Ioannides Demetriou LLC

Partner

Christos is part of the firm's litigation department. His main areas of focus are  Arbitration, Corporate Law, Commercial Law, Dispute Resolution, Energy Law, EU and Competition Law, Litigation and Real Estate and Construction.

His clients range from some of the largest semi-public bodies in Cyprus, to multinational conglomerates and high net worth businessmen from around the world. Christos has also litigated on behalf of foreign governments and companies with most of his clientele originating from Russia and the Ukraine.

Renowned as an immensely effective, unphasable and captivating courtroom advocate who has intimate knowledge of the legal intricacies of courtroom litigation.  Although he has litigated on a wide array of legal fields, he has made his name by litigating some of the most legally and factually complex and arduous corporate disputes ever heard before the Cypriot Courts, always presenting the case passionately and creating precedent on a number of novel issues along the way. The sort of cases he takes on can be characterised as fiercely contested affairs which play out on a multijurisdictional battleground. Strategy and timing are often of the essence in this sort of disputes. The same goes for being able to effectively command a team of lawyers and having the ability to work in seamless unison with the client's counsel in the other jurisdictions.

His fields of expertise include Arbitration, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Dispute Resolution, Energy, EU and Competition, Litigation, Real Estate and Construction.

English, Greek

Cyprus Bar Association

University of Leicester, Master's degree, Law Lancaster University, Bachelor's degree, Law