Apostolos Gkoutzinis > Milbank > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Milbank
100 Liverpool Street
LONDON
EC2M 2AT
England

Position

Partner, Global Capital Markets

Career

Apostolos Gkoutzinis is one of the most widely respected advisers in his field globally. Focusing on US securities laws and international debt and equity offerings, he covers an exceptionally broad practice across international corporate, capital markets and finance transactions. His experience includes advising on IPOs, international rights offerings and other equity offerings, high-yield and investment-grade bond offerings and private placements, large acquisition financings, tender offers and other liability management exercises, M&A transactions, NPL portfolio sales, restructurings, recapitalizations and privatizations.

In addition to advising on a spectrum of headline transactions globally, Apostolos is one of the most prominent international lawyers in relation to Greece and leads one of the strongest Greek practices available in the market. His track record on post-financial crisis Greek deals is unsurpassed, providing strategic legal advice to most of the major financial and strategic investors in Greece and most of the major banks and listed companies of the country. As well as advising private companies and foreign investors on matters involving private and public capital, restructurings and refinancings, since 2005, Apostolos has also represented the issuers or the underwriters in most of the international and cross-border equity and debt offerings by Greek issuers.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > High yield

(Hall of Fame)

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Milbank‘s high yield practice is ‘at the top of the London market‘ and clients remarks that the lawyers are ‘commercial thinkers who provide outstanding client service‘. A leading firm for corporate issuers, it also advises lenders on leveraged buyouts, particularly when there is a complex bond financing structure. The practice led by Apostolos Gkoutzinis is also sought after for its advice on bond restructurings. Gkoutzinis and key partner Rebecca Marques advised initial purchasers on a €725m offering of senior secured floating rate notes and €300m in senior secured notes by Fiber Bidco S.p.A., the proceeds going towards the funding of the acquisition of Fedrigoni. ‘Creative problem solvers‘ Gkoutzinis and Randy Nahlé acted for initial purchasers, placement agents and lenders in a €690m offering by Italmatch Chemicals as part of the company’s debt refinancing process. Tim Peterson, who is an innovator in the private high yield market, and  ‘extremely knowledgeable and efficient‘ partner Ana Grbec are both highly regarded by both clients and peers. Grbec assisted Castor S.p.A. with the €1.4bn financing of its take-private leveraged buyout of Cerved Group.