Apostolos Gkoutzinis > Milbank > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Milbank Offices
100 Liverpool Street
LONDON
EC2M 2AT
England
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Apostolos Gkoutzinis
Position
Partner, Global Capital Markets
Career
Apostolos Gkoutzinis is one of the most widely respected advisers in his field globally. Focusing on US securities laws and international debt and equity offerings, he covers an exceptionally broad practice across international corporate, capital markets and finance transactions. His experience includes advising on IPOs, international rights offerings and other equity offerings, high-yield and investment-grade bond offerings and private placements, large acquisition financings, tender offers and other liability management exercises, M&A transactions, NPL portfolio sales, restructurings, recapitalizations and privatizations.
In addition to advising on a spectrum of headline transactions globally, Apostolos is one of the most prominent international lawyers in relation to Greece and leads one of the strongest Greek practices available in the market. His track record on post-financial crisis Greek deals is unsurpassed, providing strategic legal advice to most of the major financial and strategic investors in Greece and most of the major banks and listed companies of the country. As well as advising private companies and foreign investors on matters involving private and public capital, restructurings and refinancings, since 2005, Apostolos has also represented the issuers or the underwriters in most of the international and cross-border equity and debt offerings by Greek issuers.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > High yield
(Hall of Fame)Milbank‘s high yield practice is ‘at the top of the London market‘ and clients remarks that the lawyers are ‘commercial thinkers who provide outstanding client service‘. A leading firm for corporate issuers, it also advises lenders on leveraged buyouts, particularly when there is a complex bond financing structure. The practice led by Apostolos Gkoutzinis is also sought after for its advice on bond restructurings. Gkoutzinis and key partner Rebecca Marques advised initial purchasers on a €725m offering of senior secured floating rate notes and €300m in senior secured notes by Fiber Bidco S.p.A., the proceeds going towards the funding of the acquisition of Fedrigoni. ‘Creative problem solvers‘ Gkoutzinis and Randy Nahlé acted for initial purchasers, placement agents and lenders in a €690m offering by Italmatch Chemicals as part of the company’s debt refinancing process. Tim Peterson, who is an innovator in the private high yield market, and ‘extremely knowledgeable and efficient‘ partner Ana Grbec are both highly regarded by both clients and peers. Grbec assisted Castor S.p.A. with the €1.4bn financing of its take-private leveraged buyout of Cerved Group.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Transport > Aviation
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Finance > Securitisation
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium