
The ‘responsive and knowledgeable’ team at POTAMITISVEKRIS provides ’business-oriented and cost-effective advice’ to creditors and debtors across a range of domestic and multi-jurisdictional new money financings and refinancings. The firm has ‘vast experience in project finance’, regularly advising key stakeholders providing or receiving the funding to facilitate large-scale projects in the country. In this context, the team is noted for its ability to provide ’commercial not purely legalistic solutions’, with Euripides Ioannou often taking the lead on high-profile mandates relating to infrastructure, energy and real estate. Combining ‘great knowledge and technical ability with an ability to deliver results at great speed’, Greek and English law-qualified partner Anthea Terlegas also regularly assists on energy-related project financings and more broadly is noted for her skill at advising on big-ticket cross-border financings. ’Exceptional’ managing partner George Bersis leads from the front, providing ‘commercial, business and solutions-oriented’ advice across a range of financings, including within the real estate space and capital markets, where he has recently been involved for stakeholders on a variety of IPOs listed on the Athens Stock Exchange. Alexander Metallinos is also well regarded for capital markets matters, in addition to NPL securitisations. Senior partner Stathis Potamitis also handles financing and insolvency work as part of his broad-based transactional practice.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The responsive and knowledgeable team provides business-oriented and cost-effective advice.'
- 'The team is very thorough, level-headed, pragmatic and conservative when it comes to client advice.'
- 'They have vast experience and knowledge in project financing and provide commercial not purely legalistic solutions.'
- 'George Bersis and Elena Theocharakou are exceptional lawyers who are very commercial, business and solutions oriented.'
- 'Anthea Terlegas is a very experienced lawyer with excellent knowledge of the Greek market. She combines great knowledge and technical ability with an ability to deliver results at great speed. She is also excellent at balancing legal risks with commercial realities.'
- 'Maria Perifanou is very knowledgeable and has provided valuable input throughout the transaction and by taking the lead on specific aspects.'
Key clients
- Alpha Bank
- Piraeus Bank
- National Bank of Greece
- Eurobank S.A.
- Aegean Airlines S.A.
- Athens International Airport S.A.
- Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF)
- Optima Bank S.A.
- Gek Terna S.A.
- Fairfax Financial Holdings S.A.
Work highlights
- Advise the four systemic banks of Greece acting as mandated lead arrangers in a €2.7bn euro financing of the 25-year concession project for the operation and maintenance of Attica Motorway, the largest motorway project in Greece in terms of traffic volume.
- Advised UniCredit in the Unicorn transaction with Alpha Bank, a Greek systemic bank. As part of a wider transaction to establish a strategic cooperation between the two banks that includes the merger of the subsidiaries of UniCredit and Alpha in Romania, the purchase of 51% of the shares in Alpha Life by UniCredit and the commercial cooperation between Unicredit and Alpha Bank, UniCredit purchased 9% of Alpha Holdings shares from HFSF.
- Advised Athens International Airport S.A. in the listing of its shares for trading on the Main Market of the Athens Exchange, through the initial offering of shares by its shareholder, the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund.
Lawyers


Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
George Bersis, Stathis Potamitis, Alexander Metallinos, Euripides Ioannou, Anthea Terlegas, Maria Perifanou