Demetrios Xistris

Demetrios Xistris is one of the founding members of our Firm.

Over a 35 year career, Demetri has counseled and advised clients in a wide range of financial and corporate activities in areas of corporate finance, securities, banking, derivatives, and mergers and acquisitions. He has counseled private and public corporations, issuers, lenders, equity investors, start-ups, private equity investors, family offices, high net-worth individuals, investment funds, hedge funds and shareholders in corporate and commercial matters, including capital markets, securities, private placements, business partnerships and investments, mergers and acquisitions and asset sales, private equity investments, joint ventures, roll-up and spin-off transactions, and cross border investments, together with negotiating business disputes. He has deep relationships within the investment banking, capital markets, broker dealer, funds, derivatives and finance and banking industries.

Demetri has also worked at various investment banks including JPMorgan and BNP Paribas in their equity, debt and capital markets divisions advising equity and bond trading, derivatives, structured products and investment banking activities, and their regulatory compliance, including FINRA and SEC investigations. Through his legal work and years at investment banks, he was an early practitioner in the derivatives and structured products area across all asset classes and documentation.

He has also been a senior advisor to broker-dealers, digital and print on demand publishers, a credit opportunity fund, hospitality industry investors and operators and the legal cannabis market.

Demetri began his career as a corporate lawyer at White & Case LLP specializing in financial transactions including banking, corporate finance, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. He spent a year working in White & Case’s Tokyo Office doing corporate finance, capital markets and mergers and acquisitions work.

Demetri is occasionally on secondment when involved in special long-term projects or assignments.

Education: McGill Law School, LLB; McGill Law School, BCL; Columbia College, AB

Bar Admission: New York

Languages: English, French, Greek