Dimitrios Stratikopoulos is the Head of M&A in Central & Eastern Europe of Deutsche Bank. He joined the bank in September 2003 from Merrill Lynch where he spent six years, most recently as a Vice-President in the M&A department.
In his career he has completed a large number of acquisitions, defences, divestitures, leverage buyouts, mergers, as well as capital raising transactions.

Recent notable deals include : the sale of Neochimiki to Carlyle (?749m), the  sale of MIG’s stake in OTE to Deutsche Telekom (?2,549m) and the acquisition of Quintana Maritime by Excel Maritime ($2,450m).

Other significant transactions include the MIG and  Alapis rights issues in 2007 as well as the defence and subsequent  sale of Pliva  to Barr Pharmaceuticals ($2,500m) which awarded the Euromoney CEE M&A deal of the year for 2006.

Dimitrios is also heading the corporate finance effort for Deutsche bank in Greece where the bank was awarded by Euromoney as the Best Investment Bank  for 2007.

Previously, Dimitrios worked on a number of high profile transactions in the TMT sector, advising clients such as Ericcson, Hewlett Packard, Mannesmann, Nokia, Philips, Siemens and Schlumberger.

A graduate of the National Technical University of Athens, Mr. Stratikopoulos holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering and an MBA  from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied as a Fulbright and Onassis scholar.