Dispute Resolution & ADR
The dispute resolution practice is our firm’s largest practice, renowned for delivering exceptional service to clients.
With more than 60 years’ experience in the legal market and backed up by an international culture, our legal team successfully handles cases in conventional and alternative forms of dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation of international and domestic disputes. Our clients come from various industry sectors and include public and private companies, multinational corporations, banks, financial institutions, entrepreneurs as well as a host of individual clients from Cyprus and abroad.
Litigation
Headed by four partners, the litigation team handles a wide range of claims and disputes, both domestic and international or cross-border disputes, in respect of general civil, corporate, commercial, criminal and matrimonial litigation, as well as administrative recourses to the Supreme Court of Cyprus. Our team has great expertise in obtaining prohibitive, protective and other types of interim measures within the framework of actions filed in Cyprus or in aid of foreign litigation and arbitration proceedings, as well as opposing relevant applications for the issue of such measures. We also regularly represent clients and proceedings for the enforcement of foreign judgments or arbitration awards. Our team handles disputes in all areas of law, including:
- Corporate and shareholders’ disputes
- Banking and finance disputes
- Professional negligence, incl. medical malpractice
- Bankruptcy, insolvency and receivership
- Landlord and tenant disputes
- Employment disputes
- Matrimonial law
- Breach of contracts
- Personal injury claims
- Road traffic accidents
- Insurance claims
- Admiralty claims
- Defamation, libel and slander claims
- Fraud and Conspiracy Claims
- Registration and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments and Arbitral Awards
- Litigation in aid of foreign litigation or arbitral proceedings.
International Arbitration
The department is headed by Mr Stavros Pavlou, Senior & Managing Partner of the firm, who has excellent negotiating skills and extensive experience in international arbitration centres, such as the London Court of International Arbitration, the Stockholm Arbitration Court, the Austrian Arbitration Centre and others. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb). The team handles arbitration for:
- Commercial cross-border transactions
- Corporate finance disputes
- Shareholders’ disputes
- Trade & Construction industry related disputes
Mediation
Our mediation team provides comprehensive private mediation services and assists in representing individual parties to help resolve conflicts as efficiently and cost effectively as possible. Partners Chrysostomos Nicolaou and Senior Counsel Giannis Potsis have been specifically trained and accredited as mediators and they are included in the official list of mediators of the Ministry of Justice and Public Order and the Central Bank of Cyprus. The legal team offers mediation services in the following sectors:
- Banking Law: typical banking mediation cases often involve negotiation of reconstruction of loan agreements
- Corporate Law: contractual disputes or partnership dissolutions
- Labour Law: employment disputes, illegal dismissals, compensations etc.
- Contract Law: landlord and tenant conflicts
