Email address
[email protected]Contact number
+30 2160007470Share profile
Associates to watch
Provided by Mary Nigritinou
Mary Nigritinou is a Partner at Papanikolopoulou & Partners Law, with a strong focus on capital markets and complex financing transactions. She advises banks, financial institutions and corporates on debt capital markets issuances, structured finance transactions and cross-border financing mandates, with particular experience in bond offerings, regulatory-driven structures and sophisticated lending arrangements.
Mary Nigritinou was promoted to Partner in 2025, having previously served as Senior Associate at the firm. Prior to joining Papanikolopoulou & Partners Law, she spent over eight years at Zepos & Yannopoulos (2016–2024), progressing from Associate to Senior Associate and advising on high-value debt issuances, structured lending and capital markets transactions in both domestic and international contexts. She began her career at KG Law Firm (2013–2016), focusing on banking and finance matters.
She is recognised for her technical precision, commercial awareness and hands-on role in the structuring and execution of complex capital markets mandates.
Her focus is on loan sale transactions, and she has been involved in the sale of loans from all Greek systemic banks, both through securitisation (including securitisations benefiting from the HAPS guarantee) and direct sales, representing either the seller or the buyer. In this respect, Mary was involved in the first NPL securitisation of a Greek systemic bank, and numerous subsequent NPL securitisations, and in the secondary sales of NPL portfolios serviced by one of the largest Greek servicers.
Mary also brings extensive experience in financial institutions M&A; notably, she worked on the carve-out of a systemic bank’s call center operations and its subsequent sale to a third-party investor. Another highlight of Mary’s practise is her involvement in the recapitalisation of two major Greek banks, during the Greek financial crisis. Finally, she recently advised a systemic bank on the issuance of covered bonds under the newly applicable (2023) EU directive on covered bonds (2019/2162), as incorporated into Greek law.
Financial transactions
Capital markets
Funds
M & A
NPL transactions
Regulatory
Greece
European Union (regulatory & cross-border elements)
Cross-border (EU & international financing transactions)
Greek
English
French
University of Athens
Faculty of Law (LL.B.)
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
LLM in European Law
Queen Mary University of London
LL.M. in Corporate and Commercial Law
Provided by Chambers
Mary Nigritinou provides a solid finance and capital markets practice. She assists prominent financial institutions with acquisition financings, NPE securitisations and note issuances.
Provided by Chambers
Mary is always friendly and efficient, and has developed a deep knowledge of NPL law-related transactions.
Mary is always friendly and efficient, and has developed a deep knowledge of NPL law-related transactions.
4 items provided by Papanikolopoulou & Partners Law
Innovative Asset-Backed Financing Transaction
We completed one of the first asset-backed financing transactions in the Greek market applying an innovative hybrid structure combining derivatives with a sophisticated servicing arrangement and irrevocable powers of attorney.
UCI sells its Greek portfolio to a consortium of Credia bank and DK
UCI, Unión de Créditos Inmobiliarios Inmobiliarios S.A. (UCI), a specialised mortgage lender in Spain and Portugal 50/50 owned by Banco Santander S.A and BNP Paribas Group, signed an agreement for the direct sale of its entire Greek to a consortium consisting of CrediaBank and Davidson Kempner Capit
ppl announces promotion of partners
papanikolopoulou & partners is proud to announce the promotion of Mary Nigritinou and Athina Palli to partners.
Zepos & Yannopoulos advised Piraeus Bank in completion of sale of 100% of Piraeus Direct Solutions
The transaction also involved the renewal and amendment of the servicing agreement between Piraeus Direct Solutions and Piraeus Group entities, securing the continuous provision of call center services to Piraeus Group's clientele.
Innovative Asset-Backed Financing Transaction
We completed one of the first asset-backed financing transactions in the Greek market applying an innovative hybrid structure combining derivatives with a sophisticated servicing arrangement and irrevocable powers of attorney.
UCI sells its Greek portfolio to a consortium of Credia bank and DK
UCI, Unión de Créditos Inmobiliarios Inmobiliarios S.A. (UCI), a specialised mortgage lender in Spain and Portugal 50/50 owned by Banco Santander S.A and BNP Paribas Group, signed an agreement for the direct sale of its entire Greek to a consortium consisting of CrediaBank and Davidson Kempner Capit
ppl announces promotion of partners
papanikolopoulou & partners is proud to announce the promotion of Mary Nigritinou and Athina Palli to partners.
Zepos & Yannopoulos advised Piraeus Bank in completion of sale of 100% of Piraeus Direct Solutions
The transaction also involved the renewal and amendment of the servicing agreement between Piraeus Direct Solutions and Piraeus Group entities, securing the continuous provision of call center services to Piraeus Group's clientele.
Provided by Papanikolopoulou & Partners Law
Business and Professional Services
Energy and Utilities
Financial Investors
Financial Services
Industrials, Engineering and Manufacturing