About
Stelios Americanos & Co LLC is a full-service commercial law firm headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus, specializing in corporate and commercial law, banking and finance, litigation, tax and financial advisory services. The firm advises a broad range of local and international clients — including banks, investment firms, public and private companies and high-net-worth individuals — and regularly handles complex cross-border transactions, asset and project finance, securitisations, mergers, acquisitions and restructurings.
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Lawyers at this firm
Akis Koumas
Mr. Koumas is Senior Associate in our firm since October 2016. He specializes and has a considerable experience in litigation and advocacy with particular expertise and interest in contracts, commercial, corporate litigation, torts, company and banking law. He has also been involved in providing legal advice and representing banks in court, in cases related to matters which include among others credit facilities, receivers and managers, criminal complaints against banks, interpleader actions, CHF loans, garnishee proceedings, allegations of negligence and fraud against banks and other cases. Among his most notable and groundbreaking professional successes, Mr. Koumas has achieved the discharge of interim prohibitory orders against a bank and receivers and managers appointed out of court by the bank, under the terms of a floating charge and also the discharge of interim proceedings against a Cypriot bank by which the applicants sought to prohibit the bank from proceeding with foreclosure of their property. · Litigation
Andreas Parpas
Associate, Advocate. Mr. Parpas is Associate and member of four Departments of our law firm, (i) Litigation & Arbitration, (ii) Banking & Finance, (iii) Restructuring, Receivership & Liquidation, and (iv) Real Estate, Immigration & Citizenship. He specializes in practice areas of cross-reference and mutual interest between those departments, especially corporate disputes, real estate and asset finance, and debt restructuring. · Litigation & Arbitration
Chloe Americanos
Lawyer - Associate
Despina Americanou
Partner, Advocate, Head of the Banking and Finance Department. The focus areas of Mrs. Americanou are Loan Agreements, Shares Purchase Agreements, Shareholders Agreements as well as Securities Agreements. She has participated and offered legal assistance on Banking & Finance issues, corporate matters, and Merger and Acquisitions. She acted as special Cyprus law counsel in various multinational cross border transactions in which she advised on aspects of Cyprus law pertaining to Financing and Securities Agreements. · Banking & Finance
Fotini Ntorzi
Lawyer - Associate · Corporate / M&A
George Andreou
Associate, Advocate. He specializes in practice areas of drafting, negotiating and reviewing of all types of corporate documents and execution of international transactions on international and domestic projects. He was involved, amongst others, in complex share purchase agreements, due diligence reports, and provision of legal opinions on various corporate law matters. · Corporate / M&A
Georgia Georgiadou
Associate, Advocate. She specializes in Civil and Criminal Law. · Civil Litigation
Ioanna Katsidima
Associate, Advocate. She specializes in the areas of Administrative Law and Civil Law. · Administrative Law
Michalis Zambyrinis
Associate, Lawyer. He is member of three departments: (i) Banking & Finance, (ii) Corporate & Commercial and (ii) Mergers & Acquisitions. During his career, Mr. Michalis Zambyrinis acquired significant legal expertise in cross-border and multi-jurisdictional projects related to mergers and acquisitions as well as to project finance. His work involves, among others, drafting, negotiating and reviewing several types of commercial agreements, including finance documents, share purchase agreements and joint venture agreements, providing legal advice on various corporate law issues as well as participating in the preparation of legal due-diligence reports. · Banking & Finance
Olga Petrova
Associate, Advocate. Ms. Petrova specializes in Banking & Finance and Corporate & Commercial Law. She has gained valuable expertise in reviewing and drafting share purchase agreements, shareholders agreements, share pledge agreements, security documents, loans and other financial documentation. She also provides practical assistance to international clients on various legal matters, especially in complex cross-border multilingual transactions. · Banking & Finance
Soteris Costa
Partner, Advocate, Head of the Litigation & Arbitration Department. He is currently heavily involved in and handles major corporate law disputes with an international element. At the same time, he assists and offers advice on many corporate and commercial-related projects. · Litigation
Stelios Americanos
Managing Partner, Advocate, Head of the Corporate and Commercial Department, the Mergers & Acquisitions Department, and that of Real Estate, Immigration & Citizenship. Besides, he also heads the teams of lawyers on Projects relating to Aviation, Energy, cross-border transactions, and debt arrangements. · Corporate / M&A
Thanos Fiakas
Associate, Advocate member of three departments of our law firm, (i) Litigation & Arbitration, (ii) Mergers & Acquisitions and (iii) Real Estate, Immigration & Citizenship. During his career, Mr. Fiakas has contributed to numerous significant transactional projects in various sectors of the economy, while he also provides advisory services to international clients on the governmental schemes concerning citizenship by investment and residency permits. · Litigation & Arbitration
