Banking & Finance

Koutalidis is established in the market as one of the leading Greek law firms in the field of banking and finance, being present in key, complex and demanding transactions in all areas of financial law, ranging from corporate finance, acquisition finance, asset or structured finance, bond loans, credit facilities, secured or unsecured, bilateral or syndicated, as well as OTC derivatives and related collateral arrangements to leveraged buy-outs, bank recapitalizations, NPL portfolio sales, securitizations as well as sovereign and corporate debt restructuring. We advise lenders and borrowers ranging from international and Greek credit and financial institutions to major domestic and multinational companies.

We advise on all aspects of project financing, including project structuring, project documents, finance documents, security package, legal due diligence and related competition, state aid, real estate and licensing matters. Our clientele comprises of all significant market participants, on the lenders’, sponsors’ and contractors’ side, as well as governmental institutions acting as tendering authorities.

The Head of our Banking and Finance Department is Nikos Koritsas. Ioannis Kaptanis heads the project finance practice, and Effie Papoutsi heads the corporate finance practice.