POTAMITISVEKRIS

Capital Markets, Corporate and M&A, Insolvency & Restructuring

Senior Partner

Stathis has a broadly based transactional practice and has acted in numerous cross-border mergers and acquisitions across South-East Europe. He has worked on legislative and regulatory issues of the capital and derivatives market, financing and banking issues, international arbitration and corporate transactions and restructurings. As member of the Hellenic Corporate Governance Council he has participated in the preparation of the Hellenic Corporate Governance Code and the drafting of special good corporate governance practices for unlisted and family enterprises.

He has recently worked on insolvency issues and other pre-bankruptcy procedures and the regulation of the Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) market.

Greek, English, French

Admissions:

Athens Bar Association, 2000

Thessaloniki Bar Association, 1992

State of New York, 1987,

Stathis is a member of the Review and Advisory Judge Co Project, developing Principles and Guidelines for cross-border cooperation in insolvency cases, and National Correspondent for the ELI Rescue of Business in Insolvency Law initiative. He is an INSOL International Fellow and a member of the International Insolvency Institute. He is also a member of a group of experts formed by the European Commission for issues regarding the rescue of businesses (product of which is the recent relevant Directive Proposal).

Education:

University of Toronto, Canada MA, 1991 University of Toronto, Canada LLB, 1986 University of Paris IV Eleve Titulaire, 1982-83 University of Toronto, Canada BA, 1979