Mr George Mountis > Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants > Nicosia, Cyprus > Lawyer Profile
Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants Offices
1 LAMPOUSAS STREET
1095 NICOSIA
Cyprus
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Mr George Mountis
Work Department
Litigation, Abritration and Mediation
Position
Co-Managing Partner
Career
George Mountis is a Partner and head of the firm’s litigation and dispute resolution department. He has a leading role in the handling of the major high-profile commercial and corporate litigation cases undertaken by the firm such as major shareholders disputes, multi-million commercial and corporate fraud, injunctions and insolvency proceedings. His experience in these areas is extensive and varied. He represents clients in all types of multi-jurisdictional cases, and his many years of courtroom experience render him one of the leading litigators in Cyprus.
George has a central role in the firm’s arbitration and mediation practice. Being a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators FCiArb, he has acquired significant experience in this area, both as a legal advisor and counsel, as well as an arbitrator. Furthermore, he is a CEDR Accredited Mediator and, as such, has helped many clients of the firm resolve individual, corporate and other types of claims and disputes amicably.
George further specialises in Competition Law. He is responsible for some of the firm’s most important, high-profile cases in this area. He holds a Diploma in Economics of Competition Law from King’s College London.
George is currently member of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, a leading non-profit medical centre in Cyprus and has also been appointed member of the Board of Directors of the Nicosia Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Languages
English, Greek
Memberships
Cyprus Bar Association
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators FCiArb
CEDR Accredited Mediator
Education
- Diploma, Economics of Competition Law, King’s College London
- LLM (Corporate & Commercial Law), London School of Economics & Political Science
- LLB (Hons), University of Kent
Lawyer Rankings
Cyprus > Dispute resolution
(Leading individuals)George Mountis – Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants
Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants fields a ‘very deep team‘; ‘the service is excellent and outstanding‘. The group has an excellent reputation for advising on complex litigation, and regularly appears before the Cyprus Courts and international arbitration centres. Practice head George Mountis is ‘always alert and proactive‘, and Victoria-Zoi Papagiannis has considerable experience in handling complex, high-value corporate and commercial disputes, often with cross-border elements, involving, among other issues, allegations of fraud. Dimitris Papapolyviou’s varied practice includes shareholder disputes and applications for interim relief. Georgia Georgiou advises on a broad spectrum of civil, commercial, and family law disputes.
Cyprus > Employment
Under the leadership of George Mountis and Alexandros Taliadoros, the employment practice at Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants has an excellent reputation for advising employees and senior executives on an array of complex and high-profile cases. The team is also adept at assisting public and private sector employers with the full range of employment matters. Key areas of instruction include compensation and benefit issues, data protection matters, restructurings, and disciplinary and grievance procedures. At associate level, Alexandros Efstathiou is singled out for his contributions.
Cyprus > EU and competition
Chrysostomides Advocates & Legal Consultants‘ dedicated EU and competition law department often acts as counsel to national government departments, European Commission directorates and multinational companies, and has an excellent reputation for handling competition law disputes and the competition law aspects of corporate and commercial transactions. The team is equally strong in assisting significant international investment institutions with providing services in accordance with the relevant applicable laws. George Mountis, Anna Rossides and Victoria-Zoi Papagiannis co-head the practice, in which Alexandros Efstathiou is a key name to note at associate level.
Lawyer Rankings
- Dispute resolution Cyprus
- Employment Cyprus
- EU and competition Cyprus
- Leading individuals Cyprus > Dispute resolution
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Employment
- EU and competition
- Intellectual property
- Tax