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Lawyers

Vangelis Politis

Vangelis Politis

Position

Managing Partner

Career

Vangelis practices in the areas of Commercial and Corporate Law, M&A, Banking & Finance and Litigation & Arbitration. He has acted as counsel and lead counsel in some of the largest privatization projects in Greece. He works closely with corporate and finance clients and his capital markets experience covers advising financial institutions and debt and equity issuers in numerous IPOs of Greek companies covering most industry and financial sectors.

He has represented buyers, sellers and financial institutions in various investment projects and all types of acquisitions and dispositions, including energy development projects, health care related companies, e-commerce and communications related businesses, IT services and products companies, and many types of companies on industrial and financial services.

His over 25 years trial and litigation experience covers a wide range of areas, including complex commercial lawsuits, banking, securities and insurance litigation and intellectual property and employment disputes. Vangelis has represented many clients on multi-million international arbitrations and at the Greek Supreme Court.

He has served as outside general counsel to a number of publicly-held entities and has extensive experience in corporate counselling as to disclosure matters, restructurings and a wide variety of business-related legal matters.

Vangelis Politis has been invited as speaker in corporate and securities laws conferences and is the author of the book “Public Disclosure: An obligation of companies with listed shares”, a book published by Sakkoulas Publications (2002). He has been also a contributing author on “Sociétés Anonymes”, published by Sakkoulas Publications (editions 2013 & 2020), as well as of many articles in the field of corporate and securities law published in Greek and foreign law reviews.

Languages

Greek, English and French

Mentions

Greece

Banking, finance and capital markets

Greece

Commercial, corporate and M&A

Greece

Dispute resolution

Leading partner
Greece

Energy

Greece

EU and competition

Greece

Projects and privatisation