Rita Papadopoulou
Banking, Finance (including Investment funds, Islamic Finance and Private Equity), Capital Markets, Structured Products, Project Finance, Energy
LLM in Banking and Finance, Queen Mary University – London School of Economics, London
LLM in Private International Law and EU Law, University of Athens, Athens
LLB (Hons) Law, University of Athens, Athens
Author of The Asset Management Review, 8th Edition, for Lebanon, published by The Law Reviews and edited by Slaughter and May, UK.
Co-author of the Lebanon Chapter of IFLR's Mifid II Implementation Report 2018.
Law Society of England and Wales
Athens Bar Association
International Bar Association
Rita Papadopoulou is a partner (English Solicitor) at Abou Jaoude & Associates Law Firm and heads the Capital Markets and Structured Products practice. Before joining AJA, Rita pursued an over decade-long distinguished career in London as a structured finance and derivatives lawyer, working with leading top tier global investment banks, such as JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, as well as with the leading global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.
Rita's broad practice combines both transactional and advisory expertise and includes structured derivatives, capital markets and securities, structured finance, Islamic finance, private equity, funds, derivatives regulation and banking regulation. She has been integral in many award-winning innovative multibillion finance deals, with an emphasis on the emerging markets, representing a broad range of global financial institutions and other clients on highly structured equity deals, finance-linked hedging, MTN restructurings and structured derivatives of all asset classes.
Rita has also previously served as a special adviser to the Greek Parliament with emphasis on financial markets and economics.
She is a leading lawyer with prominent global legal directories such as IFLR 1000 and a recommended lawyer with the prominent global legal directory Legal 500. Rita is also a keynote speaker at the Euromoney Lebanon conference and has regularly lectured at banking seminars.