Antonis Gkiokas

M. Psylla - V. Vizas - G. Katrinakis Law Firm (PwC Legal Network) - Turnaround & Restructuring

Profile

Antonis Gkiokas is the Leader of Insolvency and Business Recovery practice in Greece. He is a seasoned legal practitioner with a track record on distressed M&A transactions, insolvency law, corporate law and restructurings. Furthermore, he advises financing institutions in formulating their portfolio recovery strategies. His exposure further extends to NPL and ordinary M&A transactions.

Antonis’ clientele and mandates are diverse including distressed assets investors, financing institutions, NPL servicers but also serving clients from industries such as Manufacturing, Defense, Energy & Construction, Retail, Food and Beverage. He was one of the select few insolvency experts mandated by the Greek Government to be part of the ad-hoc drafting committee which prepared the new insolvency framework for Greece.

From its inception, the Insolvency practice has been steadily growing, and expanding its transactional work, with significant exposure to corporate and financial sector industries, assuming diverse roles and mandates. It has achieved a track record in seminal transactions in the distressed assets and NPL sectors, navigating international investors to implement their strategic growth plans.

Firm Profile
M. Psylla – V. Vizas – G. Katrinakis Law Firm is a licensed Greek law firm established in 2009 and is part of the PwC Global Legal Network.

Our team has experience from large scale projects and transactions in all industries and we guarantee an integrated approach through our innovative solutions and legal expertise.

The transactional practice of PwC Greece’s Legal practice currently consists of fifteen (15) legal professionals covering the broader universe of corporate and financial law advice, developing around three key pillars: (i) acquisition transactions of listed and non-listed companies in Greece and abroad, (ii) transactional banking & finance projects and iii) Distressed M&A, insolvency and restructurings (involving contentious and non-contentious work). Our transactional teams are further complemented by our Labor Law, Real Estate Transactions and Regulatory practices which provide support in transactional and regulatory/compliance issues (including capital markets, regulatory compliance, takeover bids, AML and GDPR). We combine our offering with structuring services together with the PwC tax practice, as well as our PwC International network of legal partners, leveraging our presence in more than 95 jurisdictions and also complemented by the offerings of our PwC Advisory practice.