Christine Perakis
Attorney and Business Strategist
Strategic Navigation to Achieve Uncharted Business Success!
With over 22 years of experience as a business strategist, attorney and mentor, Christine Perakis is passionate about assisting individuals and enterprises in launching, sustaining and enlarging their businesses. As a business growth expert, Christine has guided her clients through expansions, in some cases by as much as 40% annual growth, positioning their businesses for sale at a good profit to the founders.
As a business strategist and attorney, Christine helps to create the structure and stability that new and expanding businesses need, providing the safety net business owners seek in achieving the success they desire. Christine is result-oriented, keeping her client’s focus on establishing concrete business strategies, achieving goals, and identifying and removing any obstacles that challenge their success along the way.
As a mentor, Christine works with individuals, guiding and facilitating them through a variety of business transitions. Whether from somewhat successful jobs to dream careers, or from solitary ideas to solid business ventures, her clients fulfill what they have always wanted for themselves professionally. She understands that people often have a concept of what they want, but can sometimes get fixated on a particular opportunity or outcome. Her counsel keeps them open-minded and continuously creating new prospects that surpass even what they had hoped for themselves.
Christine relishes the challenges of creating solid business foundations for growth, launching new products for worldwide distribution, developing marketing and PR campaigns, attracting media attention, and fundraising in the private sector. She also enjoys acquiring, expanding and managing real estate investments. As a partner in multiple enterprises, Christine Perakis contributes all of her expertise as a business advisor, attorney and mentor.
Over the years, her ventures have spanned the areas of alternative healthcare, innovative products, professional and competitive motor sports, and the music, film and television industries, just to name a few.
But first and foremost, Christine is a deal-maker who has been in the trenches, closing hundreds of millions of dollars in business transactions to achieve uncharted success for her clients. Her expertise is sought out not only as an attorney of more than 22 years, but as a business advisor, mentor, owner and entrepreneur in her own right.
Christine has started a variety of several successful ventures both on her own and with partners. In fact, some of these business opportunities have arisen out of a client’s desire to more broadly secure Christine’s talent in the management of a new or expanding company.
As an attorney, business executive, mentor and entrepreneur, she has worked intensively in the entertainment industry. She has been involved in the financing, production, distribution and sale of more than 100 motion picture projects and television series. Christine was instrumental in the start-up of the production division of a prominent financier-distributor, acting as production supervisor, production executive and business affairs executive for the venture during its first year.
Currently, in addition to her entertainment clients, Christine provides broad business advice to other entrepreneurs and start-up ventures.
She is experienced at conducting business overseas in tax haven countries and third world nations. She shares her business growth expertise with clients on multiple continents worldwide.
Christine is familiar with and accustomed to working with bank - as well as private-sector - financed enterprises, and balancing the unique sensitivities and interests of financiers with the needs and concerns of her clients.
Christine attended the University of Southern California Law School and Business School, graduating in the top 25% of her class with a joint Juris-doctor and Masters in Business degree with a specialty in Taxation.