Katerina Marini

Katerina Marini is the founder and managing director of Katerina Marini and Associates Law Firm, an Athens practice recognised as winner of the Real Estate Litigation Law Firm of the Year in Greece award at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. Heading a multi-disciplinary team, she leads a full-service firm in which real estate stands out as a core strength, encompassing both the transactional side of property work and the disputes that arise from it.

Founded two decades ago, the firm has grown to around fourteen partners and associates and offers broad coverage of Greek law. Its practice areas include real estate sales and rentals, property expropriations, urban planning law, commercial and corporate law, banking law, administrative and tax law, inheritance law, energy law and debt restructuring. This combination positions the firm to handle the full range of issues that surround real property in Greece, from acquisition and leasing through to contested matters before the courts and administrative authorities. Expropriations and urban planning disputes in particular place the firm squarely within the field of real estate litigation, where questions of ownership, compensation and land use are resolved.

The firm has developed a distinctive specialisation in advising foreign real estate investors, and reports having secured more than two hundred residence permits for such investors since the relevant programme was introduced. This work connects the firm's property practice to immigration and corporate law, and reflects a client base that includes overseas buyers as well as domestic clients. For investors, the ability to resolve disputes over title, contracts and planning is an essential complement to the transactional advice that accompanies a property acquisition, and the firm's litigation capability supports clients when disagreements cannot be settled by negotiation alone.

Operating from offices on Vasilis Sofias Avenue in central Athens and in Acharnes, the firm describes its approach as an advanced one, working closely with clients to develop confident and effective solutions. In the real estate context this means combining a command of the substantive law of property, expropriation and planning with the procedural skill required to pursue and defend claims. Real estate litigation frequently involves competing interests, complex documentary evidence and the interaction of private rights with public regulation, and the firm's broad practice allows it to address these dimensions together.

Under Katerina Marini's leadership, the firm blends the personal engagement of a founder-led practice with the depth of a sizeable team, enabling it to manage significant property disputes alongside its transactional and advisory work. The recognition conferred by the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards affirms the firm's standing as a leading Greek adviser in the real estate field and highlights its capacity to protect clients' interests when property matters become contentious. It underscores, in particular, the firm's experience in serving an international as well as a domestic clientele, and the reputation that Marini has built since founding the practice.