Dispute Resolution

A.G. Erotocritou LLC’s "market-leading dispute resolution team" is consistently recognised as one of the leading litigation and arbitration teams in Cyprus, with top-tier rankings and repeated recognition by leading international legal directories, including Legal 500, Chambers and Partners and Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal). Our "professional, reliable and committed" team is regularly commended for its responsiveness, commercial acumen and strong advocacy in complex, high-value domestic and cross-border disputes.

In every matter, we work closely with our clients to explore avenues for avoiding litigation while still achieving their commercial objectives. Where proceedings cannot be avoided, we develop focused and strategic approaches aligned with our clients’ aims, carefully weighing all relevant legal and commercial risks. Each case is approached with innovative, tailored strategies designed to secure the most effective outcome within the shortest possible timeframe. To ensure the highest level of responsiveness and partner-led attention, we intentionally maintain a selective caseload, enabling us to provide a highly personalised service consistent with the standards of leading international firms.

Our team's practice covers a broad range of contentious matters, with particular strength in fraud and asset recovery, urgent interim relief applications, recognition and enforcement proceedings, banking and finance disputes, insolvency matters, corporate and shareholder disputes, debt recovery, intellectual property claims, property-related disputes, administrative law recourses and derivative actions.

Our firm is usually instructed to act swiftly and strategically in matters involving dissipation risks, concealed assets and cross-border recovery efforts, regularly advising on and obtaining urgent interim relief measures. The firm's dispute resolution team is also widely experienced in the recognition and enforcement in Cyprus of foreign court judgments and arbitral awards, as well as in resisting recognition and enforcement proceedings where appropriate. We are often engaged to advise international law firms, financial institutions, corporates and HNWI on the enforcement of foreign judgments, arbitral awards or obtaining relief in aid of foreign proceedings. Our arbitration practice is equally well established, covering all aspects of domestic and international arbitration, including drafting and interpretation of arbitration clauses, jurisdictional challenges, appointment of arbitrators, conduct of proceedings, interim measures in support of arbitration, and recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards.

A.G. Erotocritou's team combines acute legal and commercial judgment with a results-driven ethos, meticulous attention to detail and persuasive advocacy, enabling us to meet our clients’ objectives and exceed expectations.

In order to maintain our specialist focus and remain entirely conflict-free, the firm does not provide fiduciary, trustee or company administration services. This enables us to accept instructions from underlying clients and international firms in complex disputes involving Cyprus structures, without conflicts that commonly arise in the local market.

Recent instructions in dispute resolution include:

• Representing the European Union and the European Investment Bank in enforcing a multimillion judgment of the Commercial Court of England against a state, and successfully recovering sums in excess of EUR 20 million from a state-owned entity that was treated as the state's alter ego. 
• Enforcing a judgment against a Latin American state of approx. EUR 12 billon. 
• Acting in a multijurisdictional dispute between successors of an UHNWI, in a dispute over his estate which is estimated to be worth over USD 4 billion.
• Representing an investor in complex tech litigation concerning IP rights over an AI-powered online application.
• Acting in the USD 840 million dispute over the privatisation of a leading telecom provider in the CIS area. The dispute involved parallel proceedings in London, Cyprus and Ukraine and has attracted wide-spread press coverage, as a world-wide freezing injunction issued in Cyprus covered the personal assets of an UHNWI.
• Advising on a multi-jurisdictional criminal investigation being led by the German authorities, which included the issuance and execution of urgent search warrants in Cyprus against a major tech company
• Representing a developer in a dispute over a mobile-device game with over 100 million active users, in the course of which injunctions were secured in Cyprus, ordering the game to be returned to the developer. 
• Representing a group of investors who were defrauded through a multimillion Ponzi scheme, in asset tracing proceedings in the course of which discovery orders were secured and executed against various banks and service providers in Cyprus.
• Acting as Cyprus counsel for a HNWI in relation to a dispute over an oil venture, both in terms of supporting the substantive proceedings taking place before the Supreme Court of New York on Cyprus-law matters and ttaking a leading role in the Rogatory Proceedings raised in Cyprus which involved the cross examinations of key witnesses residing in Cyprus. The value of the case exceeds USD 2 billion.

For further information or in case you have any legal issues, please contact us at:

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