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About
Provided by Christina Papanikolopoulou
Practice Areas
Finance & Capital Markets, Restructuring & Insolvency
Career
Over the past 30 years Christina has worked on major capital markets and financial transactions, such as IPOs, tender offers, secondary trades of publicly trading shares, covered bonds, debt securities, synthetic securitisations and securitisations of a wide range of commercial and financial receivables, including, more recently, transactions involving distressed banking and trade originated debt.
Her areas of practice are financial transactions, capital markets and structured finance, with an emphasis on cross border transactions. Her clients include most of the large institutional and private clients, both domestic and international, that operate in the Greek market, across the entire financial institutions’ spectrum.
Christina has played a key role in structuring many innovative and one-of-a-kind transactions in the Greek market, such as the first banking receivables securitisation in 2003, the first CMBS in 2004 and the first non-performing loans tranched securitisation in 2017.
EDUCATION
Southampton University School of law (LL.M.)
University of Athens, Faculty of Law (LL.B.)
LANGUAGES
Greek
English
French
Chambers Review
Europe
Christina Papanikolopoulou is highly respected for her in-depth expertise across the full spectrum of banking and finance mandates, as well as capital market transactions. She regularly advises prestigious international lenders and investors on note issuances, securitisations and regulatory issues.
Christina Papanikolopoulou is highly respected for her in-depth expertise across the full spectrum of banking and finance mandates, as well as capital market transactions. She regularly advises prestigious international lenders and investors on note issuances, securitisations and regulatory issues.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Christina Papanikolopoulou can handle very complex transactions and provide accurate legal advice."
"She is a leader in her field in Greece. She is business-oriented and always looking for solutions."
"Christina Papanikolopoulou can handle very complex transactions and provide accurate legal advice."
"She is a leader in her field in Greece. She is business-oriented and always looking for solutions."