Banking and finance

Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants

The ‘highly skilled and responsive’ team at Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants ’always provides clear and practical legal advice’. With Chryso Pitsilli-Dekatris at the helm, it regularly advises domestic and foreign banks, investors, financial institutions and electronic money institutions. Other key clients include large companies. It is adept at advising on the full spectrum of issues, including advising on fintech and crypto-assets. A sizeable proportion of its work focuses on secured financing transactions. The firm acts as local counsel to three credit institutions operating in Cyprus. It remains busy advising on syndicated project financings and re-financings. The practice is well placed to handle complex matters with a significant multi-jurisdictional component. Other key members of the practice include Anna Rossides and Pavlos Symeonides. Artemis Amalia Metaxa has a proven track record of advising clients on a variety of high-value secured and syndicated financing transactions.

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Testimonials

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‘The finance team at Chrysostomides is incredibly responsive, and professional, and provides commercially minded advice on matters of Cypriot law. We have worked with them on multiple cross-border syndicated transactions.’
‘Artemis Amalia Metaxa is very knowledgeable and has been an incredible support on all matters of Cypriot law on cross-border syndicated transactions.’
'Christia-Lydia Kastellani is absolutely competent and resilient, very reactive and constantly available. She is prompt in her responses and able to comprehend the problems and propose solutions. ’
‘We’ve worked with Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants on several complex matters for the past few years. Whether it’s corporate law, banking and finance or any other regulatory issues, they consistently deliver outstanding results.’
‘Artemis Amalia Metaxa has strong professional and analytical skills, attention to detail, and a client-oriented approach that makes our cooperation seamless. Her assistance provides us with confidence in navigating even the most challenging legal situations.’
‘The team is very experienced, efficient and client-oriented. They can always find a better solution for the client. Artemis A. Metaxa is an excellent and experienced professional. Her skills and knowledge of the market are exceptional. ’
‘Artemis Amalia Metaxa truly stood out for her exceptional expertise in the Banking & Finance practice. Her responsiveness was remarkable, ensuring that our communication remained seamless, even when facing tight deadlines.'
‘Artemis A Metaxa and Anna Rossides are excellent lawyers who are a pleasure to work with. They strike the right balance between advice and creativity which distinguishes all good lawyers in my experience.’

Key clients

Alpha Bank S.A.
National Bank of Greece (Cyprus)
National Bank of Greece
Piraeus Bank S.A.
Housing Finance Corporation
Natixis, Singapore Branch
Societe Generale Bank – Cyprus Limited
Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd
First Abu Dhabi Bank P.J.S.C. (Singapore Branch)
ABN AMRO Bank N.V
Barclays Bank PLC
Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (Suisse) SA
Societe Generale Bank – Cyprus Limited
Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd
Raiffeisen Bank International AG
Dragon Capital
J&T Banka, a.s.
Astarta Holding Plc
doValue Cyprus

Work highlights

Advised major multinational banks on nine separate occasions over the last 12 months concerning the financing of Gunvor, a global commodity trading group of companies. The six completed transactions are valued at $1.885bn, 335m, 125m 780m, 1.34bn and 1.2 bn, respectively.
Acting for doValue Cyprus, a company that manages credit and real estate assets deriving from non-performing loans, following an action raised by a debtor, claiming that the loan agreement and all related security agreements contain unfair contract terms rendering the entirety of such agreements void and null.