Greece

Saplegal–A.S. Papadimitriou & Partners is a prominent law firm, based in Athens and provides full business law services.

Combining legal expertise and business savvy, the firm provides bespoke practical and creative solutions to complex business and legal challenges for its worldwide clients, which include venture capital firms, private equity funds, financial institutions, insurance companies, shipping companies, hoteliers, car industries, foundations, as well as corporations and entrepreneurs in almost all areas of industry and commerce.

Main areas of practice

• Banking, Finance & Capital Markets
• Corporate & Commercial
• Competition Law
• Employment & Labour Law
• Foundations & Non Profit Organisations
• IP & Data Protection
• Insurance Law
• Litigation, Arbitration & Mediation
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Private Equity & Venture Capital
• Real Estate
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• Shipping
• Tax

M&A, Corporate/Commercial

With significant experience and expertise in national and cross-border M&A, the firm has advised buyers, sellers, financial advisers, funds and investors on all kinds of transactions, including public and private M&As, takeovers, management buy-outs, joint ventures and other types of commercial affiliations, with significant sector strengths in financial services, insurance, health, hospitality, media and aquiculture. The firm also has extensive experience in corporate transformations and restructurings. Its recognition in the Greek legal market has led to its selection as legal advisors of the Greek State in relation to the establishment of the Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations S.A.

Private Equity & Venture Capital

The firm's extensive experience includes the establishment of funds and venture capital firms from hundreds of majority and minority high-value investments of several sectors in Greece and abroad. Its team of experts is steadily advising fund managers, financial sponsors and strategic investors (including investment arms of the Greek State). The firm has acted as legal advisors to the first IPO of a venture capital firm in the Athens Stock Exchange, as well as contributing as experts to the transposition of the AIFM Directive and advising the Greek government on the establishment of the Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations S.A.

Banking, Finance & Capital Markets

The team advises banks, corporate borrowers and funds. The range of its services expand from incorporation of credit and financial institutions, insurance companies and funds to regularly advising in a range of financing matters, corporate bond issues, re-financings and debt-restructurings, acting for lender and borrower-side clients. The firm has also noted expertise in acquisition and leveraged finance. It has acted as advisors (on the seller side) for several sales of non-performing exposure portfolios (consumer and business secured loans) by the Greek banks. The firm offers specialist advice in the insurance sector, as well as expertise in real estate, asset and project finance. The firm was engaged by the Ministry of Development for the establishment of Institution Growth (IfG) and by EU Structural Reform Support Service (SRSS) to act as technical advisors to the Ministry of Economy to draft the out-of-court settlement legislation.