Nikolaos Koulocheris is the Co-Founding Partner of Machas & Partners Law Firm and Head of the Real Estate team.
Nikolaos is a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1998 and he is liscensed to practice law before the Supreme Court of Greece since 2008. Prior to his appointment as the Secretary General of Economic Policy, he had been Managing Partner at Machas & Partners Law Firm, specializing in civil and labor law, real estate, privatizations, and public procurement. He has extensive professional experience in some of the most high-profile real estate acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, financing, and restructuring projects for foreign investors in Greece and has successfully managed major real estate projects as chief legal adviser, such as the Ellinikon – Agios Kosmas privatization project (2019 -2021) acting for the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund.
Nikolaos served as Secretary General of Economic Policy in the Ministry of Finance of Greece from August 2021 to July 2023 and, ex officio, as the Chairman of the Government Committee on the strategy for the prevention and suppression of money laundering, terrorist financing (AML/CFT) and the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. His areas of responsibilities included State Aid, privatizations, and State-Owned Enterprises, as well as issues relating to Financial Policy, macroeconomic forecasts, International Relations, the valuation and determination of property values and Public Assistance. He was a leading contributor to the reform of the corporate governance of State-Owned Enterprises.