Ms Anastasia Mallerou > Bernitsas Law > Athens, Greece > Lawyer Profile

Bernitsas Law
5 LYKAVITTOU STREET
106 72 ATHENS
Greece

Work Department

Banking, Finance & Capital Markets

Position

Counsel

Anastasia is a leading banking and finance lawyer with over 20 years of experience in private practice and industry organisations. She is a recognised expert in payment systems and payment services law with extensive knowledge in the legal and regulatory frameworks governing technological innovation in the financial services industry.

Anastasia brings a wealth of knowledge in the area of emerging technologies and the law, with a focus on blockchain, and in ESG. She is also highly experienced in advising on corporate and IT law and corporate governance matters and playing a key role in national and cross-border transactions.

Anastasia has served as a Member of the Board of Directors and the General Counsel of the Greek retail payment system “DIAS” and has also worked as a payment expert with the Hellenic Bank Association.

She was a Member of the Legal Support Group of the European Payments Council of the European Banking Federation in Brussels, set up to advise on the establishment of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) and the introduction of uniform rules for Euro payment transactions throughout the Eurozone.

Anastasia was a visiting lecturer at the European Law & Governance School of the European Public Law Organisation (EPLO).

Career

She is admitted to the Athens Bar (1994).

Languages

Greek, English, French and Italian

Education

Anastasia holds a Degree in Law from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, an LLM in International Banking and Securities Law from Boston University and a PhD in the Law of Electronic Money from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Law. Anastasia also holds a PhD in Neoplatonic Philosophy from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Philosophy.

Lawyer Rankings

Greece > Banking, finance and capital markets

The ‘very experienced‘ team at Bernitsas Law provides an ‘innovative and commercial approach’ to lenders and borrowers across a broad swathe of transactional and regulatory work in the banking and capital markets sphere. Although it handles some more commoditised mandates, the team is best known for its aptitude at providing ‘solutions-oriented’ advice on complex transactions, including as it relates to work in the secondary market for non-performing loans (NPLs) and the structuring and implementation of securitisation transactions. The ‘exceptional’ Athanasia Tsene, who is lauded as a ‘true business partner’ as a result of her ability to provide ‘sharp and practical advicehas been pivotal to the firm’s success in the NPL field, work which she combines with other, often highly structured finance transactions. Nikos Papachristopoulos has ‘extensive exposure and experience across all areas of banking, finance and capital markets’ and co-heads the team alongside Tsene. The team was strengthened at the beginning of 2024 by the arrival of fintech and payments expert Anastasia Mallerou and Pantazis Karamanolis, who adds tremendous gravitas to the practice in light of his vast in-house banking experience, from their own practices.