Stella Lellos
Partner
Stella Lellos
Partner
Growing up in Europe with a family business in the hospitality industry, Stella gained early insight into what clients value in legal counsel. Fluent in several languages, she brings a global perspective to her practice. Stella is known for her “work backwards” approach—starting with the goal and building the most effective path to reach it.
Stella Lellos is a partner in Rivkin Radler’s Corporate Practice Group. Her practice focuses primarily on private company mergers and acquisitions, including strategic mergers, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, corporate finance transactions, and general corporate representation of U.S.-based and international companies. Stella’s clients range from private companies to private equity groups, to international public companies. She has experience in a breadth of industries including health care, consumer products, travel, construction, technology, manufacturing, distribution, retail, and hospitality.
In her general corporate practice, Stella regularly advises clients on structuring and implementing domestic and international joint ventures, as well as trademark and software licensing, executive employment and compensation issues, and corporate governance matters. Her extensive experience covers all forms of corporate agreements, including service agreements, employment and consulting agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, and licensing.
Internationally, Stella routinely represents domestic and international clients in the start-up and expansion of businesses across international lines, assisting foreign clients entering the U.S. market with the selection of appropriate business entities, ownership structures and tax implications, and advising domestic clients with overseas expansion, including working with local counsel to achieve optimal results. Her international experience extends to issues related to the importation and exportation of goods, joint ventures, acquisitions and divestitures, licensing, and other cross-border agreements.
Stella is a frequent speaker at the New York City Bar Association on topics related to the formation and use of limited liability companies, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate issues.
Stella is fluent in French, Greek and German and is admitted as a Solicitor in the courts of England and Wales.
Court Admissions
U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales
Education
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, J.D. cum laude
University of London, LL.M., in Banking and Finance Law
Keele University, England, LL.M., International, European and Comparative Law
News & Publications
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Corporate Transparency Act Obligations for U.S. Companies Are No More
March 27 | 2025 -
Lellos Featured in USLAW Cross-Border Transactions Video
March 19 | 2025 -
CTA: Clear Deadline, Unclear Future
February 20 | 2025
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