Ioannis Alexopoulos & Helena Nathanson—Bryan Cave

Bryan Cave LLP has recruited Ioannis Alexopoulos and Helena Nathanson as partners in the commercial litigation and financial services client service groups, respectively.

Ioannis has more than two decades of litigation, arbitration and mediation experience. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales and is fluent in English and Greek. Prior to joining Bryan Cave, Ioannis was a partner at DLA Piper, where he spent 16 years as a partner in the litigation and international arbitration group. He also served as head of the litigation, arbitration and regulatory group in London until 2007.

Helena’s practice focuses almost exclusively on the corporate trust, loan and agency side of structured finance transactions. She is admitted to practice in England and Wales and is fluent in English, Finnish, Swedish, French and German. She is an active participant of The International Capital Market Services Association (ICMSA). Prior to joining Bryan Cave, Helena was a partner at Reed Smith in the structured finance group.

“London is an enormously competitive market for partner-level talent and we are delighted that Ioannis and Helena have decided to join Bryan Cave in two key practice areas for the firm and this office,” says Carol Osborne, managing partner of the firm’s London office. “We are eager to grow the London office with experienced, entrepreneurial partners who are seeking a global platform and who are focused on the importance of relationships—with clients and with colleagues. Ioannis will increase our level of depth and experience in international dispute resolution and will complement our existing multinational team of lawyers. Helena’s leadership of our London corporate trust practice will allow us to build this important practice area in a coordinated fashion with our robust U.S. practice and will give us the right platform to represent our current corporate trust clients across the full spectrum of corporate trust work in the U.S. and in Europe.”