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Antonia Rountou

Antonia Rountou

Work Department

Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Banking, Finance and Capital Markets

Position

Associate

Antonia focuses on corporate, commercial, M&A and banking law. She is engaged in a wide range of multinational M&As and other corporate transactions by carrying out legal due diligence, drafting transactional documentation, and handling related Greek law formalities.

Antonia also regularly advises domestic corporate clients and international businesses on corporate and commercial matters of their day-to-day operation, ongoing corporate governance, and compliance with the domestic and EU regulatory framework. Her experience encompasses project finance transactional work on behalf of corporations and credit institutions, such as corporate loans and restructuring.

Prior to joining Papapolitis & Papapolitis, Antonia worked on EU competition law matters with a leading US international law firm in Brussels, and provided advisory work for one of the largest express freight companies worldwide. She has also been involved in bank resolution matters at the European Commission.

Languages

Greek, English, French, Italian, Spanish

Memberships

Athens Bar Association

Brussels Bar Association (E-list)

Education

LL.M. in International Business Law (Merit), Université libre de Bruxelles

LL.M. in Public International Law (Hons), Faculty of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

LL.B. (Merit), Faculty of Law, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Personal

PUBLICATIONS

Contribution in “Competition and Antitrust Law Expert Guide”, Corporate Livewire, 2021 & 2020

“Foreign Direct Investment: The Impact of the EU FDI Screening Regulation on Investments in Europe”, Expert Briefing on M&A, Financier Worldwide, 2021

“EU Competition Law Considerations in M&A Transactions in Light of Recent Enforcement Trends”, Expert Briefing on M&A, Financier Worldwide, 2020

Mentions

Greece

Commercial, corporate and M&A