Partners George Bersis, Vassilis Stergiou and Theologos Mintzas, assisted by Associates Ioanna Kefaloniti and Dimitra Androulakaki, successfully advised a major international concrete company in the acquisition of a quarry and two RMC plants in Attica, Greece. Our team provided legal support in the complex due diligence exercise as well as throughout the negotiations and the execution of this challenging transaction.

POTAMITISVEKRIS acted as local advisor of a Greek leading company in the Telecommunications sector, to a complex corporate transformation and specifically, to the partial demerger of the sector of fiber optics and the creation of a new company, that will be an accelerator of investments in new generation networks and will contribute substantially to the shaping of the new digital page of Greece.
The POTAMITISVEKRIS team was led by Partners Alexandros Kortesis and Stathis Potamitis and supported by Senior Associates Alexia Tzouni and Christina Varveri, as well as by Palmyra Chantzara (Associate) and Olga Bezantakou (Junior Associate).

POTAMITISVEKRIS has advised a Greek REIC on the acquisition of a retail park under development, located in Neo Faliro, Attica.
The transaction was led by George Bersis, POTAMITISVEKRIS Co-Managing Partner, and Amalia Balla, Real Estate Senior Associate.

POTAMITISVEKRIS has advised a Greek REIC on the acquisition of a company owning and operating one of the biggest retail parks in Greece, located in Pylaia Thessaloniki.
George Bersis, Co-Managing Partner and Amalia Balla, Senior Associate, successfully led the Real Estate team of this project.

We are delighted to announce that the Athens Bankruptcy Court ratified the rehabilitation agreement (involving more than €0.5 billion debt) between our client, a widely known listed entity –parent of a multinational group of jewelry and fashion companies– and a group of international creditors. In the context of the restructuring, our team successfully represented the client in the first litigation for the appointment of a special proxy substituting the shareholders in the company’s GA for the approval of the restructuring. POTAMITISVEKRIS’ team was led by Stathis Potamitis, Head of Restructuring & Insolvency, and Konstantinos Papadiamantis, Head of Litigation, supported by Eleana Baya (Senior Associate), Catherine Androulaki (Senior Associate), Konstantinos Rachianiotis (Associate), and Evangelia Natsi (Junior Associate).

Dimitris Loukas and team advises a major network airline based in Greece, as well as in relation to ensuring Court proceeding to the European Commission’s approval of a State support measure in the form of a direct grant to compensate the airline for damages directly caused by the COVID-19 outbreak and the travel restrictions imposed by Greece and other destination countries to contain it.

We are delighted to announce that last week, the agreement for the sale of the share capital of Depa Infrastructure SA to Italgas S.p.A, one of the leading gas distributors in Italy and the third largest market player in Europe has been signed, marking a significant milestone towards the completion of this landmark privatization in the energy sector.

POTAMITISVEKRIS’ Corporate and M&A team led by Managing Partner Stathis Potamitis and Senior Associate Maria Perifanou, supported by Alexia Tzouni (Senior Associate), Palmyra Chantzara (Associate), as well as by Dimitra Rachouti (Senior Associate) and Kostas Manikas (Associate) led by Dimitris Loukas (Head of our EU, Competition & Antitrust team) assisted the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) throughout this highly demanding tender process, which is now successfully heading towards its completion.

POTAMITISVEKRIS acted as legal advisor to the issuance advisor, joint coordinators and bookrunners for the public offering of €300m senior sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) listed on ATHEX issued by GEK TERNA S.A.

The POTAMITISVEKRIS team was led by Managing Partner, Stathis Potamitis and supported by senior associates: Elena Theocharakou and Eleanna Baya