Katerina is a Partner at Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC and a practising lawyer in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. With over 15 years of experience, she has developed a broad practice in civil and commercial litigation, both locally and internationally.

She holds a law degree from the University of Leicester (2006) and in 2007 became a Barrister-at-law at Lincoln’s Inn. She was admitted to the Cyprus Bar Association in 2008 and went on to earn an LLM in International Financial Law in 2009 from King’s College London.

In 2017 she has successfully completed the Introductory Course and Module 2 in International Arbitration through the Cyprus Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

In 2022, Katerina was approved and registered as a practising barrister before the DIFC Courts. Between 2020 and 2022, she actively participated in virtual hearings before both the DIFC Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeal, dealing with complex, high-value disputes alongside international colleagues.

Her areas of expertise include local and multi-jurisdictional litigation, including shareholder disputes and corporate litigation, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards, injunctive reliefs, arbitration proceedings, as well as winding-up, insolvency and receivership proceedings.

Katerina authored several legal publications and she is fluent in Greek (mother tongue) and English and has basic knowledge of French.