Dispute Resolution

Our highly praised and consistently ranked dispute resolution team has demonstrated over time considerable advocacy skills in multiple court appearances, enabling the firm to establish a dynamic and reputable litigation practice, offering clients the best possible representation service to achieve the most feasible beneficial outcomes.

In all occasions, we consult our clients to avoid litigation and at the same achieve the desired objective, whilst, if this is not possible, we focus on their aims taking into account all inherent commercial and legal risks. We approach each new case by adopting innovative, and where necessary, aggressive strategies – tailor made – to the client, in order to resolve the matter within the shortest possible timeframe. Intentionally, we accept only a limited amount of engagements at a time in order to ensure that our unique clientele enjoy the most responsive and personalized service, equal to the standard of the leading international firms. 

The firm is intentionally refusing to offer any fiduciary or company administration services (despite the vast majority of other firms in Cyprus active in the dispute resolution arena) in order to remain conflict-free and to receive instructions from underlying clients who participate in structures involving companies administered in Cyprus.

To this end, our lawyers’ acute legal/ commercial awareness, result-driven ethos, keen eye for detail and presentation of argument in a robust and persuasive manner, have been key contributory factors in meeting our clients’ particular needs and expectations.

A.G. Erotocritou LLC's dispute resolution department is highly acclaimed, having been consistently ranked by Legal 500 and WhosWhoLegal, with the former praising the firm's "responsive team" and its "strong litigation and arbitration practice" throughout the years.

The above expertise in litigation follows A.G. Erotocritou LLC's dynamic arbitration practice. Our team have been exposed and gained invaluable expertise, efficiently and effectively dealing with all aspects of the arbitration process, both at a domestic and international level, including the drafting and interpretation of arbitration clauses, the appointment of arbitrators, conducting arbitral proceedings, implementing and monitoring the enforcement of awards etc.

A broad range of contentious issues have been systematically handled by A.G. Erotocritou LLC in the dispute resolution theatre, encompassing diverse areas of the legal spectrum, including administrative law recourses, banking, bankruptcy, corporate, debt collection and enforcement, family disputes, fraud and asset recovery, intellectual property, interim relief measures, property-related matters, shareholders’ disputes and derivative actions.

Recent litigation cases include advising:

• We have been instructed to act in the 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.
• We have been instructed to advise a leading Russian Bank institution, in relation to the rights stemming from the enforcement of the pledge over the shares in a multinational group, which eventually lead to the sell-off of the assets of the Group.
• We have been instructed to oppose 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.
• We have been instructed to act as Cypriot counsel for a HNWI in relation to a dispute over an oil venture. Our firm offered advice on matters of Cyprus Law raised, in the main proceedings taking place before the Supreme Court of New York, and took a leading role in the Rogatory Proceedings raised in Cyprus which involved the cross examinations of key witnesses residing in Cyprus. The value of the case exceeds 2billion USD. The case was described by the Financial Times, as “the biggest oligarch legal battle in the US”.
• We have been instructed by the global leader in the IT & Technology sector in relation to proceedings raised against key management in Cyprus.
• We have been instructed to advice upon, structure and implement the largest ever (in terms of size and magnitude) Scheme of Arrangement between a Cyprus holding company, and its creditors, in relation to debts exceeding USD 700 million. The complex restructuring project, involved, inter alia, the defence by the company of 14 high value cases raised before the District Courts of Cyprus.

For further information or in case you have any legal issues, please contact us at:

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