Athanasia joined Bernitsas Law in 2001 and is Joint Head of the Banking, Finance & Capital Markets group. At the core of her practice is vast experience in structuring, drafting, negotiating and advising on the feasibility and implementation of international financial transactions, including on security and hedging arrangements. She has been working on the legal and regulatory aspects of the development of a secondary market of non-performing loans in the portfolios of Greek banks and has been involved in most transactions of this type in the Greek market. Athanasia has significant experience in advising corporates and international and domestic credit and financial institutions on financial restructurings and insolvency proceedings.
Her clients include all the major banks and financial institutions that are active in the Greek market and she has acted in innovative and ground breaking deals which have paved the way for future transactions in the banking sector.
Bernitsas Law is a market leader in the provision of commercial law services in Greece and one of the largest firms in the country. The Firm has unrivalled experience in both benchmark and mainstream domestic and cross-border transactions and has acted in many of the significant and often pioneering matters to have taken place in terms of both complexity and value over the last three decades.
We are leaders in the corporate, commercial and finance sectors, specialising in foreign direct investment, banking, capital markets, funds, energy, projects, privatisation and real estate transactions. We offer expert practices in employment, EU, competition & antitrust, intellectual property, data protection and privacy, public procurement and tax, and in the aviation, environment, insurance, life sciences and healthcare and telecommunications, media and technology industries. Our litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution practice is recognised for its track record in significant administrative, civil and commercial and corporate crime disputes, some of which have created precedents. We deliver an international level of service. A substantial part of the Firm’s practice concentrates on complex domestic and cross-border transactions and disputes and our work is consistently recognised by all the major international legal directories. We count industry frontrunners, listed and private companies, supranational, global and national entities and corporations, and small and medium sized enterprises from all the major sectors among our clients.
