Alexios Andriopoulos has joined Welcome Pickups as the company's new Head of Legal & Compliance.

Greece continues to ride a wave of investment interest, with momentum building across real estate, hospitality, renewables, and increasingly, digital infrastructure, according to AKL Partner Kostas Fatsis, who walks us through the latest legislative developments shaping the market, including energy reforms, FDI screening, and judicial modernization.

Papapolitis & Papapolitis has advised UK-based Dukes Education on its acquisition of Mandoulides Schools from Mandoulides Holding Societe Anonyme. Bernitsas advised the sellers.

Bernitsas has advised Piraeus Bank on the issuance and offering of EUR 500 million green senior preferred notes due 2028, targeting both international and Greek institutional investors.

Anagnostopoulos has successfully represented a former director of Werfen Hellas before the Athens Criminal Court, which cleared the defendant of healthcare fraud charges related to product pricing practices for healthcare organizations.

Kyriakides Georgopoulos has advised Frigoglass SAIC on its EUR 10.2 million cross-border acquisition of Provisiona Iberia and Serlusa Refrigerantes, based in Spain and Portugal, respectively. 

Greece-based FNG Law Firm has joined Drakopoulos with Petros Fragkiskos and Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos Giannidis becoming Drakopoulos Equity Partners and Achilleas Papadopoulos joining as Partner. 

Koutalidis has advised ABO Energy on the sale of ABO Hellas, along with six affiliated entities and a 1.5-gigawatt renewable energy portfolio, to Helleniq Renewables.

Bernitsas has advised the Vivartia Group on the sale of 100% of its shares in Dodoni, held through Nutrico, to Hellenic Dairies.

Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners has promoted George Alexandris to Partner.

Bernitsas has advised Piraeus Bank as the senior loan noteholder and senior facility agent on a EUR 200 million private securitization of car lease receivables originated by Olympic Commercial and Tourist Enterprises Single Member.

Koutalidis has advised Alpha Bank on its successful reverse merger by absorption of its parent entity Alpha Services and Holdings, and the subsequent listing of Alpha Bank’s new shares on the Main Market of the Athens Exchange.

Kyriakides Georgopoulos has advised Bally’s Corporation on its EUR 2.7 billion sale of its International Interactive Business to Intralot. Papapolitis & Papapolitis advised Intralot.

Bernitsas has advised Attica Bank on the establishment of a EUR 1 billion medium-term note Program and the subsequent issuance of EUR 100 million additional tier 1 notes and EUR 150 million tier 2 subordinated notes.

Bernitsas has advised Morgan Stanley Europe and the other managers on the issuance and offering of EUR 500 million fixed-rate reset additional tier 1 perpetual contingent temporary write-down notes by Eurobank Ergasias Services and Holdings.

DLA Piper has advised Optima Bank on the establishment of its EUR 500 million Euro Medium Term Note Program and the inaugural issuance of EUR 150 million Tier 2 Reset Notes due 2035.

As AI increasingly intersects with nearly every dimension of digital security, so too does the consciousness of creating conditions to use it in a secure cyberspace. As Space Hellas Group General Counsel Konstantinos Argyropoulos puts it, “there is an acceleration in the way AI interfaces with cybersecurity,” pointing to an emerging arms race in which malicious actors and defenders alike adopt increasingly automated tactics. Argyropoulos shared his thoughts on this during the CEE Legal Matters GC Summit 2025 in Prague.

Bernitsas has advised Georg Duncker on its acquisition of Fortius Risk Solutions and National Insurance Brokers.