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Mrs Chrysanthi Karlou

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Work Department

M&A
Public Procurement, Privatisations, Concessions & Public Private Partnerships
Corporate & Commercial Law

Position

Chrysanthi holds a wide range of transactional and advisory experience with a focus on M&A, capital markets and banking & finance transactions. Her track record includes advising on international rights offerings and other equity offerings, Greek and cross-border M&A transactions, large scale financings, complex debt and equity restructurings, NPL portfolio sales and tender offers.

Prior to joining Koutalidis Law Firm, Chrysanthi worked in the corporate and banking department of another major international law firm.

Career

Recent work includes advice to:

• MGE Hellenic Investments S.à r.l. to the sale of McArthurGlenDesigner Outlet Athens to Lamda Olympia Village S.M.S.A.,
• Viva Wallet on the agreement with J.P. Morgan to acquire an ownership stake of approximately 49% on a €1.5 billion valuation by JPM.
• Waterwheel Capital Management in one of the first secondary trades involving an NPL portfolio originated by Eurobank S.A.. The bank completed the securitisation of the €3.2bn portfolio consisting predominately of non-performing exposures of residential mortgage loans.
• Alpha Bank on its Euro 500M Senior Preferred bond issuance which has a 6.5-year maturity and is callable in year 5.5 with a coupon of 2.5% and a yield of 2.625%. The bond is listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange – EuroMTF Market,
• United Group B.V. in its acquisition of WIND Hellas, one of Greece’s three mobile operators with a total of 4.2 million users and revenues in excess of EUR 500 million annually,
• The four systemic banks in relation to the ongoing debt restructuring and corporate reorganization of Sidma Steel S.A.,
• Alpha Bank in relation to the envisaged hive down of its banking sector,
• Alpha Bank in relation to the issuance of €500million Tier 2 subordinated bonds under the update EMTN Programme,
• Alpha Bank, Eurobank, NBG and Piraeus Bank in relation to the sale of equity and debt restructuring of the Greek sea farm listed companies Nireus and Selonda.

Languages

Greek, English, German and Spanish

Memberships

Member of the Athens Bar Association

Education

• Institute for Law and Finance, Goethe University of Frankfurt (LL.M. Finance, 2006)
• Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Master of European Studies, 2004)
• University of Athens, Faculty of Laws (LL.B., 2003)