CYPRUS Law and Practice Contributed by: Kyriacos Scordis, Alexandros Gavrielides, Chara Pieri and Demetris Yiannakou, Scordis, Papapetrou & Co LLC
Scordis, Papapetrou & Co LLC is a leading and dy- namic Cyprus law firm whose roots date back to the practice established by the late Andreas Michaelides in 1922 in Famagusta, and later to the respective practices of Andis Scordis, Michalis Papapetrou and Adamos Adamides. Today, the firm offers, together
with its affiliates and subsidiaries, a wide range of services, such as international litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution, corporate and commercial, M&A, estate and tax planning and trusts, company/ fund formation and administration, fiduciary and trus- tee services, accounting and tax advisory.
Authors
Kyriacos Scordis is the managing partner of Scordis, Papapetrou & Co LLC, who focuses on public and private M&A, group reorganisations, banking and finance, general company law and corporate
Chara Pieri is an associate lawyer in the litigation department of Scordis, Papapetrou & Co LLC, specialising in corporate and commercial litigation, banking litigation and public procurement and administrative law.
governance matters, international cross-border matters and other corporate transactions. He is a member of Lincoln’s Inn, Inns of Court (Barrister at Law), the Cyprus Bar Association, the International Tax Planning Association, the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA) and the International Bar Association.
She is involved in high-profile cross-border commercial disputes concerning matters relating to civil fraud, conspiracy, fraudulent transactions, commercial injunctions and disclosure orders. She also has considerable experience with complex legal issues, including jurisdictional, choice-of-law and other conflict-of-laws issues.
Alexandros Gavrielides has been a partner at Scordis, Papapetrou & Co LLC since 2005. He has more than 20 years’ experience in handling complex civil and commercial litigation. His main areas of practice
Demetris Yiannakou joined Scordis, Papapetrou & Co LLC as an associate lawyer in 2023 and has, since then, gained experience in arbitration as well as in civil and construction litigation matters. He regularly
are multijurisdictional disputes, civil fraud and corporate disputes. He is frequently consulted by international law firms in relation to commercial and corporate proceedings brought or intended to be brought in Cyprus, and has given evidence as an expert on Cypriot civil law in proceedings before the English Commercial Court as well as in international arbitral proceedings.
represents clients in court proceedings. Some of his recent litigation engagements include acting for one of Cyprus’ leading construction companies in several litigation matters, including securing a court order preventing the opposing party from liquidating the 1.6 million performance bond under the contract.
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