Marina Hadjisoteriou

Partner at Michael Kyprianou Law Firm (Cyprus)

Speaker

Marina Hadjisoteriou is a Partner and she heads the Limassol dispute resolution department of Michael Kyprianou Law Firm, one of the largest law firms in Cyprus.Her main areas of practice are asset recovery, cross-border commercial litigation, international arbitration and insolvency.Marina has consistently been ranked by The Legal 500 EMEA as a ‘leading individual’ and has also been recommended by Chambers and Partners for dispute resolution in Cyprus. She has also been ranked as an asset recovery, commercial litigation, arbitration and insolvency leader in Cyprus by Who’s Who Legal (WWL).

The directories describe Marina as ‘one of the best dispute resolution practitioners in Cyprus’, who ‘crafts a legal case like a spider crafts his web‘. She ‘handles complex disputes across multiple jurisdictions well‘, ‘has an eye for business and is adept at spotting the issues quickly and understanding the commercial realities for her clients.’ She has significant experience of international high value, complex fraud and asset tracing cases involving world-wide freezing orders, disclosure orders and gagging orders. She has successfully represented parties in disputes arising out of breaches of shareholder agreements, breach of fiduciary duties and professional negligence. She is also vastly experienced in obtaining orders for the recognition of foreign court judgments and arbitral awards in Cyprus.

She has also successfully filed and defended liquidation applications by creditors or by minority shareholders alleging oppression. She has significant experience in all aspects of insolvency law and is frequently instructed to act for local or foreign office holders (liquidators, provisional liquidators, receivers and trustees in bankruptcy).Her clients include multi-nationals, banks and high-net-worth individuals.Marina holds a BSc in Accounting and Economics (First Class Honours) and she is a barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple. She is also a member of the Steering Committee of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) Europe and a member of the board of Directors of IWIRC Cyprus. She is also one of the directors of the Cyprus Arbitration Forum.