People

Andreas’ practice focuses on complex, cross border and high-stakes disputes.

He specialises in various fields of commercial and corporate litigation and arbitration, regularly appearing before the district courts, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court in Cyprus representing prominent local and international clients. Andreas has vast experience in corporate fraud and asset recovery, shareholders’ disputes, recognition and enforcement proceedings as well as in corporate insolvency and restructuring. He also has significant expertise in obtaining and defending interim injunctive relief in support of proceedings in Cyprus and elsewhere.

Andreas is a fellow of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators and currently serves as Vice Chair of the Asset Recovery Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA).

Andreas is consistently ranked and recognised as a leading practitioner in the dispute resolution arena by the leading international directories such as Chambers and Partners, Legal 500 and Lexology Index (Who’s Who Legal). Andreas “stands out as being one of the best litigators in Cyprus”. He has been described as “a terrific lawyer” who “fulfils all the clients’ needs in a competent and professional manner”, as a lawyer who was “perfect and performed beyond expectations”, “dynamic & methodical”, “accurate in the execution of his work”, “a strategic thinker” and as having “great commercial awareness”.

Andreas is a Barrister of the Middle Temple, and a member of, amongst others, the Cyprus Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the Honourable Society of Middle Temple. Andreas has authored numerous articles for publications on various topics relating to international cross-border litigation and arbitration and has been a lecturer at the law department of Frederick University in Cyprus. In the past, Andreas worked for Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP in London.

Recent Experience

• Enforcing a decision in the region of EUR 12 billion against a state in Latin America.
• Acting on behalf of the European Union to enforce a multimillion Euro judgment against a sovereign state.
• Acting in the USD 840.000.000 dispute over the privatisation of a leading telecom provider in the CIS area. The dispute involved parallel proceedings in London, Cyprus and Ukraine and has attracted wide-spread press coverage, as a world-wide freezing injunction issued in Cyprus covered the personal assets of an UHNWI.
• Opposing the recognition and enforcement of an arbitral award in Cyprus, issued by the LCIA in London, in relation to a global dispute between a Russian energy company and a German utility provider, in relation to an investment the value of which exceeds 1.2 billion Euro.
• Acting in an infamous multijurisdictional dispute between successors of an UHNWI, in a dispute over his estate which is estimated to be worth over USD 4 billion.

Education

LLB (Hons), University of Sheffield

Bar Vocational Course, U.W.E. Bristol

Languages

Greek

English