Despina Doxaki

Despina was born in 1968. She is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Ethniko and Kapodistriako University of Athens and holder of an LLM in European Law from the Institute of European Studies of the Free University in Brussels. She has an accumulated professional experience of over 26 years in the area of international cross-border transactions primarily advising and representing commercial, institutional, development, and supranational banks and credit institutions.

She specializes in structuring and negotiations of complex financings and funding such as (i) structured finance (EMTN, bond and note issuances, senior sub. secured and unsecured, securitizations, treasury transactions (IRS, SWAP), etc), (ii) project finance &privatizations (in all industry sectors such as energy RES, thermal, energy efficiency, waste management, Oil&Gas (upstream/downstream), mining, infra (ports, roads, airports, bridges, marinas), utilities (hospitals, schools, police premises), real estate (shopping malls), leisure (hotels)) either in private projects or via PPP/PFI, (iii) corporate finance, debt, and equity raising (IPO and capital market transactions) (iv) debt restructurings and refinancing.

During her carrier she has worked with the EU Commission, KPMG, Alpha Bank AE, CIS, and the last 15 years in legal private practice with KG Law Firm, in Brussels with Stanbrook&Hooper (McDermont&Ellis) Law Firm and international law firms in the London Chadbourne/NRF, Shearman and Milbank. She currently holds the position of Chief Legal Counsel of the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund. She has working in Athens London and Brussels, is Greek native speaker and fluent in English and French.