Eleven SEE Legal Partners among IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2021
Eleven SEE Legal Partners among IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2021
SEE Legal Group is proud to announce that 11 female partners have been recognised by the special edition of Europe, Middle East and Africa IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2021 as part of the leading female transaction lawyers in the world.
Congratulations to our colleagues Ioanna Antonopoulou (Kyriakides Georgopoulos Law Firm, Greece), Tatjana Shishkovska (Polenak Law Firm, North Macedonia), Adina Chilim-Dumitriu, Ruxandra Maria Bologa, Adriana Gaspar, and Alina Radu (Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen, Romania), Tijana Kojovic (BDK Advokati, Serbia), Mia Kalas, Natasa Pipan Nahtigal and Nina Selih (SELIH & PARTNERJI Law Firm, Slovenia), and Bihter Bozbay (Kolcuoglu Demirkan Kocakli Attorneys at Law, Turkey).
IFLR1000 Women Leaders are the most prominent female lawyers working in the areas of law researched by IFLR1000 (financial and corporate transactions and contract, licensing and regulatory project work) within their jurisdictions. This is an elite group of lawyers with outstanding reputations within their markets who either have expertise and experience of working on complex deals, or who have risen to hold leadership roles with their firms or their practices.
The bios of the IFLR1000 ranked 11 SEE Legal Women Leaders are available below:
Ioanna Antonopoulou
Ioanna is a partner at KG Law Firm specialising in project finance (including PPP transactions) and refinancing projects. Her expertise covers the full spectrum of legal advisory in the banking sector, focusing on corporate and project finance (mostly lender side) in the private and public sector (including privatisations and PPPs) in the energy and infrastructure projects as well as real estate. Ioanna has advised various financial institutions (Greek systemic banks and international banks including IFIs) in a number of complex and demanding transactions.
Tatjana Shishkovska
Tatjana is а partner at Polenak Law Firm with over 10 years of experience in projects focused on M&A, project finance, cross-border secured transactions, and financial arrangements of IFIs. She has corporate law background and academic interest in security agent matters and syndicated lending under the standard LMA agreements in Macedonian legal environment that gives her an excellent track record and know-how for transactions involving financing structures.
Adina Chilim-Dumitriu
Adina has over 23 years of experience in the legal profession and co-heads NNDKP’s Corporate M&A and Public Procurement and PPP practices. She is renowned for handling large domestic and cross-border M&A deals and for advising on complex corporate/contractual projects. Adina has robust experience with commercial transactions and contracts structuring, drafting and negotiation and in-depth expertise in structuring and negotiating public contracts. She is particularly experienced in providing advice on matters requiring technical knowledge and abilities such as the ones in heavily regulated sectors as public procurement or telecommunications.
Ruxandra Maria Bologa
Ruxandra is a highly versed corporate lawyer with over 19 years of experience. She co-heads NNDKP’s Corporate/M&A practices Energy and Natural Resources. Ruxandra has been coordinating and involved in major M&A projects dealing with complex regulatory, corporate and commercial law issues, including in the successful completion of some of the largest/industry benchmark transactions rolled out in Romania. She has particular expertise in highly regulated sectors such as energy, with a specific focus on oil and gas, and has advised on a wide range of projects in the natural resources field, including mining.
Adriana Gaspar
Adriana is co-head of NNDKP’s Corporate/M&A and Public Procurement practices and is unanimously and independently recognised as an elite business lawyer. With over 28 years of activity in the legal field, she has earned undisputed respect for her wide-ranging experience in structuring cross-border and domestic transactions and investments as well as her valuable contribution to landmark projects. Adriana has also advised public and private sector clients in relation to some of the largest Romanian transport infrastructure development and financing projects, particularly in the areas of road infrastructure (motorway concession) and port/airport infrastructure.
Alina Radu
Alina is a seasoned banking and finance specialist with over 23 years of experience and heads NNDKP’s Banking and Finance practice. She contributed to and coordinated a wide range of sophisticated projects, including complex mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector, financing transactions, sales/acquisitions and development of real estate projects, complex contractual arrangements. Alina has assisted clients in more than EUR 5 billion worth of successfully closed finance transactions, advising on multi-jurisdictional or domestic financing and refinancing facilities and providing support on complex financing and security structures.
