Mr Michael Davies > AGPLAW | A.G. Paphitis & Co. LLC > Limassol, Cyprus > Lawyer Profile

Mr Michael Davies

+357 25 731000 agp@agplaw.com View profile

Work Department

Commercial, corporate and M&A, Banking & Finance, Trusts, IP, Shipping & Energy

Position

Senior Legal Counsel

Career

Senior counsel with an astonishing legal practice of over 30 years of experience in commercial & corporate, banking & finance, Trusts, IP, oil & gas, shipping & energy fields of law; Michael can be a valuable asset for clients in need of high end legal support.

Michael specialises in corporate and commercial, contract, negligence, shipping and maritime, oil and gas and renewable technology matters; he is also a specialist in intellectual property having sealed patents for significant new technologies worldwide.

Michael advises on a number of legal areas with a global client base. He has over 30 years of practicing experience in the fields of business law with a particular specialization in contracts and corporate law (transactions; advising banks, entrepreneurs and businesses; trusts and foundations; including the most complex intellectual property M&A and tax structures globally). In addition, in the last decade Michael focused on shipping as well as on the oil and gas and renewable energy sectors.

Michael was born in Wales. He graduated from the University of Wales with a BSc Econ in Law, Economics and Politics before receiving an LL.M from Reading University. After studying in England for the Bar he worked as a member of the Crown Prosecution Service, prosecuting for the Crown Court section. He then moved into academic life, becoming lecturer then Senior Tutor in Law at Leicester University but also guest visiting associate professor at some of the world’s top universities, such as Harvard, Warsaw, and the Sorbonne. Michael moved to Cyprus as legal consultant in the early 2000s and remained active in practice ever since. He wrote a number of legal texts, including the groundbreaking Textbook on Medical Law, as well as works for the BMA and the GMC and has co-authored on Professional Liability, Law and Insurance for Lloyds of London.

He was also an adviser to private practice on quantum calculations in major medical negligence cases.

Michael has an extensive list of publications in many legal areas.

Languages

English

Memberships

• Barrister at Law (1989), Gray’s Inn (NP)
• Member of the International Bar Association
• Member of ITPA

Education

• LL.M (Hons), University of Reading
• BSc (Econ) (Hons) Law/Politics/Economics, University of Wales