Andreas G. Michaelides is a partner in the firm Scordis, Papapetrou & Co, in Cyprus. His areas of practice are Civil and Commercial Litigation, Arbitration and ADR, Commercial and Corporate Law, Regulatory, Governance, Compliance and AML. He is an arbitrator and accredited mediator.
Andreas has extensive experience in complex litigation with a multijurisdictional element involving multi-million claims in the courts Cyprus. He also handles a portfolio of corporate clients and high-net worth individuals and regularly advises corporate clients, including investment firms, fund managers and funds, in relation to regulatory, corporate and AML matters.
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Charis Demetriou is a founding and managing partner at Charis D. Demetriou & Co LLC. His areas of practice are Civil and Commercial Litigation, Arbitration and ADR, Commercial and Corporate Law, Antitrust and Competition and Intellectual Property. He is an arbitrator, a Ciarb Member, an ICCA member and an accredited mediator.
Charis has extensive experience in complex litigation with a multi-jurisdictional element involving multi-million claims in the courts Cyprus. He also handles a portfolio of corporate clients and high-net worth individuals and regularly advises corporate clients, including investment firms, fund managers and funds.
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Nicolas St. Constantinides is a Partner at Tassos Papadopoulos & Associates LLC. His principal areas of practice focus on commercial law, company law and construction law in the context of which he advises international and local clients from a wide range of industries in both contentious and non-contentious matters. He regularly represents parties to arbitration, adjudication and court proceedings. Nicolas also regularly advises in the areas of competition law, contract law, tenancy disputes, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, torts and consults on various regulatory and compliance matters.
Prior to practising law, Nicolas served as a diplomat at the Permanent Representation of the Republic of Cyprus to the EU in Brussels for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for the Government’s relations with the European Parliament. Nicolas also represented Cyprus at the EU Council Working Party on Transatlantic Relations and coordinated inter-institutional relations during the 2012 Cyprus Presidency of the EU Council, dealing with an array of legislative dossiers.
Nicolas is currently serving as the President of the Kyrenia Bar Association, one of the local bar associations of Cyprus and sits as an ex officio member of the Councils of the Cyprus Bar Association and the Advocates Pension Fund. He also is a member of the Delegation of the Cyprus Bar Association to the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE). He is also currently serving as a Board Member of the Cyprus Arbitration and Mediation Centre (CAMC).
Nicolas is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb), the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, the International Bar Association and sits on the Global Advisory Council of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC). He is also a founding member of the Commonwealth Legal Network (CLN). Nicolas is also accredited by the Ministry of Justice of Cyprus as a Mediator in civil and commercial disputes.
Nicolas graduated with a degree in Law (LLB Hons) in 2008 and an LLM in International Law with Distinction in 2009, both from the University of Surrey. He then undertook his vocational training at the College of Law of England & Wales, London Bloomsbury, completing the Bar Vocational Course (BVC) in 2010. He was Called to the Bar by The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in November of the same year.
Soteris graduated from Athens University in 1984, obtained his L.L.M. (Commercial & Corporate Law) from the London School of Economics in 1988
and was admitted to the Cyprus Bar in 1989. From 1989 until 1994 he was an associate in the Lawfirm of Andreas Neocleous & Co and from 1994 until March 2002 he was a Partner and the leading litigation lawyer of the said lawfirm dealing with international trade law, trusts and equity, company and partnership disputes and all insurance and admiralty claims. Mr. Soteris Pittas joined the Firm of PATRIKIOS PAVLOU & CO on April 2002 as a Partner and he was in charge of the Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Department of the Firm until November 2009. On December 2009 Mr. Soteris Pittas established the boutique lawfirm SOTERIS PITTAS & CO L.L.C. and since then he has been acting and he is the Managing Partner.
Expertise: International Trade Law, Trusts and Equity Banking and Finance, Company, Corporate and Commercial Law (local and international), Stock Exchange, Capital Markets, Mergers and Acquisitions, Commercial and Criminal Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Arbitration, International Tax Planning, Insurance Law; Admiralty; European Law.
Soteris Pittas has been involved in numerous complex commercial litigation and arbitration cases and in large cross-border litigation disputes, and he has furthermore acted as an expert of Cyprus law before various foreign courts and arbitration tribunals.
Soteris Pittas is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators of United Kingdom and a Honorary Member of the Association of Fellows and Scholars of the Center for International Legal Studies of Austria and of International Bar Association (IBA).
He has contributed numerous articles in various legal magazines and online media and he is the author of the following publications:
– Co-author of the Cyprus chapter on ‘International Execution Against Judgment
Debtors’ by Sweet & Maxwell (1997);
– ‘ENCYCLOPEDIA of COMMERCIAL LITIGATION’ by KLUWER LAW INTERNATIONAL
(2000);
– ‘INTRODUCTION TO CYPRUS LAW’ by ANDREAS NEOCLEOUS & CO (2000) (Coauthor);
– Cyprus contribution in an international textbook concerning the extradition of
Fugitives (2001).
