Xenia Kazoli

Xenia Kazoli

Xenia Kazoli is a special advisor at Nestor Advisors, focusing on regulatory reform and corporate governance.

Xenia is an experienced international lawyer, admitted to the bars of New York, Paris and Athens. She has completed large and complex transactions in multinational environments, advised the governments of Greece, Italy, France, Spain and Portugal in privatizations and offerings, and advised clients on EU financial regulations and corporate governance.

Until 2015, Xenia was a counsel at Allen & Overy LLP, where she spent 15 years specializing in international debt and equity offerings and advising on privatizations and cross border transactions. Prior to the latter, she was practicing law with Skadden Arps LLP on their Paris and London offices in the international capital markets team.

Xenia has also worked with the World Bank, conducting legal assessment, policy and regulatory reform and advising on judicial capacity building in Peru, Argentina, El Salvador and Venezuela, and more recently as an expert with the European Union in Georgia providing technical assistance and training to government officials on negotiation and drafting of international contracts.

Xenia is a Board Member and Treasurer of Action Finance Initiative (NGO providing microfinance) and represents Greece at the International Chamber of Commerce Commission of Anticorruption and Corporate Social Responsibility.