STELIOS AMERICANOS & CO LLC

Mr. Koumas is Senior Associate in our firm since October 2016. He specializes and has a considerable experience in litigation and advocacy with particular expertise and interest in contracts, commercial, corporate litigation, torts, company and banking law. He has also been involved in providing legal advice and representing banks in court, in cases related to matters which include among others credit facilities, receivers and managers, criminal complaints against banks, interpleader actions, CHF loans, garnishee proceedings, allegations of negligence and fraud against banks and other cases. Among his most notable and groundbreaking professional successes, Mr. Koumas has achieved the discharge of interim prohibitory orders against a bank and receivers and managers appointed out of court by the bank, under the terms of a floating charge and also the discharge of interim proceedings against a Cypriot bank by which the applicants sought to prohibit the bank from proceeding with foreclosure of their property.

Andreas Parpas

Associate, Advocate. Mr. Parpas is Associate and member of four Departments of our law firm, (i) Litigation & Arbitration, (ii) Banking & Finance, (iii) Restructuring, Receivership & Liquidation, and (iv) Real Estate, Immigration & Citizenship. He specializes in practice areas of cross-reference and mutual interest between those departments, especially corporate disputes, real estate and asset finance, and debt restructuring.

Antri Tasou

Associate, Lawyer, AML & Compliance Officer. Her responsibilities included, among others, inspections regarding AML compliance of the law firm and its clientele, provision of ongoing training and advice to CBA members, drawing and amending directives and legislation.

Charis Savvides

Partner, Lawyer, Lecturer, Head of three Departments of our law firm, namely: (i) Financial & Investment Regulatory Compliance, (ii) Restructuring, Receivership & Liquidation, and (iii) Innovation & Blockchain. Besides his professional career as a law practitioner, Dr Savvides is also Law Lecturer in the University of Nicosia since 2011, teaching European Union Law, Competition Law and Financial Law. Additionally, he is teaching Regulation and Digital Currencies, a law course offered by the University of Nicosia in the context of its MSc in Digital Currency. Dr Savvides is a regular speaker at professional seminars and conferences, where he shares his knowledge and experience about the regulatory status and trends in the fields of Investment Funds and Cryptocurrencies. In addition, he serves as a non-executive director in a Forex company and in a private equity Alternative Investment Fund, both regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC).

Chloe Americanos

Lawyer - Associate

Chrysanthi Epifaniou

Associate Lawyer, member of the Litigation & Arbitration Department of our law firm. She specializes in the areas of corporate and commercial law, contract law, negligence, and tortious claims, as well as employment law.

Despina Americanou

Partner, Advocate, Head of the Banking and Finance Department. The focus areas of Mrs. Americanou are Loan Agreements, Shares Purchase Agreements, Shareholders Agreements as well as Securities Agreements. She has participated and offered legal assistance on Banking & Finance issues, corporate matters, and Merger and Acquisitions. She acted as special Cyprus law counsel in various multinational cross border transactions in which she advised on aspects of Cyprus law pertaining to Financing and Securities Agreements.

Fotini Ntorzi

Lawyer - Associate

George Andreou

Associate, Advocate. He specializes in practice areas of drafting, negotiating and reviewing of all types of corporate documents and execution of international transactions on international and domestic projects. He was involved, amongst others, in complex share purchase agreements, due diligence reports, and provision of legal opinions on various corporate law matters.

Georgia Georgiadou

Associate, Advocate. She specializes in Civil and Criminal Law.

Gregores Fylaktou

Associate Lawyer

Helen Minti

Associate, Advocate. Ms. Minti joined our law firm as an Associate in May 2019. She specializes in Civil, Criminal, and Family Law, and works at the Litigation & Arbitration Department. Ms Minti has been distinguished by her effective handling of numerous complex and demanding cases, both at first instance Courts and in the Court of Appeal.

Ioanna Katsidima

Associate, Advocate. She specializes in the areas of Administrative Law and Civil Law.

Koulla Kizi

Associate, Lawyer. She practices at areas of commercial and banking litigation with a particular interest on corporate disputes, debt recovery proceedings, mareva post judgment orders and Chabra orders. She also deals with issues of private international law and specifically concerning the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. Ms Kizi has been involved in a lot of cases concerning injunction orders into foreclosure proceedings and specifically on the discharge of interim proceedings as well as the appeals filed by mortgagor and other interested parties against on one of the biggest banking organization in Cyprus by which the applicants sought to prohibit the bank from proceedings with foreclosure of their property. Ms Kizi has a particular expertise in foreclosure procedures subject to the Law 9/65, as amended. She has also been involved in injunction orders on behalf of one of the biggest banking institutions in Cyprus in cases where the bank appointed receivers/manager under the terms of a floating charge and in Norwich Pharmacal orders. During her experience, she has also handled and represented credit institutions in a number of actions filed by bondholders. Further, she dealt with multi-million euro complex-cases, including among others foreign currency loans cases and she dealt with success with administrative actions concerning million-euro tenders and dealing with interim orders into administrative proceedings.

Menelaos Kesisoglou

Associate, External Lawyer

Michalis Zambyrinis

Associate, Lawyer. He is member of three departments: (i) Banking & Finance, (ii) Corporate & Commercial and (ii) Mergers & Acquisitions. During his career, Mr. Michalis Zambyrinis acquired significant legal expertise in cross-border and multi-jurisdictional projects related to mergers and acquisitions as well as to project finance. His work involves, among others, drafting, negotiating and reviewing several types of commercial agreements, including finance documents, share purchase agreements and joint venture agreements, providing legal advice on various corporate law issues as well as participating in the preparation of legal due-diligence reports.

Olga Petrova

Associate, Advocate. Ms. Petrova specializes in Banking & Finance and Corporate & Commercial Law. She has gained valuable expertise in reviewing and drafting share purchase agreements, shareholders agreements, share pledge agreements, security documents, loans and other financial documentation. She also provides practical assistance to international clients on various legal matters, especially in complex cross-border multilingual transactions.

Soteris Costa

Partner, Advocate, Head of the Litigation & Arbitration Department. He is currently heavily involved in and handles major corporate law disputes with an international element. At the same time, he assists and offers advice on many corporate and commercial-related projects.

Stelios Americanos

Managing Partner, Advocate, Head of the Corporate and Commercial Department, the Mergers & Acquisitions Department, and that of Real Estate, Immigration & Citizenship. Besides, he also heads the teams of lawyers on Projects relating to Aviation, Energy, cross-border transactions, and debt arrangements.

Thanos Fiakas

Associate, Advocate member of three departments of our law firm, (i) Litigation & Arbitration, (ii) Mergers & Acquisitions and (iii) Real Estate, Immigration & Citizenship. During his career, Mr. Fiakas has contributed to numerous significant transactional projects in various sectors of the economy, while he also provides advisory services to international clients on the governmental schemes concerning citizenship by investment and residency permits.

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