Ms Evi Kitsou > Bernitsas Law > Athens, Greece > Lawyer Profile

Bernitsas Law
5 LYKAVITTOU STREET
106 72 ATHENS
Greece

Work Department

Corporate and M&A; Insurance.

Position

Partner

Evi is a specialist in advising on corporate and commercial transactions, company structuring and regulatory compliance across a wide range of industries with an expertise in the insurance, consumer goods, automobile and other highly regulated sectors.

Evi has been with the Firm since 2000 and maintains long-standing ongoing relationships with many of her clients, who turn to her for assistance with issues arising in the conduct of their day-to-day business and the structuring and negotiation of a great variety of corporate and commercial contracts.

Evi has considerable experience in share transfers, mergers and acquisitions, corporate transformations, business transfers and asset deals, establishment of subsidiaries or branches of international companies and internal restructurings.

Career

She is admitted to the Athens Bar (1999) and the Supreme Court of Greece (2018).

Languages

Greek, English, French and Spanish.

Education

Evi holds a Degree in Law and an LLM in Public International Law from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and an LLM in Environmental Law from King’s College, London.

Lawyer Rankings

Greece > Commercial, corporate and M&A

(Leading partners)

Evi KitsouBernitsas Law

The M&A specialists at Bernitsas Law cover the renewable energy, construction and insurance sectors. The team is praised for its ‘excellent quality’ by its domestic and international clients. The firm’s corporate offering is broad, covering cross-border joint ventures, spin-off transactions and regulatory compliance measures, among other areas. The ‘very experiencedNikos Papachristopoulos jointly leads the department and is an expert in capital markets and corporate reorganisations, and fellow co-head Lambros Belessis primarily concentrates on private sector mergers. Managing partner Panayotis Bernitsas is knowledgeable in competition law issues; Maria Nefeli Bernitsa is hailed as a ‘rising star’; Evi Kitsou focuses on commercial transactions; and Yannis Seiradakis concentrates on privatisations. Iris Sotiriou is also a key contact.

Greece > Insurance

Routinely assisting major insurance companies and financial institutions with M&A transactions, insurance misrepresentation claims and regulatory compliance measures, Bernitsas Law demonstrates strong cross-border expertise. Athens-based team leader Lambros Belessis is an expert in private sector mergers, joint venture partnerships and corporate restructurings, while Evi Kitsou is highly knowledgeable in commercial transactions and regulatory compliance. Christos Paraskevopoulos specialises in white-collar crime disputes.