Practice Areas
Corporate, M&A & Private Equity
Overview
Corporate, M&A and private equity work sits at the centre of our firm. It is where ownership, governance, investment strategy and execution meet, and where many of our finance, real estate, regulatory, tax, and sector-focused mandates come together.
We advise Greek and international companies, boards, shareholders, financial sponsors, family-owned groups, founders, management teams and investors on the full corporate lifecycle: establishment and governance, shareholder arrangements, strategic transactions, reorganisations, investment rounds, acquisitions, exits and ongoing corporate advisory work. For many clients, we operate as trusted Greek corporate counsel, supporting not only their transactional work, but also the decisions, approvals and structures that allow the business to operate and grow with legal certainty.
Our transactional work covers public and private M&A, joint ventures, carve-outs, equity investments, corporate reorganisations and exits across sectors including energy, real estate, hospitality, technology, financial services and regulated industries. We have particular experience in cross-border investments into Greece, where transaction structure, tax treatment, sector approvals, regulatory consents and execution timing need to be managed together.
Clients instruct us where the commercial stakes are high and the margin for error is narrow: competitive bidding processes, control transactions, strategic acquisitions, private deals, shareholder arrangements, management participation structures and post-completion integration. We focus on the issues that affect value, risk allocation, control and closing certainty, while keeping the legal and commercial picture aligned.
We also advise on the corporate and transactional implications of Greece’s foreign direct investment screening regime, including screening assessments, filing strategy, transaction-timetable implications and notifications where required. For transactions in sensitive sectors, early FDI analysis is now part of disciplined deal planning and is integrated into the structure and timetable of the transaction.
Services
We advise buyers, sellers, boards, management teams, shareholders and investors on public and private M&A under Greek law. Our work includes share and asset acquisitions, disposals, auctions, tender offers, carve-outs, privatisations and cross-border transactions involving Greek companies, assets or operations. We support clients from transaction structuring and due diligence through negotiation, signing, completion and post-closing implementation.
We advise financial sponsors, investors, founders and management teams on buy-outs, growth equity investments, minority investments, venture financings, bolt-on acquisitions and exits. Our work includes investment structuring, due diligence, SPA and SHA negotiation, management participation arrangements, portfolio-company governance and exit planning.
We advise listed and privately held companies, boards, shareholders and management teams on corporate governance, directors’ duties, shareholder rights, board and shareholder approvals, general meetings, disclosure obligations and corporate housekeeping. We also provide ongoing Greek corporate-law support to international groups and Greek businesses on day-to-day corporate matters.
We advise on domestic and cross-border mergers, demergers, conversions, spin-offs, intra-group transfers and broader corporate restructuring projects. Our work focuses on aligning the legal structure with tax, accounting, regulatory, financing and operational requirements, particularly where Greek entities form part of a wider international group.
We advise on the structuring, negotiation and implementation of joint ventures and strategic alliances between Greek and foreign partners. Our work covers governance, reserved matters, funding obligations, transfer restrictions, deadlock mechanisms, exit rights, non-compete arrangements, competition-law issues and the operational arrangements needed after completion.
We advise on shareholder agreements, founder arrangements, investor rights, management incentives, governance frameworks, succession structures and exit arrangements. We focus on arrangements that are commercially workable, legally robust and capable of withstanding future investment rounds, changes of control, disputes or strategic exits
We advise foreign investors and transaction parties on Greece’s FDI screening regime under Law 5202/2025, including applicability assessments, filing strategy, preparation of notifications and coordination with the transaction timetable. The Greek regime has been further activated through implementing decisions and guidance, making FDI analysis increasingly relevant for transactions involving sensitive sectors such as energy, transport, digital infrastructure, defence, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and other strategic assets.
Featured Work
- Advised Enel on the €345 million sale of a 50% interest in its Greek renewable energy portfolio, a landmark energy-sector deal involving corporate, regulatory and project elements.
- Advised Hanwha Group on the due diligence of Bank of Athens and EKO, and on the Aspropyrgos Refinery privatisation process, involving cross-border investment analysis across the financial services, energy and industrial sectors in Greece.
- Advised on the privatisation of TRAINOSE S.A., including corporate restructuring and the sale to Ferrovie dello Stato S.p.A., the Italian state railway operator.
- Acted for the Liquidator of the Agricultural Bank of Greece on the privatisation of the Greek Sugar Company, involving complex corporate, regulatory and transaction-management issues across a state-controlled industrial group.
- Advised on the corporate restructuring of Dell Inc.’s Greek operations, including the Greek-law framework for a major reorganisation of the group’s local corporate presence.
- Advised Regal Petroleum plc on acquisitions in Greece, including the acquisition of a controlling shareholding in Kavalla Oil S.A. and related energy-sector corporate work.
- Advised on the BP and Mobil joint venture, including the outsourcing of financial services to Accenture.
- Acted for Docebo on the acquisition of E-Learning Industry, a cross-border technology-sector transaction.
- Advised Samsung on the Greek-law corporate elements of the strategic spin-off of its printer division to HP.
- Advised a Dubai-based real estate group on the acquisition of a société anonyme for hotel resort operations in Nea Chrysi Akti, Paros, involving corporate, real estate and regulatory workstreams.
- Advised a leading European travel and tourism group on the acquisition of multiple land plots on the island of Kos for resort development
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