Lawyers

Dafni Loizou

Dafni Loizou

Work Department

- Banking and Finance-Corporate and M&A-Financial Services and Products-Restructuring and Insolvency

Position

Senior Associate

Career

Dafni joined A.G. Erotocritou LLC’s corporate and commercial team in 2022 as a Senior Associate.

Dafni’s practice focuses on corporate M&A transactions, restructurings, legal due diligence exercises and growth capital transactions. Since joining the firm, Dafni has acted for various clients on M&A transactions (including running the legal due diligence exercises), financing transactions and real estate transactions, as well as advising on shareholders’ agreements and other arrangements between entrepreneurs and the set up of new businesses.

Dafni, since joining, has authored a number of publications, mainly in the areas of corporate governance, private wealth and regulatory.

Prior to joining the firm, Dafni worked as a corporate lawyer at Stephenson Harwood LLP in London, specialising in private equity transactions, acting both for institutional investors and management teams, including advising on shareholders’ agreements and related arrangements. Dafni has extensive experience in all aspects of M&A transactions and private equity deals, including MBOs, bolt-on acquisitions, investments and divestitures, as well as public IPOs and secondary listings on the AIM market.

Prior to qualifying as a solicitor, Dafni worked as a property paralegal and spent some time as a trainee in the corporate restructuring and insolvency department of another City law firm.

Dafni qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2017, following successful completion of her LLB and Legal Practice Course. Previously, she had completed undergraduate studies in Mathematics.

Dafni will be admitted at the Cyprus Bar Association in September 2023, having successfully completed the required Cyprus Bar Association exams.

Languages

English, Greek and French

Memberships

Member of the Cyprus Bar Association

Education

Legal Practice Course, Kaplan Law School

Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School

LLB (Hons), Nottingham Trent University

BSc (Hons) Mathematics, University of Bristol

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