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Harris Kyriakides Offices
115 FANEROMENIS AVENUE
ANTOUANETTAS BUILDING
6031 LARNACA
Cyprus
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Dr Nicolas Kyriakides
Work Department
Banking & Finance, Insurance Law and Personal Injury
Position
Partner
Career
Partner and Head of the firm’s Banking & Finance and Insurance Law Departments, Nicolas Kyriakides is one of Cyprus’s most celebrated young commercial lawyers and academics. He is known as widely internationally as he is domestically: he is regularly involved in projects with the leading banking, finance and insurance brands in Cyprus, as well as foreign equivalents globally in relation to their Cypriot operations; and in addition to a doctorate from the University of Oxford with Professor Adrian Zuckerman, he is a two-time Master of Laws with qualifications from UCL and New York University. Nicolas has also been a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School (Spring 2020) with Professor David Rosenberg. He is a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. He also lectures regularly at the University of Nicosia.
Nicolas’s work encompasses the full range of insurance issues – clinical and professional negligence, motor accidents and employers’ and public liability. He advises both claimants and defendants (more common in Cyprus) so has a 360-degree view of the issues that arise on both sides of the equation, from which all his clients benefit. He also supervises teams advising insurance companies and banks on regulatory and compliance issues.
He is particularly known for his out-of-the-box legal thinking and his track record of establishing new legal concepts and ideas. He has contributed to a number of high-level innovative legal research initiatives and papers, particularly in the area of Civil Procedure, in the course of both his commercial practice and his academic life. As a result he is regularly consulted to advise on changing legislation and regulation.
Languages
Greek, English, French
Memberships
Member of the Cyprus Bar Association, 2014
Member of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Arbitration Forum
Founder and co-director of the Procedural Law Unit at the University of Nicosia
Fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI) and member of its Insurance Law SIG
Member of the Insurance Institute of Cyprus
Member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers
Education
DPhil (PhD), University of Oxford, 2016
LLM, New York University, 2013
MSt, University of Oxford, 2012
LLM in Corporate Law, University College London, 2011
LLB, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2010
Lawyer Rankings
Cyprus > Banking and finance
Harris Kyriakides‘ team stands out as ‘experienced‘ and ‘well-organised‘, with ‘a professional attitude‘. The banking and finance practice is very well versed in handling a broad range of matters, from corporate finance and regulatory compliance issues, to lending transactions and dispute resolution, as well as handling issues relating to non-performing loans. National and international banks, credit acquiring companies and financial institutions are included in the department’s client roster. The practice is led by the triumvirate of Nicolas Kyriakides, Phivos Zomenis, and Georgina Athanasiou.