Tijana Kojovic
Tijana is founding and managing partner of BDK Advokati. Her legal background is diverse, and she is active in the firm’s transactional, antitrust and dispute resolution work, managing complex projects and personally advising on strategic matters. Tijana has particularly outstanding expertise in international arbitration. She has rich experience in banking and finance, as well as in insolvency law. Tijana offers specialised regulatory advice and transactional support in the areas of banking and other financial services, capital markets, derivatives and structured finance products, and insolvency and restructuring.
Mia Kalas
Mia is a partner at SELIH & PARTNERJI Law Firm and heads the firm’s Banking & Finance practice. She has extensive experience in assisting Slovenian and international lenders and borrowers, including banks and other financial institutions, corporations from a wide range of business sectors and institutional investors. Mia advises on secured and unsecured term loan facilities, cross-border and local syndications, acquisition financing, real estate financing, project financing, netting opinions, and other financial services.
Natasa Pipan Nahtigal
Natasa is a partner at SELIH & PARTNERJI Law Firm with more than 20 years of experience in advising multinationals on M&A and other complex cross-border transactions, as well as on corporate governance issues. She heads the firm’s continuously growing M&A practice, as well as the Competition and Antitrust department. Her multidisciplinary practice includes expertise in intellectual property, banking and finance, and capital markets.
Nina Selih
Nina is a managing partner of SELIH & PARTNERJI Law Firm with more than 30 years of experience in advising domestic and international clients of various industry sectors in several practice areas. She heads the firm’s Corporate and Commercial practice and is involved in most of the complex projects the firm is handling. Nina mostly works on corporate governance and regulatory issues, as well as corporate restructurings, and is regularly involved in dispute resolution cases.
Bihter Bozbay
Bihter is partner and head of Kolcuoglu Demirkan Kocakli Attorneys at Law’s Banking and Finance practice group. She has significant experience in M&A, joint ventures, corporate and finance transactions. Bihter advises leading private equity firms and international and local corporations in these areas of law and leads the firm’s M&A team in numerous transactions involving various sectors. She assists her clients in all aspects of their investments, from entry to exit and any add-on investments, both in Turkey and abroad. Bihter’s transactional experience sees her advising across a variety of attractive sectors, including entertainment, technology, insurance, food production, packaging and manufacturing.
SEE Legal Group congratulates all other women leaders recognised in the guide.
SEE Legal Group is proud to announce that 11 female partners have been recognised by the special edition of Europe, Middle East and Africa IFLR1000 Women Leaders 2021 as part of the leading female transaction lawyers in the world.
Congratulations to our colleagues Ioanna Antonopoulou (Kyriakides Georgopoulos Law Firm, Greece), Tatjana Shishkovska (Polenak Law Firm, North Macedonia), Adina Chilim-Dumitriu, Ruxandra Maria Bologa, Adriana Gaspar, and Alina Radu (Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen, Romania), Tijana Kojovic (BDK Advokati, Serbia), Mia Kalas, Natasa Pipan Nahtigal and Nina Selih (SELIH & PARTNERJI Law Firm, Slovenia), and Bihter Bozbay (Kolcuoglu Demirkan Kocakli Attorneys at Law, Turkey).
IFLR1000 Women Leaders are the most prominent female lawyers working in the areas of law researched by IFLR1000 (financial and corporate transactions and contract, licensing and regulatory project work) within their jurisdictions. This is an elite group of lawyers with outstanding reputations within their markets who either have expertise and experience of working on complex deals, or who have risen to hold leadership roles with their firms or their practices.
The bios of the IFLR1000 ranked 11 SEE Legal Women Leaders are available below:
Ioanna Antonopoulou
Ioanna is a partner at KG Law Firm specialising in project finance (including PPP transactions) and refinancing projects. Her expertise covers the full spectrum of legal advisory in the banking sector, focusing on corporate and project finance (mostly lender side) in the private and public sector (including privatisations and PPPs) in the energy and infrastructure projects as well as real estate. Ioanna has advised various financial institutions (Greek systemic banks and international banks including IFIs) in a number of complex and demanding transactions.
Tatjana Shishkovska
Tatjana is а partner at Polenak Law Firm with over 10 years of experience in projects focused on M&A, project finance, cross-border secured transactions, and financial arrangements of IFIs. She has corporate law background and academic interest in security agent matters and syndicated lending under the standard LMA agreements in Macedonian legal environment that gives her an excellent track record and know-how for transactions involving financing structures.
