The Legal 500

Within Banking and finance, Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC is a second tier firm,

Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC provides comprehensive banking and finance advice and recently acted on various high-value facility agreements, including assisting a Russian bank with acquisition finance and project finance mandates. Stavros Pavlou is ‘an experienced lawyer with a very practical and business-oriented approach’, and Stella Louca Pavlou and Lia Iordanou Theodoulou are recommended for banking and corporate finance respectively.

Within Corporate and M&A, Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC is a second tier firm,

Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC ‘provides excellent service and delivers required results’, and its lawyers are ‘real experts in Cypriot and international law’. The team recently advised a natural gas producer on the $400m sale of its stake in three holding companies. Practice head Stavros Pavlou and corporate finance partner Lia Iordanou Theodoulou are ‘excellent lawyers with deep and practical knowledge of complex transactions’.

Within Dispute resolution, Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC is a first tier firm,

Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC’s ‘excellent’ and ‘very creative’ dispute resolution team recently defended a multinational group of companies against a hostile takeover of its subsidiary in Cyprus. Chrysostomos Nicolaou led that matter. Stavros Pavlou heads the practice.

Within Tax, Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC is a second tier firm,

Patrikios Pavlou & Associates LLC’s tax practice complements the firm’s corporate and M&A work. It recently advised on the implement-ation of a tax structure involving the exploitation of IP rights. It is also representing a group of civil servants in challenging allegedly unconstitutional tax cuts brought in by the government of Cyprus. Stavros Pavlou is recommended.