POTAMITISVEKRIS

Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate and M&A, Arbitration, Insolvency & Restructuring

Partner

Alexander is an established practitioner with more than 25 years of experience in the fields of banking-finance, M&A, corporate law, and arbitration. Highlight transactions include the first major leveraged acquisition in Greece, the first hive-down of the banking business of a systemic Greek bank, NPL transactions of a combined gross book value in excess of 15 billion Euros and the first issuance of covered bonds.

He holds an LL.B. from the law school of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, an LL.M. and a doctorate in European Law from the Westfälische Universität Münster and an LL.M. from the Yale Law School. Alexander, besides his practice, is a recognized legal scholar, acting as visiting lecturer at the University of Athens Law School, and frequently publishing scholarly work.

Moreover, he has been a contributing member of the committees for the reform of the Greek corporate and insolvency laws.

Greek, English, German, French

Admission:

Supreme Court, 2000

Education:

Yale Law School (LL.M., 1994) Westfällische Wilhelms Universität Münster Law School (Doctorate, 1993) Westfällische Wilhelms Universität Münster Law School (LL.M., 1991) University of Athens Law School (LL.B.)