Lily Politsopoulou-Timageni is a partner of Timagenis Law Firm. Her practice includes corporate and shipping finance and she acts for shipowners and banks in respect of facility agreements and security documents, transfer of loans and security documents. Her practice also includes matters relating to shipbuilding contracts, charterparties (including in particular negotiations of long term timecharters and bareboat charters), agreements relating to sale and purchase of second hand or newbuilding ships, demolition of ships, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, corporate structure of shipping groups, establishment of Greek and foreign companies, establishment of office in Greece of foreign companies, advice on shipping related tax issues, sale and purchase of real estate and transfer of shipping property.
Lily Timageni has obtained the LL.B from the University of Athens Law School, an LL.M in European Law and an LL.M in Commercial Company Law both from University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and she was trained with a Paris based law office and the Bar Association in Paris. She was a lecturer at the Economic University of Athens in European law (1980-1990). Lily Timageni has obtained a Certificate in Maritime and Export Law, City of London Polytechnic and attended an intensive Seminar in International Financial Law at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford and a training program on European Community Law organised by Harvard Law School, as well as various conferences and colloquia of Comité Maritime International in Singapore 2001, Bordeaux 2003, Vancouver 2004, Cape Town 2006, Athens 2008, Hamburg 2014, Genoa 2017. Lily Timageni has graduated successfully the S.G.C. Shipping Seminars Program for 2017-2018 and has obtained the Shipbroker Gnosis Certificate in 2019.
Professional Affiliations/Admissions
Attorney-at-Law, Piraeus Bar, Greece (admitted 1977) – Qualified to practice before the Supreme Court
Languages
Greek, English, French, and has a good understanding of Spanish and German.
Lily Timageni is the author of various articles including “Registration of Ships in Greece” (Shipping Finance Annual 1995/1996 – Euromoney Publications); “Recent developments in Greek Shipping” (Shipping Finance Annual 2000/2001, Euromoney Publications).
