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Key contacts
Managing Partner: Ilias Koimtzoglou
Partner: Michalis Pattakos
Quick facts
Number of lawyers

44

Network memberships

Member of the Athens Bar Association

Languages

Greek | English

Key practice areas
Banking and finance
Financial and corporate
M&A
Project development
Firm overview

KBVL Law Firm is a member of Deloitte Legal, the international network of legal practices working with Deloitte all over the world.

KBVL Law Firm corresponds to the initials of "Ilias Koimtzoglou, Efstathios Bakalis, George Venieris and Thomas Leventis” and it is composed by a group of Lawyers with significant experience and skills in several areas of Law, covering different sectors of business activity, national and international, promoting global opportunities and solutions with an international mindset.

KBVL is built from individuals who are solely chosen on the basis of merit and come from different backgrounds and experiences, dedicated in providing high quality of legal services.

Our customer-centric philosophy combined with our common-shared principles and the use of technology provides for comprehensive, client friendly and seamless legal services. The latter, enables us to propose several diversified and adequate solutions tailored to the needs to each client. In KBVL, we are striving for the provision of in depth-legal services with innovation and knowledge of the particularities of the Greek legal and business environment, adding value to the clients’ projects, in an integrated and global manner.

We promote diversity, ethics and integrity through our workload. These features strengthen our firm and our people and they help us when dealing with our clients. The result is an environment of respect for the individual and of ongoing development.

KBVL invites you to experience the future of law, today. Meet current obligations more effectively while anticipating future opportunities. Automate complicated and time-consuming legal activities. Benefit from a commercial mindset that integrates legal, business and industry expertise. Draw upon our experience with business operating model transformation. As you lead your enterprise through unprecedented complexity and change, we’ll work with you not just for you. Working together, you’re empowered to make confident decisions, guide your business and take advantage of possibilities.

Experience the future of law, today.

Key transactional practices

KBVL team has vast experience and a high level of specialty in the following areas:

  • Banking & Finance
  • Capital Markets regulation
  • Commercial agreements
  • Competition
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate restructuring
  • Covered Bonds
  • Financial restructuring
  • Financial services regulatory
  • Insolvency procedures
  • M&A
  • PPP/PFI
  • Private Clients Services (PCS)
  • Private equity
  • Project bonds
  • Project development
  • Project finance
  • Real estate finance
  • Real estate funds
  • Restructuring and insolvency
  • Structured finance/securitization
  • Tax controversy and tax litigation
  • TMT
Sector expertise

KBVL team is particularly strong in the following industries:

  • Automobile industry
  • Banking & Finance
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Defence procurement
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Food and beverage
  • Gaming
  • Government and public policy
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Investment management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and gas
  • Pharm and life sciences
  • Privatizations
  • Real estate
  • Retail
  • Shipyards
  • Tech and telecoms
  • Tourism
  • Transport
Address:
3a Fragkokklisias & Granikou Str Marousi
15125
Tel:+302130881900 Email:Contact Us Web Address:http://kbvl.gr
Rankings published in 2026
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Linked Reviews
Financial and corporate

Koimtzoglou-Bakalis-Venieris-Leventis & Associates (KBVL Law Firm) is a Greek business law firm led by managing partner Koimtzoglou Ilias. The firm has an office in Athens and is a member of the Deloitte Legal network.

 

Highlights

KBVL represented Grivalia Hospitality, a Greece-based real estate investment company, on a group-wide cross-border restructuring. The deal involving a review and assessment of numerous credit facilities with multiple lenders. The deal closed in June 2024. 

Elsewhere, KBVL served as legal representative for LAMDA Development, advising on the transformation of the former national airport property, Hellinikon, into a 'smart and sustainable city'. In mid-2025, the project was the largest real estate development underway in Europe. 

 

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Deal Highlights
2 results2 results
Deal Name Deal Date Firm Name Jurisdiction Deal Type Lawyer Names Client Names Client Role
Legendary Foods - Real estate development
2020-01-07
KBVL
Greece
Real estate development
Ilias Koimtzoglou
Legendary Foods
Contractor
NM Asset Management; LARKO; - Insolvency
2021-02-25
KBVL
Greece
Insolvency
Ilias Koimtzolgou
NM Asset Management, LARKO
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