Panos Tsezos

Primary Focus & Experience

Panos’ primary focus is on capital markets transactions, having advised issuers and underwriters on equity and debt capital markets and liability management transactions.

Panos’ experience includes advising:

• Channel VAS Investments Limited in connection with Optasia’s initial public offering and Johannesburg Stock Exchange listing;
• Intralot S.A. in connection with its €2.7 billion acquisition of Bally’s International Interactive Business and related debt and equity offerings;
• The financial advisor in connection with the successful amendment and restatement of Graanul Invest’s Sustainability-Linked Senior Secured Notes due 2026;
• Punch Pubs on its £640 million high yield bond offering and refinancing;
• The Underwriters in connection with NatWest Markets Plc's offering of £750 million additional tier 1 capital notes;
• Pick n Pay Stores Limited on its successful ZAR4 billion rights offering;
• Boxer Retail Limited and its parent company, in connection with Boxer’s ZAR8.5 billion initial public offering and Johannesburg Stock Exchange listing;
• the joint global coordinators and managers, consisting of Citigroup, Danske Bank, Nordea, SEB, BNP PARIBAS and HSBC, in connection with the demerger of Svitzer Group A/S from A.P. Møller-Mærsk A/S and its listing on Nasdaq Copenhagen. On its first day of trading, Svitzer achieved a market capitalization of DKK 6 billion;
• in connection with Transcom’s private placement;
• the Underwriters in connection with the divestment of Hellenic Financial Stability Fund’s 22% stake in National Bank of Greece S.A.;
• the Initial Purchasers in connection with International Design Group S.p.A.’s high yield bond offering and refinancing;
• Jaguar Land Rover on its tender offers;
• Globalworth on its tender offers; 
• the Initial Purchasers and Lenders in connection with Benteler International AG’s Inaugural €975 million (equivalent) high-yield bond offering and €810 million term loan to achieve landmark long-term refinancing;
• Cedacri on its issuance of €275 million Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes;
• the Initial Purchasers in connection with Italmatch Chemicals S.p.A.’s €690 million high yield bond offering and refinancing;
• Cedacri on its debut issuance of €650 million Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes to finance the acquisition of Cedacri;
• Punch Pubs on its £600 million debut bond offering;
• Jaguar Land Rover on a $1.1 billion (equivalent) Senior Notes offering;
• Public Power Corporation S.A. in connection with its landmark €1.35 billion share capital increase; and
• the Initial Purchasers in connection with SIG plc’s £300 million debut high yield bond offering.