Antis Triantafyllides & Sons LLC

The firm: The law firm of Antis Triantafyllides & Sons LLC was founded in 1955. It is one of the oldest and best established law firms in Cyprus providing high-quality legal services in all areas of law to corporations, institutions, government entities and high-net-worth individuals. Its main practice focuses on domestic and international corporate and banking and finance law, it also boasts one of the strongest litigation teams in the country and a leading tax department. The firm currently employs 72 staff, including 35 lawyers and legal consultants.

Antis Triantafyllides, the founder of the firm, was the Cyprus member of the Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce throughout the greater part of his legal career.

The firm offers an optimum service to clients in terms of high-quality transactional work combined with practical advice, demonstrating a depth of knowledge and technical expertise in a number of fields including financial services and regulation, structured finance and debt capital markets, and public and administrative law.

The highly trained team successfully provide a blend of local expertise with an international outlook to provide exact and comprehensive advice to both domestic and international clients.

Areas of practice:
Banking and finance: the highly experienced banking and finance team handles secured and unsecured lending, international high-value financing and refinancing transactions, including project financing, syndicated, subordinated and mezzanine financing, and related securities such as share pledges, floating charges and financial collateral. The firm regularly advises on compliance and banking regulatory and licensing requirements, asset preservation and security enforcement and procedures. The highly experienced members of the team bring the wealth of their experience to the department, making it one of the strongest in the country.

Capital markets: the capital markets practice specialises in debt and equity capital markets, derivatives and structured finance, securitisation, corporate trust and agency. The team regularly acts on public offerings for regulated and non-regulated markets internationally and locally, as well as private placements, Eurobond issues, reverse takeovers etc, acting for issuers, underwriters and lenders.

Corporate and commercial: the corporate department constitutes the cornerstone of the firm’s practice. The experience of the highly reputable and exceptionally specialised team is second to none in Cyprus. The department’s practice covers the formation, acquisition and sale of Cyprus companies, shareholder agreements and corporate governance issues, capital raising transactions, local and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs and earn-outs, corporate management, and redomiciliation of companies in and out of Cyprus. The firm also possesses great experience, inter alia, in legal drafting and reviewing and providing legal advice in a range of areas such as intellectual property, data protection and GDPR, regulatory issues and anti-money laundering matters.

Financial services regulation: the firm has unprecedented expertise in this area of Cyprus law, and can advise on set-up and structure, licensing requirements, as well as provide legal advice and support with respect to the licencing application, taxation, M&A transactions, regulatory development and cross-border regulatory issues and on any other regulatory, compliance, employment, consumer protection, data protection, anti-money laundering regulation and contentious matters concerning investment services, payment services, e-money, digital currencies and funds.

Litigation, arbitration and mediation: the litigation team is considered one of the best in Cyprus and covers all areas of general and commercial law. The firm offers a wide range of dispute resolution and mediation, representation of clients before all national courts and tribunals as well as domestic and international arbitration under internationally recognised arbitration bodies. The team also specialises, non-exhaustively, in interim order applications, Norwich Pharmacal orders and other types of disclosure orders, as well as freezing orders.

Tax: the tax department has a reputation for developing effective solutions that are both tax-efficient and practical. The firm’s tax practitioners are integrated into transactional teams and advise corporations and individuals on a wide range of Cypriot tax issues arising in the context of international and local transactions, including court disputes.