Zepos & Yannopoulos has advised Bain Capital Credit on its acquisition of a non-performing corporate loan portfolio from the National Bank of Greece.

Zepos & Yannopoulos has advised Alpha Bank on Project Galaxy, which it describes as "the second largest NPE securitization in Europe."

Stamatis Drakakakis, Partner and Head of Antitrust & Competition practice at Zepos & Yannopoulos, has been appointed to the firm’s Executive Committee.

Zepos & Yannopoulos has advised BrookLane Capital on acquisition financing and a long term financing arrangement with Alpha Bank as part of a broader leveraged buyout deal of Alpha subsidiary Alpha Investment Properties II. AKL and the Lambadarios Law Firm advised the Alpha Bank.

Zepos & Yannopoulos has advised the Intrum Group on Project Iris -- the acquisition made as part of joint venture with the EBRD of an unsecured non-performing exposure portfolio originated by Piraeus Bank, consisting of approximately 53,000 loans with total legal claims of about EUR 1.7 billion and a gross book value of EUR 0.7 billion. 

The Alexiou-Kosmopoulos Law Firm has changed its name to AKL and changed its leadership, with Alexandros Kosmopoulos and Helen Alexiou having been elected joint Managing Partners.

KLC has advised SRH Marine SAIT on its agreement with Tototheo Maritime to form a new jointly-owned company, MAR360. 

The COVID-19 crisis that has afflicted Europe throughout this unusual year has necessitated significant changes to the way lawyers work and communicate with and serve their clients. To find out how these changes played out in Greece, we spoke with Yanos Gramatidis, Head of Government & Privatization, and Betty Smyrniou, Head of Labor and Social Benefits and Aviation at Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners.

Former Norton Rose Fulbright Partner Dimitris Assimakis and Senior Associate Minas Kitsilis have joined Reed Smith's Global Corporate Group.

Grace Katsoulis has made Partner at Ballas, Pelecanos & Associates in Athens and has assumed responsibility for the firm’s Company and Employment practice.

Bernitsas has acted as local advisor to Piraeus Bank on the public NPE securitization in Greece. Moratis Passas and Orrick advised sole arranger UBS Europe SE on the deal.

Kinstellar has advised Austria's KA Finanz on the sale of a Greek municipal loan portfolio to Piraeus Bank.

Greece's Koutalidis law firm has been appointed by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Ministry of Development and Investments of Greece as the advisor on the tender for the Politeia Innovation Center project.

Kyriakides Georgopoulos has advised the China-CEE Fund II, represented by CEE Equity Partners, in its EUR 28 million acquisition of ATHEX-listed Paperpack SA. Potamitis Vekris advised Ioannis Tsoukarides and his family, the controlling shareholders of Paperpack.

Clifford Chance’s Prague office has helped the Sazka Group obtain a EUR 640 million senior secured loan. Allen & Overy advised the unidentified lenders on the deal, along with, reportedly, the Bernitsas Law Firm in Greece, Georgiades & Pelides in Cyprus, and CMS Reich Rohrwig Hainz in Austria.

Over the course of our seven years, CEE Legal Matters has interviewed most of the British lawyers working on the ground in Central and Eastern Europe as part of our recurring “Expat on the Market” feature. We reached out to them recently and asked them to bring us up to speed on what they’re doing and/or share their thoughts on the ramifications of Brexit or the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

Bernitsas Law has advised CVC on the acquisition of a controlling stake in Vivartia Holdings SA. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2021.

Anagnostopoulos has successfully defended former Siemens executive Dionysios Dendrinos in a criminal case regarding alleged bribery and money laundering.