Securities

MOUSSAS & TSIBRIS advise on all types of securities transactions, including trading transactions, sale agreements and the security provided for such agreements. We have assisted a number of companies to fulfill the requirements for listing on the Athens Exchange, including performing due diligence. Our lawyers advise our clients in relation to all types of financial instrument, including debt securities, bonds and derivatives. We have developed a niche practice in advising securities firms on the contracts and trades they enter into. Michael Tsibris is one of the four lawyers who sit on the Council of Legal Advisors of the Athens Exchange, a body summoned by the Chairman of the Exchange to give opinions on difficult areas of law.

Practice Highlights

• Assisting a plastics producer to fulfill the requirements for listing on the Athens Exchange, including performing due diligence on their behalf
• Advising a large international banking group on the transactions into which it enters with Greek counterparties on the Athens Exchange, including in relation to listed and unlisted derivatives, repos, swaps and internet transactions
• Assisting the real estate subsidiary of one of the major Greek private sector banks to fulfill the requirements for listing on the Athens Exchange
• Advising one of the foremost Greek construction groups with a large presence in the USA in relation to its day to day stock exchange activities
• Representing a leading Greek metals trading group and a listed metals construction company in its share capital increases
• Acting on behalf of one of the foremost Greek private sector banks in applications for listings on the Athens Exchange and share capital increases of various companies including its real estate subsidiary, clothing chains, and a producer and distributor of metals products
• Advising one of the largest companies in Greece engaged in metals trading and businesses ancillary to metallurgy on an ongoing basis in relation to trades in metals, including metal hedging agreements

Our clients in this practice area are from a wide range of industries including Clothing and Manufacturing, Construction, Financial, Minerals and Mining, Plastics and Packaging, Telecommunications and Transport.