Adina Chilim-Dumitriu
Adina has over 23 years of experience in the legal profession and co-heads NNDKP’s Corporate M&A and Public Procurement and PPP practices. She is renowned for handling large domestic and cross-border M&A deals and for advising on complex corporate/contractual projects. Adina has robust experience with commercial transactions and contracts structuring, drafting and negotiation and in-depth expertise in structuring and negotiating public contracts. She is particularly experienced in providing advice on matters requiring technical knowledge and abilities such as the ones in heavily regulated sectors as public procurement or telecommunications.
Ruxandra Maria Bologa
Ruxandra is a highly versed corporate lawyer with over 19 years of experience. She co-heads NNDKP’s Corporate/M&A practices Energy and Natural Resources. Ruxandra has been coordinating and involved in major M&A projects dealing with complex regulatory, corporate and commercial law issues, including in the successful completion of some of the largest/industry benchmark transactions rolled out in Romania. She has particular expertise in highly regulated sectors such as energy, with a specific focus on oil and gas, and has advised on a wide range of projects in the natural resources field, including mining.
Adriana Gaspar
Adriana is co-head of NNDKP’s Corporate/M&A and Public Procurement practices and is unanimously and independently recognised as an elite business lawyer. With over 28 years of activity in the legal field, she has earned undisputed respect for her wide-ranging experience in structuring cross-border and domestic transactions and investments as well as her valuable contribution to landmark projects. Adriana has also advised public and private sector clients in relation to some of the largest Romanian transport infrastructure development and financing projects, particularly in the areas of road infrastructure (motorway concession) and port/airport infrastructure.
Alina Radu
Alina is a seasoned banking and finance specialist with over 23 years of experience and heads NNDKP’s Banking and Finance practice. She contributed to and coordinated a wide range of sophisticated projects, including complex mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector, financing transactions, sales/acquisitions and development of real estate projects, complex contractual arrangements. Alina has assisted clients in more than EUR 5 billion worth of successfully closed finance transactions, advising on multi-jurisdictional or domestic financing and refinancing facilities and providing support on complex financing and security structures.
Tijana Kojovic
Tijana is founding and managing partner of BDK Advokati. Her legal background is diverse, and she is active in the firm’s transactional, antitrust and dispute resolution work, managing complex projects and personally advising on strategic matters. Tijana has particularly outstanding expertise in international arbitration. She has rich experience in banking and finance, as well as in insolvency law. Tijana offers specialised regulatory advice and transactional support in the areas of banking and other financial services, capital markets, derivatives and structured finance products, and insolvency and restructuring.
Mia Kalas
Mia is a partner at SELIH & PARTNERJI Law Firm and heads the firm’s Banking & Finance practice. She has extensive experience in assisting Slovenian and international lenders and borrowers, including banks and other financial institutions, corporations from a wide range of business sectors and institutional investors. Mia advises on secured and unsecured term loan facilities, cross-border and local syndications, acquisition financing, real estate financing, project financing, netting opinions, and other financial services.
Natasa Pipan Nahtigal
Natasa is a partner at SELIH & PARTNERJI Law Firm with more than 20 years of experience in advising multinationals on M&A and other complex cross-border transactions, as well as on corporate governance issues. She heads the firm’s continuously growing M&A practice, as well as the Competition and Antitrust department. Her multidisciplinary practice includes expertise in intellectual property, banking and finance, and capital markets.
Nina Selih
Nina is a managing partner of SELIH & PARTNERJI Law Firm with more than 30 years of experience in advising domestic and international clients of various industry sectors in several practice areas. She heads the firm’s Corporate and Commercial practice and is involved in most of the complex projects the firm is handling. Nina mostly works on corporate governance and regulatory issues, as well as corporate restructurings, and is regularly involved in dispute resolution cases.
Bihter Bozbay
Bihter is partner and head of Kolcuoglu Demirkan Kocakli Attorneys at Law’s Banking and Finance practice group. She has significant experience in M&A, joint ventures, corporate and finance transactions. Bihter advises leading private equity firms and international and local corporations in these areas of law and leads the firm’s M&A team in numerous transactions involving various sectors. She assists her clients in all aspects of their investments, from entry to exit and any add-on investments, both in Turkey and abroad. Bihter’s transactional experience sees her advising across a variety of attractive sectors, including entertainment, technology, insurance, food production, packaging and manufacturing.
SEE Legal Group congratulates all other women leaders recognised in the guide.
