Christina Papanikolopoulou

Christina heads Zepos & Yannopoulos finance and capital markets group. Christina has a very broad finance practice with an emphasis on cross border transactions. Her primary focus is structured finance, including a wide range of asset classes, such as NPLs, performing banking loans and other commercial (non-banking) receivables such as utilities and auto loan receivables. Christina counts most of the domestic and international banks that operate in Greece as clients and increasingly acts for a number of major investors and non-bank lenders in relation, primarily, to loan portfolio trades, but also in relation to the financing of their other equity and debt investments in Greece.

• Project Galvin: €328 million acquisition by Intrum of Piraeus Bank’s Restructuring Business Unit platform set to service a €27 billion NPE portfolio
• Project Galaxy - Advised Alpha Bank’s €10 billion HAPS securitisation of diversified non performing loan portfolios to Davinson Kempner
• Greek legal counsel to the mezzanine and junior notes investors consortium. Project Frontier involves the acquisition of 95% of the Mezzanine and Junior notes (the “Notes”) from a securitization backed by a ca. €6bn gross book value portfolio of non-performing exposures from National Bank of Greece.
• Project Energeia - acted for Public Power Corporation S.A. (PPC), Greece's incumbent electricity supplier on a securitisation providing PPC with funding of up to €200 million and finances performing consumer and corporate energy receivables up to 60 days past due.
• Advised PPC S.A., the largest generator and supplier of electricity in Greece, on its first international offering of €500 million 3.375% sustainability-linked senior notes due 2028.

• Hellenic Financial Law Association

• Southampton University School of law (LL.M.)
• University of Athens, Faculty of Law (LL.B.)