Mr Athanassios Avgeros > Avramopoulos & Partners > Athens, Greece > Lawyer Profile
Avramopoulos & Partners Offices
64 VAS. SOFIAS AVENUE
115 28 ATHENS
Greece
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Mr Athanassios Avgeros
Work Department
Commercial, Corporate and M and A, Real Estate and Construction, Tax, Employment, Dispute Resolution, Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, Aviation, Energy, Insurance
Position
Partner
Career
Athanassios Avgeros joined Avramopoulos & Partners law firm in 2005 and since then has handled the drafting, negotiation and conclusion of international contracts, issued legal opinions (mainly regarding the enforcement of several contractual arrangements in banking, financing and other fields under Greek law), and oversaw numerous complex due diligence reports (mainly in the area of merger & acquisition transactions). He has also successfully conducted complex litigation cases involving various civil and labour law matters.
Before joining Avramopoulos & Partners, he worked for twelve years at Simantiras Law Offices, focusing on commercial law, corporate law and property law. From 2003 to present he has been a legal advisor for OFC Aviation Fuel Services S.A. at the Athens International Airport.This entity is responsible for designing, expanding, financing and operating the facilities for receipt, storage and distribution of aviation fuel at the Athens International Airport. In 2010, Athanassios joined the legal department of the
Consignment Deposits and Loans Fund (CDL), supervised by the Greek Ministry of Finance for ten (10) years and has, inter alia recently negotiated the finance agreements signed with the European Investment Bank for the financing of local authorities, on behalf of the CDL.
Athanassios has work experience in France and the UK. After completing his postgraduate studies at Paris II, he joined the Gide Loyrette Noel Law Firm in Paris, as a trainee. In 1989, he served as an in-house lawyer for Granomar, a Geneva-based company, where he mainly dealt with banking and finance matters as well as the arbitration procedure in commodities, such as GAFTA. In 1990, Athanassios became an in-house legal advisor for Olympic Airways. He has been involved in the drafting and reviewing of numerous operative and/or financial agreements. These agreements involved the sale, finance and lease of individual aircraft and fleets, multimillion financing of aircraft under various forms, loan agreements and ground handling agreements, as well as the provision of several services from and/or to third parties, IT license agreements and all issues related to the air industry(including litigation).
He also participated in several working groups under the auspices of the Greek Civil Aviation Authority. Furthermore, he has been the main representative of Olympic Airlines at the Association of European Airlines (AEA) based in Brussels.
Languages
Greek, English, French, Italian.
Memberships
Athens Bar Association (1990)
Qualified to appear before the Supreme Court
Education
University of Athens Law School (LL.B. 1996)
Université Paris II, Droit du Commerce International (D.E.A.1987)
Lawyer Rankings
Greece > Banking, finance and capital markets
Avramopoulos & Partners has deep knowledge across a range of financial products, including RCFs, syndicated loans and bond issuances, enabling it to provide effective advice to a borrower-focused client base seeking to raise finance for event-driven and general working capital purposes. Other work includes advice on NPL mandates, as well as financial regulatory matters. Team head Athanassios Avgeros handles transactional and regulatory matters, including as it relates to project finance and asset finance mandates.
Greece > Commercial, corporate and M&A
Spearheaded by Athens-based Vassilis Avramopoulos, the team at Avramopoulos & Partners has vast expertise in commercial contract negotiations, high-profile joint ventures, and corporate governance matters. Routinely providing a ‘great sense of legal security’, Barbara Angelopoulou specialises in drafting commercial agreements and agency contracts, whilst Athanassios Avgeros is an expert in contractual matters in the banking and finance sector. Vicky Kolintza focuses on shipping and yachting-related transactions, and Yanna Antonopoulou is also noted as a key member of the practice.
Greece > Restructuring and insolvency
(Firms to watch)Avramopoulos & Partners has a growing restructuring and insolvency practice, advising on NPL settlement agreements and portfolio acquisitions, restructuring agreements and disposals of assets. The team is led by Barbara Angelopoulou and Athanassios Avgeros.
Greece > Dispute resolution
Handling all stages of arbitration and litigation proceedings, the practice at Avramopoulos & Partners regularly takes on cases involving breaches of contract, tort claims, and creditors’ rights. The team is especially knowledgeable in relation to the enforcement procedures of arbitral awards. Practice co-head Athanassios Avgeros is skilled in local and multi-jurisdictional cases, in addition to assisting clients with all elements of risk mitigation. He leads the practice with Athanassios Safaris, who has expertise in EU law and public procurement cases, whilst Barbara Angelopoulou focuses on corporate disputes.
Greece > Employment
A firm with extensive experience across all elements of the labour and employment law field, including in contentious proceedings, Avramopoulos & Partners is praised for its ‘professionalism and knowledge’. Athanassios Avgeros and Barbara Angelopoulou co-head the team, with the former specialising in drafting employment agreements and advising on benefit claim issues, whilst the latter regularly resolves employee disputes. Eleftheria Bagouraki focuses on Greek citizenship and immigration matters.
Lawyer Rankings
- Commercial, corporate and M&A Greece
- Employment Greece
- Banking, finance and capital markets Greece
- Dispute resolution Greece
- Firms to watch Greece > Restructuring and insolvency