Ioannides Demetriou LLC

Managing Director

Andrew is the Managing Director and one of the two co-founders of Ioannides Demetriou  LLC.

He is a Barrister and a Chartered Arbitrator and Accredited Mediator. He is a Member of the Honourable society of Gray’s Inn, the Cyprus Bar Association. Andrew was a forerunner in establishment of a branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in Cyprus and has served three terms as Chairman of the Cyprus Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He has also served as Chairman of the Legalink Network (2015-2017) (http://www.legalink.ch).

Andrew advises major governmental and public and private sector clients in Cyprus and on an international basis such as Electricity Authority of Cyprus, on all aspects of its business, ranging from construction of its power plants, RES activities to personnel and regulatory, competition and environmental issues. He is also lead legal advisor for the University of Cyprus, the Open University of Cyprus, the Cyprus Health Insurance Organisation and the Regulatory Organisation for the Cyprus Accountancy and Audit Profession.

Andrew was the leading counsel for the Republic of Cyprus in the negotiations for the first round of hydrocarbon exploration, extraction contracts and subsequently advised the government of Cyprus in relation to amendments and transfers during the course of the implementation of the resulting production sharing contracts.

He has also worked in a number of independent power production projects in the fields of wind and solar energy production.

Andrew’s areas of acknowledged expertise are energy law, commercial litigation, legal and arbitration services in the fields of commercial, corporate, real estate and construction law, all aspects of public law and public infrastructure/BOT Projects with a particular expertise on energy and infrastructure projects from procurement procedures through to construction contract and project operation/completion as well as the formation of Joint Ventures and SPV’s.

Andrew is an active arbitrator and has provided legal and arbitration services to clients on a world-wide basis involving visits for the provision of legal advice and legal services in many countries .

He served as the first Chairman of the Arbitration and Mediation Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association, a Committee that was established by the Cyprus Bar Association with the task of modernizing the country’s legislation as regards the  use ADR methods.

Andrew has also lectured many times both in Cyprus and abroad on the topics of arbitration, commercial law, construction law real estate law, health and safety of construction sites and business establishment.

English, Greek

The Honourable society of Gray's Inn

Cyprus Bar Association

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

International Bar Association

London Court of International Arbitration

Liverpool University, Law LL.B (Hons)

The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, Barrister at Law

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Chartered Arbitrator

STEP, Registered Trusts and Estates Practitioner

CEDR, Accredited Mediator