Litigation & Arbitration

He is a Barrister-at-Law of the Inner Temple (Called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2008) and a member of the Cyprus Bar Association (call 2010).

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.

Mr. Akis Koumas is a qualified lawyer with a degree in law (2:1) from the University of Sheffield (2006).