Dimitrios Lyratzakis

Dimitrios is an associate in the Firm's Capital Markets and Financial Restructuring and Insolvency practices. He is currently based in London and was previously based in New York.

His practice focuses on a broad range of complex financial restructuring and capital markets transactions, and he has extensive experience in sovereign and sub-sovereign debt restructuring and liability management transactions, having advised on the restructuring of over $170 billion of debt.

Dimitrios is currently advising the largest bondholder groups in the debt restructurings of Sri Lanka and Lebanon, having recently advised the bondholder groups in the debt restructurings of Argentina, Ecuador, the Province of Buenos Aires, and several other Argentine provinces. Dimitrios is also advising the Republic of Suriname and Zambia, among others, in relation to the sovereigns' debt restructurings, while he most recently advised Ukraine in relation to its debt management transaction.

Among other publications, he is the co-author (with Ian Clark) of "Towards a More Robust Sovereign Debt Restructuring Architecture: Innovations from Ecuador and Argentina," published in the Capital Markets Law Journal (Oxford University Press).

Dimitrios holds a JD and LLM from Duke Law School, where he was a Salzburg Cutler Fellow and Articles Editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, a Master's in International Economics and Finance from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS), and a BA in International Affairs and Philosophy from the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.