Christina Papanikolopoulou

Practice Areas

Finance & Capital Markets, Restructuring & Insolvency

Career

Christina has been practicing financial law since 1998, leading groundbreaking transactions in the Greek market. Notable achievements include the first securitisation in the Greek banking sector, the first Greek synthetic securitisation, the first CMBS transaction, the first issuance of preferred redeemable shares offered to U.S. retail investors and listed on the New York Stock Exchange by a Greek systemic bank and the first relisting from the ATHEX to an international stock exchange (LSE) for a major Greece-based group.

Christina also led the first real estate investment company (REIC) IPO and combined offering to Greek and institutional investors in Europe and the US, as well as (in 2024) the first IPO and combined offering of a Greek company after almost 20 years of standstill; during the Greek financial crisis, Christina worked on the Greek PSI, on the recapitalisations of systemic banks, and on the first special liquidation of a failing Greek bank. In the field of non-performing loans, Christina provided the legal structure for the first sale of a nonperforming loans portfolio for a medium size Greek bank, as well as for the first securitisation of commercial nonperforming exposures for one of the systemic banks; moreover, she worked on most of the NPL-related transactions that have taken place over the past years, including HAPS transactions and the set-up of the Greek arm of one of the largest NPL servicers in Europe.

EDUCATION

Southampton University School of law (LL.M.)

University of Athens, Faculty of Law (LL.B.)

LANGUAGES

Greek

English

French