N. Pirilides & Associates LLC

Dispute Resolution, Private Client, Real Estate

Partner

Savvas Theofanous is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Department of N. Pirilides & Associates LLC and a member of the Cyprus Bar Association since 2017. He joined our firm in 2018 as an Advocate, demonstrating a strong capacity of dealing with not only substantive, but also with procedural legal issues of complicated and contentious nature.

He undertakes a wide range of civil, commercial and corporate matters, and he regularly represents both local and international clients before the Cyprus Courts, mostly in complex cases with an international dimension and frequently as a member of a multi-jurisdictional legal team.

His practice as a dispute resolution lawyer encompasses all aspects of civil and commercial litigation, arbitration, fraud, shareholders’ disputes, winding-up petitions, asset tracing and without notice interim relief, as well as the protection of minority shareholders and the registration and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.

Greek & English

Savvas academic background reaffirms that he has a sound knowledge of legal principles and mechanisms applicable in both civil and common law jurisdictions. Savvas was admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Laws from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2016. He subsequently obtained his LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Bristol, UK in 2018 with Distinction.

Alongside his role as a practitioner, Savvas is also a PhD scholar, and his doctoral research focuses on the consensual nature of arbitration, in conjunction with the increasing complex nature of commercial disputes and the involvement of third parties, and the role of national courts in the arbitral process.