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Founded in September 2024, ppl brings together senior lawyers with over a decade of experience working as a team. Same team, different name, now focused on building a leading presence in financial law. We provide top-tier, in-depth advice to financial institutions and their advisors, large-cap international and domestic clients, and specialised entities operating in the Greek market.
Delivering results that others aspire to
With a deep understanding of our clients’ unique needs, we guide them through every challenge, turning obstacles into opportunities. Whether navigating complexities or handling intense pressures, our team drives breakthroughs with a singular focus: delivering results that truly matter, every step of the way.
Hitting every note
Our team works with clarity, consistency and impact. With razor-sharp expertise and a proven track-record in high-stakes cases, we consistently deliver innovative solutions, executing them flawlessly.
Deep-rooted knowledge and innovation
We have been practicing financial law since 1998, leading groundbreaking transactions in the Greek market. From the first securitisation in the Greek banking sector, the first Greek synthetic securitisation, the first CMBS transaction, and the first issuance of preferred redeemable shares offered to U.S. retail investors, the Greek financial crisis and the PSI to the first securitisation of commercial nonperforming exposures to the first combined offering IPO of a Greek corporate in Greece after more than two decades of standstill, our team has been at the forefront of transactions that have shaped the Greek economy.
Our clients
Major players operating in Greece, such as international investment banks, systemic banks, international investors, large-cap corporates, fintech, financial and other specialised advisors.
- Asset finance
- Banking
- Capital markets: Debt
- Capital markets: Derivatives
- Capital markets: Equity
- Financial restructuring
- Financial services regulatory
- Hedge funds
- Investment funds
- M&A
- PPP/PFI
- Private equity
- Private equity funds
- Project bonds
- Project finance
- Real estate finance
- Real estate funds
- Securitisation
- Structured finance/securitisation
- Other
Christina Papanikolopoulou
Asset finance
christina.papanikolopoulou@ppl.law
We closed 2025 having completed a series of asset-backed finance transactions, structured around a wide range of underlying assets, from real estate to contingent and deferred receivables. Across these transactions, our role spanned from advising on the legal structure, to leading or supporting the drafting of the transaction documentation. Each deal required a deep dive into the underlying asset characteristics and constraints, including issues around transferability, confidentiality, operational continuity and realisation pathways, and translating those constraints into a workable contractual and operational framework. A further key workstream was the financial reporting interface. We worked closely with accountants and auditors to ensure that the legal architecture appropriately reflected the intended risk-and-reward transfer and supported the relevant IFRS analysis (including derecognition considerations), in a way that was consistent with the asset profile and transaction mechanics. We are seeing increasing appetite from key players such as systemic banks and blue-chip corporates for precisely these kinds of non-standard, asset specific financing solutions, and we expect this trend to accelerate in 2026.
Mary Nigritinou
Financial restructuring
mary.nigritinou@ppl.law
UCI sells its Greek portfolio to a consortium of Credia bank and DK UCI, Unión de Créditos Inmobiliarios Inmobiliarios S.A. (UCI), a specialized mortgage lender in Spain and Portugal 50/50 owned by Banco Santander S.A and BNP Paribas Group, signed an agreement for the direct sale of its entire Greek to a consortium consisting of CrediaBank and Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP.UCI’s Greek portfolio is a mix of performing and non performing residential mortgage loans in Greece and certain unsecured consumer exposures. ppl assisted UCI from the early stages of the transaction through negotiations and until the execution of the agreement.
Athina Palli
Capital markets-Equity
athina.palli@ppl.law
We have acted as advisors to Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations S.A. in relation to the sale of 1,815,000 shares of THESSALONIKI WATER SUPPLY & SEWERAGE CO. S.A. – EYATH S.A. through an accelerated book building offering, the first ABB to be conducted via the AthEx Electronic Book Building. Euroxx Securities SA acted as Manager.