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Bernitsas Law is a market leader in the provision of commercial law services in Greece and one of the largest firms in the country.
Bernitsas Law has won the prestigious Greece Firm of the Year Award and Partner Christos Paraskevopoulos has won Greece Lawyer of the Year Award at the Benchmark Litigation Europe Awards 2019. Benchmark Litigation is the definitive guide to the market’s leading litigation firms and lawyers and exclusively covers the litigation and disputes market in North […]
Bernitsas Law is a sponsor of Nomiki Bibliothiki’s 3rd Competition Law Conference “Bringing Order in a Jungle”, under the auspices of the Competition Commission the Jean Monnet Chair on Competition, Energy & Transport and institutional support of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises. The event is taking place on 10th May in Athens. Panayotis Bernitsas is […]
Bernitsas Law has won the prestigious Most Innovative Law Firm of the Year: Greece Award at the 20th International Financial Law Review Annual European Awards. The IFLR is the market-leading financial law publication for lawyers in financial institutions, corporates and private practice. Its annual Awards celebrate innovation, novelty and complexity – whether structural or regulatory. […]
Bernitsas Law acted as lead counsel to a major Greek Shipping Group on the $133m refinancing of dry bulk carriers registered under the Cyprus flag. A leading international credit institution acted as senior lender and bondholder. The transaction involved many jurisdictions, both in terms of the place of incorporation of the various corporate obligors (Cyprus, […]
Bernitsas Law is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of EODID Athens Vis Pre-Moot taking place in Athens on 15 – 17 March 2019. This is the 1st Pre-Moot to take place in Athens and is organised in the context of the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Competition, the largest international competition […]
Bernitsas Law has been shortlisted for awards in three categories at the IFLR European Awards 2019. The winners will be announced at the IFLR European Awards Ceremony on 4 April 2019. The awards are: Debt & equity-linked deal of the year category Eurobank Ergasias share redemption Structured finance and securitisation deal of the year category […]
Bernitsas Law is proud to be a sponsor of the team which represented the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens at the Regional Finals of the 2019 European Law Moot Court, which took place in Madrid at San Pablo University on 14-17 February.
Bernitsas Law is proud to support the important work of the Foundation for Education and European Culture (IPEP) once again this year. Since its establishment in 2006, IPEP has awarded over 318 scholarships and grants to young scientists and postgrad students, making it possible for them to further their education and conduct important research.
Bernitsas Law advised a consortium of international financing institutions including the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on the project financing of Trans Adriatic Pipeline‘s development of a c.871km gas pipeline connecting to the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline from the Greek Turkish border and running through Greece and Albania to Italy, connecting with […]
Bernitsas Law advised Apollo Global Management in the acquisition from Alpha Bank by a consortium of funds managed by Apollo affiliates and IFC of a mixed pool of non-performing loans (the NPL Portfolio) to Greek SMEs mainly secured by real estate assets, and a pool of real estate assets repossessed by Alpha Bank and Alpha […]