Amalia is a member of the Banking, Corporate, M&A, Finance and Capital Markets group. Her areas of practice include a broad range of transactional services, as well as arbitration. She has made significant contributions in various finance and corporate transactions.
In the realm of project finance transactions, Amalia has assisted in structuring and securing funding for significant business initiatives.
Her experience also extends to securitizations, where she has navigated complex financial structures, including involvement in Hercules Asset Protection Scheme transactions. Additionally, she participated in the teams that worked on the public issuance of covered bonds and updated covered bond programs to meet evolving European regulatory standards.
In the realm of M&As, she has actively participated in due diligence processes, conducting thorough reviews of documents, identifying risks, and providing valuable recommendations on transaction structures to optimize client benefits and minimize client risks.
POTAMITISVEKRIS advised UniCredit in relation to its acquisition of 9% of the shares of Alpha Services and Holdings S.A. from the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF)
We are delighted to announce that we advised UniCredit S.p.A. in relation to its acquisition of 9% of the shares of Alpha Services and Holdings S.A. (Alpha), 100% parent of Alpha Bank S.A., from the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) and the conclusion of a binding term sheet for the conclusion of a strategic partnership regarding the merger of the respective subsidiaries of the two banks in Romania, the acquisition of 51% of the shares in Alpha Life by UniCredit and the commercial partnership in the distribution of UniCredit bancassurance, asset management and other banking products by Alpha Bank.
This seminal transaction is extremely important for the Greek banking sector and the wider Greek economy because it constitutes the second successful divestment of HFSF from a Greek systemic bank signifying a major step to the return of the Greek banking sector to full private ownership and the first investment of a major international bank in a Greek bank after the financial crisis, which is seen as a vote of confidence in the Greek economy.
Partner Alexander Metallinos assisted by associate Amalia Giannakopoulou advised UniCredit.
Admissions
Athens, 2023
Languages
Greek
English
French
Education
University of Chicago, LLM in Banking, Finance, Corporate and Securities Law (Hons.), 2022 (A. Gazis Trust Scholarship Award)
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, LLB (Valedictorian), 2021
The American College of Greece, Minor in Finance (Hons.), 2021 (SNF Scholarship Award)
Harvard University, Course on Deductive Logic, 2021 (Latsis/ACG Scholarship Award)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Course in International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration (Hons.), 2018