Katerina Simopoulou
Managing Partner, SIMOPOULOU Legal & Compliance
Katerina Simopoulou is the Managing Partner of SIMOPOULOU Legal & Compliance. With more than 25 years of experience in Greece, Luxembourg and Switzerland in banking, finance, insurance financial regulation and practice, she advises a wide range of financial sector clients — including banks, investment firms, insurance companies, asset managers and FinTech companies on complex legal, regulatory and compliance matters.
Katerina also serves as Legal Counsel to the Ministry of Economy & Finance, General Secretariat for the Financial Sector and Private Debt Management, contributing to national level financial regulatory initiatives on insolvency, banking and financial matters such as the Insolvency Law and Credit Scoring legislation.
Before founding SIMOPOULOU Legal & Compliance, she held senior leadership roles in major international and domestic institutions:
Partner, Banking, Finance and Capital Markets Practice, Andersen Legal, Greece.
Experience highlights: Founded the banking, finance and capital markets practice of the firm and provided legal advice to insurance companies,
asset management companies, EU and non-EU financial institutions, corporate groups.
Senior Compliance Executive, Credit Suisse AG, Zurich, Switzerland.
Experience highlights: Management of the Compliance Coverage of Credit Suisse AG (CS) in Ζurich in relation to its international activities in Greece and Cyprus; compliance assessment of business, regulatory and tax risks for Market Area Greece and Cyprus in international projects.
Head of Legal & Compliance, Credit Suisse Luxembourg S.A., Athens Branch.
Experience highlights: Establishment and management of the Legal and Compliance unit of the Credit Suisse (Luxembourg) S.A. Athens Branch; Compliance frameworks operation and establishment; Primary point of contact for Supervisory Authorities in Greece and Luxembourg.
Inhouse Legal Counsel, Eurobank S.A., Investment Banking & Capital Markets.
Experience highlights: Provision of legal advice and support to the Bank’s Investment Banking, Private Banking, Compliance, Asset Management, Custody and Global and Financial Institutions Division; Negotiation of ISDA Master Agreements, GMRAs, bespoke OTC transactions and UCITS distribution agreements.