journal “Synigoros”, 2018 pp. 36 et seq.
6. Guarantee and settlement of bank debts, legal journal “Efarmoges Astikou Dikaiou kai Politikis Dikonomias”, 2018, pp. 1 et seq.
7. The statutory auditor’s civil liability to the audited company and third parties, Journal “Epixeirisi”, 2016, pp. 945 et seq.
8. El.Kastritsios (ed.), “Enstaseis kata ton Astiko Codica” (Exceptions under the Greek Civil Code), 2011 and 2nd ed. 2019
9. Ar.Chiotelis (ed.), “Diagrammata Eidikon Astikon Nomon” (Diagrams of Specific Civil Laws), Athens, 2015
10. M.Georgiadou (ed.), “Efarmoges Eidikon Astikon Nomon” (Applications of Specific Civil Laws), Athens, 2015