– Cyprus Chapter on “Arbitration” by Global Arbitration Review.
– Cyprus Chapter on “Dispute Resolution” by Global Arbitration Review.
George is a Barrister and the Managing Partner of George Z. Georgiou & Associates LLC. He is a highly respected litigator, arbitrator, and mediator in Cyprus, with a reputation as a first-class advocate. He has a broad practice encompassing complex commercial litigation and arbitration, with a particular emphasis on cross-border disputes and multi-jurisdictional projects, obtaining and defending urgent interim relief such as freezing injunctions, discovery orders, search orders and banker’s trust orders.
George often provides expert opinions in matters of Cypriot Law and international jurisdiction, and he is a legal adviser to numerous boards of local and international companies across various sectors, advising on corporate, commercial, regulatory, employment, property, and contentious matters.
George is an Associate Tenant and part of the International Arbitration Group of Littleton Chambers, London, and a member of CIArb, IBA, LCIA, RCIS, ICC, CCCI and the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, amongst other associations. He is a trainer and lecturer on aspects of Cyprus law, both in Cyprus and abroad, and he contributes to legal publications & journals.
Alexandros Tsirides is the Managing Director of Costas Tsirides & Co LLC.
He graduated from University College London in 1996. He was called to the English Bar as member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn in 1997 and completed his Master of Laws in 1998 with specialisation in Commercial and Corporate Law.
He qualified as an Insolvency Practitioner in 2015 and later on the same year he was appointed as a member of the Insolvency Practitioners’ Examination Committee.
From 2016 until 2022 he served as the President of the Insolvency Practitioners’ Examination Committee.
Alexandros is very active and has served the Cyprus Bar association from various posts including being a Member of the Council of the Cyprus Bar Association, a VicePresident of the Limassol Bar Association, a Treasurer of the Limassol Bar Association and President of the Examination Committee for Insolvency Practitioners. He currently serves as a member of the Council of the Cyprus bar Association. And a board member
of the Cyprus Arbitration and Mediation Center.
His has extensive experience in complicated cross border dispute resolution and is also heavily involved in M&A transactions and other complex corporate transactions
advising on Cyprus law.
Niki is a Partner of the Corporate Law and Dispute Resolution Department at Harris Kyriakides.
She has extensive experience in Corporate and Commercial Litigation, representing national and international clients.
Her practice focuses on complex disputes and the main areas of her expertise include corporate fraud and asset recovery, shareholders’ disputes, insolvency and recognition and enforcement proceedings. Over the years of her practice, she has been involved in high profile litigation disputes.
She is a member of the board of Cyprus Legal Council, member of the board of Cyprus Arbitration and Mediation Centre (CAMC) and member of the board and founding member of IWIRC Cyprus (International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation). She has also served on the board of Limassol Bar Association for 13 years, being a member of the board in 2010 – 2014, Secretary of the board in 2014 – 2017 and the Vice-President in 2017 – 2023.
Ioannis T. Economou earned his LL. B (Hons) at the University of Southampton and promptly completed his vocational training, joining the corporate litigation team at one of Cyprus’ oldest and most respected firms. Ioannis possesses extensive experience in complex cross-border corporate and commercial disputes, having successfully led numerous major corporate litigation and arbitration projects. He regularly appears before courts of all levels and jurisdictions, representing a diverse and prestigious client base that include some of the world’s largest financial institutions, high-tech conglomerates, renowned private equity funds, international funds, investment firms, and major biotechnology, natural resource, digital technology, and security companies, as well as high-networth individuals and entrepreneurs.
His latest major publications include the “Litigation Dispute Resolution Comparative Guide 2023” and the “Enforcement of Foreign Judgements Comparative Guide 2023,” both featured on Mondaq. Additionally, Ioannis holds memberships and qualifications with the Cyprus Bar Association and Famagusta Bar Association and is a contributor to the World Justice Project.
Christiana earned her LL.B. from the University of Cyprus in 2013, and she is a member of the Cyprus Bar Association since 2015. Christiana possesses extensive experience in complex commercial and family disputes, having successfully led numerous commercial litigation projects. She appeared before courts, representing a diverse client base for more than five years. She is specialized in European legal research through the acquisition of a master’s degree in European Union Law in 2018. She also earned two diplomas on financial and maritime issues from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2022.
Christiana is an accredited arbitrator and an accredited mediator and the legal officer of the Cyprus Arbitration & Mediation Centre since 2021.
