Marcos Dracos KC

Marcos Dracos undertakes a broad range of commercial work, with emphasis on international arbitration, conflict of laws, civil fraud, offshore and CIS related litigation. He has extensive experience appearing as counsel in international arbitration disputes (on his own or as part of a team), and he also sits as an arbitrator.

Marcos can advise on all aspects of English and Cypriot commercial law. He has full rights of audience in England and Cyprus and, in addition to his arbitration work, he frequently appears before courts in both jurisdictions. In England, he frequently acts in jurisdictional disputes and arbitration related matters. In Cyprus, he has acquired particular experience acting in jurisdictional disputes, arbitration claims, company and shareholder disputes, trust disputes, civil fraud claims, freezing order and disclosure applications. He also has experience appearing as an expert witness on English and Cypriot law in foreign courts and tribunals and is admitted as a barrister of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the Territory of the Virgin Islands. He is a member of the ICC Court of Arbitration (2021-2024).

Marcos has a PhD from the University of Cambridge where he also taught contract law. Presently he is a visiting lecturer at the law department of the University of Cyprus, lecturing on Cypriot Civil Procedure and Evidence.

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (2001 BA Law (First Class)); Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge (2006 PhD).