Andrew Demetriou

Andrew Demetriou

Education: Liverpool University, LL.B (Hons); Grays Inn Barrister-at-Law; FCI. Arb, Chartered Arbitrator. Member: Cyprus Bar Association (1985); Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; International Panel Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; London Court of International Arbitration, Registered Trusts and Estates Practitioner.

Practice: construction and engineering law, energy law, commercial law, investments, international transactions, corporate law, stock exchange listings, civil litigation and arbitrations, leading counsel in major disputes; chartered arbitrator.

Languages: Greek, English.

The firm

IOANNIDES DEMETRIOU LLC is a full-service commercial law firm with offices in Nicosia and Limassol. The firm has a dynamic team dedicated to working for the fulfillment of the firm’s mission and to exacting quality standards (ISO 9001:2000). The standard ensures that all processes adopted by the firm are carefully decided and are rigorously followed in order to ensure the highest standards of service to clients.

IOANNIDES DEMETRIOU LLC is in a position to meet and exceed the expectations and demands placed upon it by the firm's enviable client base which includes amongst others international and local banks, public bodies, semi-governmental organisations, public and private foundations, universities, international and local contractors and consultants and major international and local commercial enterprises, concession holders and businesses, insurance, hotel/tourism companies and shipping companies.

The firm's lawyers have acted as legal advisers to some of Cyprus' biggest financial deals. To this respect, the firm has extensive in-house expertise in several key sectors of the market and professionals who are highly respected by both the local and the international community.

Litigation/ADR

The firm's civil and administrative law litigation lawyers provide the full range of civil and public/administrative law litigation services. The litigation team is renowned for its expertise in the fields of both international and local commercial litigation, including banking, financial disputes and public and administrative law recourses before the courts of Cyprus and administrative organs such as tender review authorities and competition tribunals and the full range of arbitration and ADR services. The firm has been involved in many of the largest civil litigation suits heard in Cyprus and regularly represents foreign governments and private clients before the courts of Cyprus.