Lambadarios Law Firm

Address:
3, Stadiou str.
5th floor
Athens, 105 62
Greece

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+30 210 3231135

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Managing Partner: Constantinos Lambadarios
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Quick facts:

Number of lawyers: 33

Firm overview

Founded in 1863 and now under the stewardship of managing partner Constantinos Lambadarios, we have evolved from a family firm into a thoroughly modern, international practice with a dynamic, problem-solving mindset, while retaining the traditional qualities of respect, integrity and personal service.

With a number of top-ranked partners and a highly skilled team of lawyers, we are recognized as one of the leading Greek firms in all of our key practices – M&A, Banking & Finance, Project Finance, Ligation & Dispute Resolution, Real Estate, Energy, Capital Markets, and TMT and Intellectual Property in Greece. Within these fields, we have advised on many of the most significant transactions and commercial developments in Greece’s recent past, from privatizations of state-owned utilities and major energy and infrastructure projects to cases involving emerging internet law and anti-trust actions.

Key transactional practices

Asset finance
Banking
Capital markets: Debt
Capital markets: Derivatives
Capital markets: Equity
Capital markets: High yield
Competition
Covered bonds
Financial restructuring
Financial services regulatory
Hedge funds
Investment funds
M&A
PPP/PFI
Private equity
Private equity funds
Project bonds
Project development
Project finance
Real estate finance
Real estate funds
Restructuring and insolvency
Securitisation

Key practice contacts and recent transactional highlights

Mergers & Acquisitions

Constantinos Lambadarios
c.lambadarios@lambadarioslaw.gr

Melina Katsimi
m.katsimi@lambadarioslaw.gr

Advising the Greek State on the signing of an amended investment agreement with Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold. The revised contract represents the largest FDI in Greece over the last decade and one of the largest in the country’s FDI history. It was awarded ‘Transaction of the Year’ at the recent BOUSSIAS Business Law Awards in Greece (https://www.businesslawawards.gr).
Advising KKR on its effort to acquire a 49% stake in HEDNO through its participation in the relevant public bidding process. As the target asset is operator of the country’s energy network, conditions of the tender including strict controls on the basis of national security.

Banking & Finance

Prokopis Dimitriadis
p.dimitriadis@lambadarioslaw.gr

Yannis Kourniotis
y.kourniotis@lambadarioslaw.gr

Advising the four Greek systemic banks on a capital injection of four bilateral bond loans as well as a RCF funding into Aegean Airlines. This involved four months of discussions with the banks to finalise four separate draft versions of the bilateral bond loans.
Advising Black Sea Trade & Development Bank on a large financing to state-owned Public Power Corporation SA, which was about to go into administration. This involved a state guarantee on the debt, which is uncommon and leads to complexities over perfection and security.

Capital Markets

Kostas Botopoulos
k.botopoulos@lambadarioslaw.gr

Prokopis Dimitriadis
p.dimitriadis@lambadarioslaw.gr

our practice was busy on a number of cross-border financing structures, privately placed bond/note issuances, and establishing Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs). A highlight included advising ELLAKTROR, a listed company in the Athens Stock Exchange in its latest share capital increase of €120mn, which included the issue of a prospectus.

Project Development

Yannis Kourniotis
y.kourniotis@lambadarioslaw.gr

Advising the privatisation fund, HRADF, on its granting to third parties of the concession right over the Attica Motorway for a period of up to 25 years. The €2 billion Athens Ring Road Project is the largest motorway project in Greece and one of the largest co-financed road projects in Europe.