Michael Kyprianou & Co LLC

Cyprus

Michael Kyprianou & Co LLC is one of the largest law firms in Cyprus with offices in Nicosia, Limassol and Paphos. The firm’s international presence has expanded with fully fledged offices in Athens and Thessaloniki in Greece, Birkirkara in Malta, Kiev in Ukraine, Dubai in the UAE, London in the UK, and Frankfurt in Germany.
The firm’s team of lawyers works regularly with major international law firms around the globe. As a member of prominent global networks of international lawyers such as the International Fraud Group, Multilaw and World Link for Law, the firm is able to handle cross-border cases with speed and efficiency.
The practice has been recommended by the European Legal 500 and by Chambers & Partners across all their fields of work.

Contacts

Menelaos Kyprianou

Managing Partner

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+357 22 447777

Managing Partner Menelaos has extensive experience in international dispute resolution and arbitration, and specialises in the field of litigation with a cross-border element. He has been described by the European Legal 500 Directory as “a reputable litigator who has handled complex international cases”, and has been consistently recommended by Legal500 as a ‘Leading Individual’ for Dispute Resolution in Cyprus. His wide-ranging experience includes successfully seeking numerous freezing and disclosure orders.

Marina Hadjisoteriou is a Partner and Head of the Limassol Dispute Resolution Department at Michael Kyprianou Law Firm, one of Cyprus’s largest law firms. She specializes in asset recovery, cross-border commercial litigation, international arbitration, and insolvency, consistently earning recognition as a leading practitioner by The Legal 500 EMEA, Chambers and Partners, and Lexology (formerly known as Who’s Who Legal). Directories praise her as “one of the best dispute resolution practitioners in Cyprus,” renowned for crafting cases with precision and delivering commercially astute solutions.

With extensive experience in high-value international fraud and asset tracing cases, Marina is adept at securing worldwide freezing orders, disclosure orders, and gagging orders. She has successfully represented clients in complex disputes involving shareholder disputes, breach of fiduciary duties and professional negligence. Her expertise extends to insolvency matters, including liquidation applications and the representation of local and foreign office holders, as well as obtaining recognition of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in Cyprus.

Marina’s client base includes multinational corporations, banks, and high-net-worth individuals. Holding a BSc in Accounting and Economics (First Class Honours) and qualifications as a barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, she also actively contributes to the profession as a member of the IWIRC Europe Steering Committee, the IWIRC Cyprus board, and as a director of the Cyprus Arbitration Forum.