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World-class deals punctuated with global insight of a skilled legal team.

Our Mergers & Acquisitions team of lawyers has established a leadership position in the market by aligning an excellent standard of legal services with the corporate commitment to tap opportunities beyond borders toward global betterment and growth. Our expansion has been based on the forging of strong long lasting client relationships and the recruitment of high caliber lawyers with stellar academic backgrounds, with strong emphasis on providing clients with high quality, effective, practical, and value-adding solutions.

We have the expertise and experience to manage complex cross border transactions and investments that require ingenuity, business acumen and integrated legal solutions enabling our clients to meet their goals. Our clients include a broad spectrum of public and private organizations, governmental entities, and individual investors in every type of M&A situation.We are known for being an unconventional and progressive thinking firm focusing on the needs of our commercial and private clients across a number of industry sectors including most importantly:

  • Technology & Innovation | Media & Telecommunications (AI, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing)
  • Real Estate
  • Tourism & Hospitality (Hotels | Food & Beverage)
  • Education
  • Energy
  • Financial Services
  • Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare

Our forward-thinking team is focused on optimizing your transaction processes. We offer in­depth knowledge across the sectors and provide seamless advice based on local expertise combined with business acumen and skilled transactional know-how.

Our Corporate & M&A practice has led to numerous outward and inward investment transactions, privatizations, domestic and cross-border reorganizations, acquisitions or other corporate transactions. Our Corporate & M&A practice has extensive experience in:

    • Domestic and cross-border M&A transactions including capital markets transactions (mergers of listed and regulated entities, public acquisitions, tender offers, IPOs or secondary offerings etc.). We have handled numerous cross border private acquisitions of enterprises with particular focus in the industries of real estate and tourism and negotiated share purchase agreements with extensive representations and warranties based on the findings of full scope due diligences as well as with conditions precedent and/or closing conditions involving the use of either completion accounts or locked box mechanism.
    • Privatizations. We have acted as legal counsel of a governmental entity in the most significant and complex privatization in modern Greece’s history (concerning the sector of real estate and infrastructure) and have acquired the necessary knowledge and expertise to advise on any privatization.
    • Formation of alternative investment funds and regulated entities with particular focus on alternative investment funds management companies, investment firms and REICs.
    • Cross-border holding restructurings. We are advising clients in the setting up of complex cross-border holding structures and schemes to enhance the performance and optimize the oversight and management of their portfolios through corporate transactions (private acquisitions, demergers, mergers, reverse takeovers of private companies etc.).
    • Restructuring of indirect participations. We are advising clients in the restructuring of their indirect participations to direct holdings in enterprises through corporate transactions as well as trust deeds.
    • Project Development Acquisitions. We are continuously negotiating agreements relating to the acquisition of entities as part of broader arrangements (addressed in the documentation via conditions precent, conditions subsequent or other post completion undertakings) for the project development and project finance of underlying projects with particular focus on the energy sector (including PV plans as well as on-shore and off-shore wind farms). We have experience in providing legal advises regarding the segregation of sectors of activity and/or lines of businesses especially as transaction preceding a project development acquisition.
    • Joint Venture Arrangements. We are knowledgeable in the structuring of corporate transactions (mainly in the form of private acquisitions) for the common exploitation of enterprises with pooled resources and expertise of multiple parties.
    • Real Estate Acquisitions. We have extensive experience in direct, outright asset deals as well as in the acquisition of real estate companies as going concern entities.

 

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