Partner and Head of the firm’s Banking & Finance and Insurance Law Departments, Nicolas Kyriakides is one of Cyprus’s most celebrated 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 and he is the author of the book Cyprus Banking Law by Nomiki Vivliothiki.
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 Spoken:
English, Greek, French
Professional Memberships
President of the Committee on Civil Procedure Rules and Reform of the Cyprus Bar Association and Committee Member of the Larnaca Bar Association
Board member of the Larnaca Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Founding member of the Cyprus Forum of Insurance Lawyers
Member of the Board of Directors of the Cyprus Arbitration Forum
Founding member of the Cyprus Forum and Nomoplatform
Member of the Board of the Cyprus Lobbyists and Public Affairs Professionals
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
EXPERTISE
Banking and Finance, Insurance Law and Personal Injury
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
DPhil (PhD), University of Oxford, 2016 LLM, New York University, 2013 MSt, University of Oxford, 2012 LLM, Corporate Law University College London, 2011 LLB, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2010
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Member of the Cyprus Bar Association, 2014
