Managing Partner

Athens

+30 210 3318170

Notable practitioner

Greek
English


Bar admissions:

Greece

Jurisdictions:

Greece

Practice areas:

M&A


Dep. Managing Partner at “Bahas, Gramatidis and Partners” (BGP) Law Firm. Leader Partner of BGP’s Commercial Section. With attention to detail, project management capabilities and over 30-year experience, he has assisted numerous international and Greek clients navigate a variety of complex commercial deals and resolve highly demanding disputes. His essential work mottos are: meticulous preparation, careful collection and scrupulous examination of information and data, exhaustive planning, diligence, persistence and flexibility in proceeding, pre-emptive approach, business orientation, seeking actual interests and alternative solutions. Articles on topics of his practice area are regularly published in international journals.

  • Advising Taisho Pharmaceuticals Holdings Co., Ltd./ Assisted Taisho Pharmaceuticals Holdings Co., Ltd. on the bid process for the acquisition of UPSA SAS from Bristol-Myers Squibb Company and the consummation of the acquisition.
  • Advising Carestream Health, Inc./ Assisted Carestream Health, Inc. with the sale of it’s Healthcare Information Systems to Philips Healthcare Informatics, Inc.
  • Advising ATTICA BANK /Project Kairos/ Follow up of the securitization of an NPL portfolio of €700.5 million by transfer to an SPV which in turn issued €343,25 million senior notes and €357,25 million junior notes – Sale by Attica Bank  of 95% of the Class B Notes to TOCU Europe II S.ar.l, which undertook the servicing of the complete securitized NPL portfolio.
  • The acquisition of the Greek railway company TRENOSE by Ferrovie, Italia.
  • The acquisition of EESTYY (the state owned company of railway equipment and material by TRENOSE.

  • Competition
  • M&A
  • Private equity
  • Project development
  • Securitisation

  • Banking
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Financial services
  • Investment management

  • Piraeus Bar Association

  • Piraeus Bar Association
  • Greek Commercial Lawyers' Association
  • Competition Law Partnership
  • Greek Association for Arbitration
  • Greek Association of Law & Economics
  • Hellenic Association for Financial Law
  • International Bar Association (IBA - SBL Committees C, L, M, S)
  • International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC - www.iadclaw.org)
  • European Justice Forum (EJF), Brussels (www.europeanjusticeforum.org), Correspondent for Greece
  • DRI Europe, the European Branch of DRI International (www.dri.org), Country Chair - Greece
  • CEDR Exchange Network Member (www.cedr.com)
  • The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) – Associate (www.ciarb.org)
  • Swiss Chinese Law Association (SCLA) (www.cnsla.org)
  • Federation of Integrated Conflict Management (FICM-MCN) (www.ficmecosystem.com)
  • EODID Athens Mediation and Arbitration Organization (www.eodid.org)
  • Hellenic Union of Mediators - EED (eledi.gr)
  • Greek Mediators’ Association - SEDI (www.sedi.gr)

  • UK / Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), London (Accredited Mediator).
  • Greece / Central Mediation Committee (KED), Ministry of Justice, Athens (Accredited Mediator)
  • Law School of the University of Athens (LL.B - magna cum laude)
  • University of London, Queen Mary College (LL.M – Subject Group: Commercial and Corporate Law)
  • Various courses on finance, accounting, analysis of financial statements, corporate governance and related issues