CYPRUS Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Stelios Christophides and Vasilis Charalambous George Z. Georgiou & Associates LLC
George Z. Georgiou & Associates LLC has particular expertise in the fields of corporate and competition law and fully supports corporate clients in all IP and media-related matters. Clients include individuals, artists, TV celebrities, musicians, distributers, munic - ipalities, banks, and international software compa - nies, advertisers, and marketers. The team handles both contentious and non-contentious matters, with particular focus on brand management, protection of IP rights including trade marks, copyrights, industrial
designs, and advertising campaigns, domain regis - tration and protection, IP litigation and arbitration, and contests decisions of the Cyprus Consumer Protection Authority and the Cyprus Radio Televi - sion Authority. Tax advice in relation to IP rights also forms part of the practice. The firm is the sole Cypriot member of the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA) – an alliance of lawyers with expertise and experience in advertising, marketing, and promotion law.
Authors
Stelios Christophides is a senior lawyer at George Z Georgiou & Associates LLC. He advises on corporate, commercial, insolvency, and non-contentious intellectual property law matters. He also advises
Vasilis Charalambous is a senior lawyer at George Z Georgiou & Associates LLC and the head of GZG Tech, advising public and private sector clients on emerging technologies including blockchain,
on advertising and competition law matters. Stelios has extensive experience in due diligence projects for large corporate groups. He has also advised clients on several high value acquisition transactions. He holds an LLB (Hons) in law from Birmingham University and an LLM in Commercial Law from Nottingham University, UK. Stelios is also a holder of a BSc (Hons) in Business Admin (Finance, University of Cyprus). He is a member of the Cyprus Bar Association and Nicosia Bar Association.
artificial intelligence, crypto-assets, and personal data issues. He is the President of the Technology Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association and a member of the International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications (INATBA)and the Tech London Advocates Blockchain Legal and Regulatory Group. He is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars and writes for various publications on topics related to innovation and technology.
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