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Provided by Catherine Karatzas
Practice Areas
Specialises in corporate and banking law. Acted as counsel to major Greek or international clients in the areas of capital markets, banking and M&A. Worked on almost all the major equity offerings, M&A and tender offers in Greece. She was awarded the pan-European award in the category of financial regulation in the International Financial Law Review Europe Women in Business Law awards in 2015.
Career
Associate with Shearman & Sterling in New York (1988-92). She has been with Karatzas & Partners since 1992 and she became Managing Partner in 1996.
Professional Memberships
Athens and New York Bar Associations.
Personal
LLM, Columbia University, New York. She speaks fluently Greek, English and French and has a working knowledge of Italian and Spanish.
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Our firm advised National Bank of Greece on the closing of Project Frontier II
We have advised National Bank of Greece on the closing of Project Frontier II, a multi-asset securitization of NPEs with a gross book value of c. €1 billion.
Our firm has advised National Bank of Greece
Our firm has advised National Bank of Greece in connection with the acquisition of a minority shareholding of 7,5% in EPSILON NET with the option to acquire a further 7,5% three years after completion of the initial transaction.
We have advised National Bank of Greece on the signing of Project Frontier II
We have advised National Bank of Greece on the signing of Project Frontier II, a multi-asset securitization of #NPEs with a gross book value of c. €1 billion. 95% of the Mezzanine and Junior notes will be sold to investment funds managed by Bracebridge Capital, LLC.
Our firm advised Power Factors on the acquisition of Inacess.
Our firm has advised, as to matters of Greek law, Power Factors a leader in renewable asset management software, on the acquisition of Inaccess.
Our firm has advised Austrian Post.
Our firm has advised Austrian Post AG in connection with the acquisition of an 80% stake in the Greek technology services provider Agile Actors and the strategic cooperation between them.
K&P advised NBG on the signing of agreement to form a Joint Venture partnership with EVO
K&P advised National Bank of Greece on the signing of a definitive agreement to form a Joint Venture partnership with EVO Payments, Inc., a leading payment technology and services provider for its Merchant Acquiring Business.
K&P advised HELPE Group in relation to its corporate transformation plan.
K&P advised HELLENIC PETROLEUM Group of Companies one of the leading energy groups in South East Europe, with activities spanning across the energy value chain and presence in 6 countries, in relation to its corporate transformation plan.
Karatzas & Partners acted as Greek legal counsel to National Bank of Greece
Karatzas & Partners acted as Greek legal counsel to National Bank of Greece (NBG) in relation to the divestment of 90.01% of NBG’s shares in Ethniki Insurance to CVC Capital Partners.
Karatzas & Partners acted as Greek legal advisor to Viohalco S.A.
Karatzas & Partners acted as Greek legal advisor to Viohalco S.A. (Viohalco) in connection with the accelerated bookbuild offering of 25 million shares, representing 6.66% of the total share capital of ElvalHalcor S.A. (ElvalHalcor).
K&P advised the consortium of international banks in connection with Piraeus Holdings
Karatzas & Partners advised the consortium of international banks in connection with Piraeus Holding’s €1.38bln capital raise
Karatzas & Partners advises National Bank of Greece
Karatzas & Partners advises National Bank of Greece
Karatzas &Partners advised SIDMA Steel S.A.
Our Firm advised SIDMA Steel, one of the leading Greek companies in the field of trading and industrial processing of steel products.
Karatzas &Partners advised National Bank of Greece
Karatzas &Partners advised National Bank of Greece with regards to the disposal of a portfolio of c. 2,800 non-performing, predominantly secured, corporate loans with total principal amount of c. €1.6 billion to the investment firm Bain Capital Credit.
Karatzas & Partners advises National Bank of Greece
Karatzas & Partners is pleased to announce that our firm advised National Bank of Greece with regards to the disposal of the first secured non-performing portfolio of small Business Lending and Small & Medium Enterprises loans with total principal amount of c. €0.9 billion (Project Symbol) to Symbol
Our firm advised National Bank of Greece on the closing of Project Frontier II
We have advised National Bank of Greece on the closing of Project Frontier II, a multi-asset securitization of NPEs with a gross book value of c. €1 billion.
Our firm has advised National Bank of Greece
Our firm has advised National Bank of Greece in connection with the acquisition of a minority shareholding of 7,5% in EPSILON NET with the option to acquire a further 7,5% three years after completion of the initial transaction.
We have advised National Bank of Greece on the signing of Project Frontier II
We have advised National Bank of Greece on the signing of Project Frontier II, a multi-asset securitization of #NPEs with a gross book value of c. €1 billion. 95% of the Mezzanine and Junior notes will be sold to investment funds managed by Bracebridge Capital, LLC.
Our firm advised Power Factors on the acquisition of Inacess.
Our firm has advised, as to matters of Greek law, Power Factors a leader in renewable asset management software, on the acquisition of Inaccess.
Our firm has advised Austrian Post.
Our firm has advised Austrian Post AG in connection with the acquisition of an 80% stake in the Greek technology services provider Agile Actors and the strategic cooperation between them.
K&P advised NBG on the signing of agreement to form a Joint Venture partnership with EVO
K&P advised National Bank of Greece on the signing of a definitive agreement to form a Joint Venture partnership with EVO Payments, Inc., a leading payment technology and services provider for its Merchant Acquiring Business.
K&P advised HELPE Group in relation to its corporate transformation plan.
K&P advised HELLENIC PETROLEUM Group of Companies one of the leading energy groups in South East Europe, with activities spanning across the energy value chain and presence in 6 countries, in relation to its corporate transformation plan.
Karatzas & Partners acted as Greek legal counsel to National Bank of Greece
Karatzas & Partners acted as Greek legal counsel to National Bank of Greece (NBG) in relation to the divestment of 90.01% of NBG’s shares in Ethniki Insurance to CVC Capital Partners.
Karatzas & Partners acted as Greek legal advisor to Viohalco S.A.
Karatzas & Partners acted as Greek legal advisor to Viohalco S.A. (Viohalco) in connection with the accelerated bookbuild offering of 25 million shares, representing 6.66% of the total share capital of ElvalHalcor S.A. (ElvalHalcor).
K&P advised the consortium of international banks in connection with Piraeus Holdings
Karatzas & Partners advised the consortium of international banks in connection with Piraeus Holding’s €1.38bln capital raise
Karatzas & Partners advises National Bank of Greece
Karatzas & Partners advises National Bank of Greece
Karatzas &Partners advised SIDMA Steel S.A.
Our Firm advised SIDMA Steel, one of the leading Greek companies in the field of trading and industrial processing of steel products.
Karatzas &Partners advised National Bank of Greece
Karatzas &Partners advised National Bank of Greece with regards to the disposal of a portfolio of c. 2,800 non-performing, predominantly secured, corporate loans with total principal amount of c. €1.6 billion to the investment firm Bain Capital Credit.
Karatzas & Partners advises National Bank of Greece
Karatzas & Partners is pleased to announce that our firm advised National Bank of Greece with regards to the disposal of the first secured non-performing portfolio of small Business Lending and Small & Medium Enterprises loans with total principal amount of c. €0.9 billion (Project Symbol) to Symbol
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