Athanasia Tsene
Hall of fameBernitsas LawPrimarily drawing from the firm’s banking and M&A offerings, the transactional-focused multi-disciplinary team at Bernitsas Law provides ‘excellent and customer-oriented advice’ to creditors, debtors and investors across a myriad balance sheet restructurings and distressed M&A, in particular. Athanasia Tsene provides ’accurate, succinct and business-oriented advice’, including to stakeholders (on the buy/servicer and sell side) in relation to the secondary market for NPLs. Lambros Belessis co-heads the team alongside Tsene.
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- 'It is a top-tier firm that provides excellent and customer-oriented advice.'
- 'Athanasia Tsene provides accurate, succinct and business-oriented advice. She outlines all the risks without being a business stopper.'
Key clients
- Apollo Capital Management LLC - Lapithus Group
- CPPIB
- Eurobank Ergasias
- Hoist Hellas SA and Hoist Finance (publ) AB
- Hoist Consulting
- Intrum AB (publ)
- Intrum Hellas SA
- National Bank of Greece
- Piraeus Bank
- PIMCO
- The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF)
- Viatris
Work highlights
- Advised BMW Hellas Trade of Cars SA on the successful spin-off of its vehicles leasing sector, contributing this division to its newly established wholly owned subsidiary, BMW Hellas Leasing Single Member Private Company.
- Advising Hoist Finance and Hoist Consulting in connection with the servicing coordination arrangements in respect of the CELL Portfolio of €1.5bn NPLs and the PEARL Portfolio of NPLs.
- Providing ongoing advice to Apollo and Lapithus Group on the restructuring of securitised receivables and secondary transfers of restructured exposures.
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Practice head
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Lambros Belessis, Athanasia Tsene