Christina Giagka
Partner Athens
Christina is a Partner in the Assets & Structured Finance Group.
She acts for a large number of local and international lending banks, syndicates, private funds, shipowning companies and trading houses on a wide range of cross border transactions.
She advises clients on all aspects of ship finance transactions including loan facilities and security packages, sale and leaseback deals, loan restructurings, shipbuilding contracts, refund guarantees and sale and purchase agreements.
She has also advised major Greek companies (including Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications S.A. and Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA) on significant project financing transactions.
Christina is recommended as a leading expert in asset finance by legal directories Legal 500 EMEA where she has been listed as a rising star in for years 2021, 2022 and 2023. They describe her as a “hardworking and commercially minded” lawyer who has ”great knowledge of the subject area” and “stands out for her qualities and services.”
- Advising Piraeus Bank on its first US$16.85m sustainability-linked loan to a subsidiary of the Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp.
- Advising Cosmote S.A. on a €300m loan financing provided by the European Investment Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
- PressWFW advises DSF on a US$100m term loan facility for Diana Shipping
- AwardTwo WFW deals win at Business Law Awards 2022
- PressWFW advises OTE on €150m loan agreement to finance FTTH rollout in Greece
- PressWFW promotes eight lawyers to partnership for 2022
- PressWFW advises Piraeus Bank on its first sustainability-linked loan