Panos Apostolidis

PANOS APOSTOLIDIS advises private equity sponsors, issuers, underwriters, and other financial institutions on a broad range of debt and equity capital markets transactions and U.S. securities law matters. With a particular focus on high-yield debt offerings, he has experience advising on complex cross-border financing transactions, liability management exercises, and financial restructurings. 

Panos recent experience includes advising:

• Private equity portfolio companies across the healthcare, market research, software, and infrastructure sectors on debut and follow-on high-yield bond offerings.
• Private equity sponsors on acquisition financings, bridge-to-bond structures, and financing commitment papers for competitive auction processes.
• Corporate issuers in the automotive, energy, utilities, refining, and lottery sectors on high-yield bond offerings, refinancing transactions, sustainability-linked notes, and related liability management matters.
• Initial purchasers and institutional investors on high-yield bond offerings and privately placed bond issuances by major European telecommunications companies and companies in the hospitality, credit servicing, consumer products, shipping and logistics, and human capital services sectors.
• Initial purchasers on the establishment of a global medium-term note program and a project sukuk issuance by one of the world’s largest integrated energy and chemicals companies.
• Issuers, sponsors, and creditor groups on tender offers, consent solicitations, exchange offers, debt-for-debt and debt-for-equity exchanges, recapitalizations, and other liability management transactions.
• Companies and creditor groups on complex cross-border restructurings across the airline, food retail, biopharmaceutical, insurance, broadband, facilities management, and industrial manufacturing sectors, including Chapter 11 and European restructuring proceedings.

The above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.

• New York State Bar Associate