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Greece

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Provided by Melina Katsimi

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Practice Areas

Corporate

M&A

Real Estate

Capital Markets

Tax

Career

Melina Katsimi is a key partner in our Corporate and M&A practices where she specializes in conducting and overseeing due diligences for both domestic and international clients. She has played an important role in many large-scale transactions and company formations and restructurings. Her work has helped to shape transactions in a range of industries including banking and finance, real estate, hospitality, media, music, retail, oil and gas, infrastructure, renewables, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and payments.

Melina has worked extensively with DEPA, the public gas corporation, on its program of restructuring and privatization. She has also advised on the formation of payments network operator Cardlink and the Bank of Greece’s single special liquidator for credit and financial institutions, PQH.

She has worked closely with international law firms, particularly with Baker McKenzie in London, and is recognized as a reliable and expert partner to support their client’s activities in Greece.

Melina has steadily risen through the ranks at Lambadarios, showing great technical understanding, attention to detail and commercial awareness.

Professional Memberships

Athens Bar Association

Industry Sector Expertise

M&A is a core practice for Lambadarios and Melina plays a key role in the firm’s success here, specializing in delivering the high quality in due diligences that underpins successful transactions.

Melina has advised on company formations and major corporate restructurings for a wide range of clients, both domestic and international. She has also played a pivotal role in a number of key transactions for Lambadarios, including the privatizations of DEPA, the public gas corporation. She advised DEPA on its €1 billion demerger, the largest corporate transformation in Greece in the oil and gas sector, and on the formation of two separate entities DEPA commercial and DEPA infrastructure; on the acquisition of several wind farms and hydroelectric plants for an international buyer, and; on the Medtronic Covidian and the Dow Dupont global mergers, advising the local mergers.

Alongside supporting our own direct clients, Melina works closely with Baker McKenzie LLP’s London office on major restructuring projects and tax-related matters in Greece across a wide range of sectors including telecoms, software development, electronics, consumer goods, music and entertainment, mining, energy, payment systems, home appliances, building materials and technology.

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