Stavros Gadinis
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley Law School

sgadinis@law.berkeley.edu. I would like to thank Michelle Anderson, Robert Bartlett, Eli Bukspan, Assaf Hamdani, Gerard Hertig, Ehud Kamar, Amir Licht, Katerina Linos, Saira Mohamed, Mariana Pargendler, Mark Ramseyer, Bertrall Ross, Costanza Russo, James Spindler, and Eric Talley, for their extremely helpful comments and suggestions. This Article was presented at the Back to the State? Government Investment in Corporations and Reregulation Conference, Tel Aviv, June 2011. I would also like to thank the CEGLA center at Tel Aviv University School of Law for inviting me to this conference. Dimitris Pantazis provided excellent research assistance. Apart from where specified, all data for the case studies in this Article are provided in the disclosure documents drafted by OTE, PPC and OPAP in the context of their domestic and international offerings, and their annual reports thereafter. These documents are publicly available, apart from memoranda relating to these companies’ private placements, which were obtained by the Bloomberg database and are on file with the author. All documents are listed in the Article’s Appendix.