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Maria Nefeli is a financial services lawyer admitted to the Law Society of England & Wales and the Athens Bar. She has an expertise in corporate, finance and capital markets transactions involving listed and private companies, in particular on large scale deals carried out in the context of high impact regulatory changes. She is highly experienced in private placements and IPOs, mergers and acquisitions of listed companies and private equity transactions, advising international and Greek funds and financial institutions on the initial structuring and throughout the lifetime of their investment period. Maria Nefeli heads up the Firm’s Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) department and advises extensively on ESG legislation with a focus on the laws affecting firms in the financial services sector.
Maria Nefeli joined Bernitsas from a tier 1 financial services and markets team in the City of London and was seconded to a global investment firm to implement European ESG legislation. Maria Nefeli holds an LLB (Hons) from University College London (UCL) and an MBA from INSEAD.