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Christiana Aristidou is an experienced international business law practitioner, acknowledged as such, by Cyprus’s local, as well as international, media industries. She is a global legal business consultant and a licensed lawyer and litigator of the Cyprus Bar Association. She has over 17 years’ experience in the international business legal arena, with unique knowledge and expertise in international corporate structuring, including offshore structuring and international tax planning along with intellectual property protection strategies with specialisation in intellectual property tax planning and structuring of IP rights and technology agreements. Being a litigator, she also deals with advanced business and corporate law litigation and arbitration and as she strongly believes, the fact that she incorporates courtroom experience into her practice is what actually gives her the comparative advantage and puts her ahead. She has successfully represented individuals and corporations in many countries across the globe. Christiana posses unparalleled negotiation skills and uses these skills strategically in combination with her academic knowledge and crystallised intelligence, her highly sociable character as well as her increased emotional intelligence to find a solution and achieve the best possible result. Christiana graduated from the top Law School University in Athens, Greece and was then awarded three UK Law Master’s degrees; LLM in English common law (UEA), LLM in international commercial and business law (UEA) and LLM in telecommunications and computer law by Queen Mary University of London. She is a partner at Democritos Aristidou & Co, in Limassol, Cyprus and she currently heads the firm’s international business, tax and IP law department. Christiana is a popular author, with numerous publications over the years in famous on-line legal databases and magazines and a frequent speaker at seminars and other events. To access her full biography, please visit www.aristidou.com or google Christiana Aristidou.

2011: LL.M in Computers and Telecommunications Law, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

1997: LL.M in International Commercial and Business Law, UEA, UK (Economic Law of the European Community, International Taxation Law, International Commercial Arbitration, Carriage of goods by sea and other means, freight Contracts.)

1996: LLM in Common Law, University of East Anglia, UK (All main subjects of UK Common Law, English Legal System and Courts, Company Law, Contract Law, Tort Law, Criminal Law etc)

1988-1994: PTYCHION/Law Degree, National Law School of Athens-GREECE National Kapodestrian University: School of Law

2015, May: The Issue Is To Find New Ways To Respect Intellectual Property Rights, That Are Consonant With The World We Now Live In, (MONDAQ)

2015, April: Drafted and issued the "Democritos Aristidou & Co Law Firm ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING COMPLIANCE MANUAL 2015"

2014, October 9th: CYPRUS-TRADEMARKS 2015, A contribution of whole chapter (31 questions answered) on trademarks to GETTING THE DEAL THROUGH online legal database. https://gettingthedealthrough.com/organisation/24752/democritos-aristidou-co/

2014, September: Negotiation? Mediation? Arbitration? Find Your Preferred Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Choice!, (MONDAQ)

2014, September: Cyprus: The three most popular types of International Business Companies (IBCs)operating through Cyprus: Financing, Holding and Trading Companies, (MONDAQ)

2014, September: Cyprus Yacht Leasing Scheme: An Update, Following The Recent VAT Circular 181, 2014 (MONDAQ)

2014, July: Trademarks v. Domain Names v. Trademarks = Bulk Of Leading Court decisions (MONDAQ)

2014, July: Helpful List Of Leading Examples Of Acceptable Trademarks, Trademarks Refused On Absolute Grounds And Trademarks Refused On Relative (MONDAQ)

2014, June: AWARDED the MOST POPULAR ARTICLE AWARD Outsourcing, IT Outsourcing and Intellectual Property Rights Issues (MONDAQ)

2014, June: The Firm Has A New IT Client! A Partner Has Asked You To Review All Of The Intellectual Property Due Diligence That May Be At Issue (MONDAQ)

2014, May: Trade Mark Infringement And Dilution As Causes Of Action: The US And UK Framework, (MONDAQ)

2012, December 7th: Cyprus International Trusts, (Cyprus Law Digest)

2011, December: Trade Mark Infringement On The Internet: Current Issues And Concerns In Europe (Sponsored Links, Search Engines And Shopping On The Internet) - Part 1 (MONDAQ)

2011, December: Trade Mark Infringement On The Internet: Current Issues And Concerns In Europe (Keywords, Keyword Advertising And The GOOGLE AdWords Case) - Part 2 (MONDAQ)

2011, December: Trade Mark Infringement On The Internet: Current Issues And Concerns In Europe (Online Marketplaces, eBay, L'Oreal v. eBay: A Case With No Winners) - Part 3 (MONDAQ)

2011, December: Trade Mark Infringement On The Internet: Current Issues And Concerns In Europe (General Conclusions As To PART 1, PART 2 And PART 3) - Part 4 (MONDAQ)

2011, September: Trade Mark Infringement on the Internet: Current Issues and Concerns in Europe. ( THESIS submitted to Queen Mary University of London, UK)

2010, May: Practical Issues of Cypriot Private Company for Practitioners and Administrators. (teaching in a two-day seminar in LEXACT Company, Nicosia, Cyprus)

2010, April: E- Commerce Taxation: Cyprus, Treaty Characterization Issues. (Presentation in BOSCO Conference in Kiev, Ukraine)

2010, February: The EU Has/Has Not Achieved A Proper Balance Between Competition Law And Intellectual Property (MONDAQ)

2010, January: E- Commerce Taxation, Treaty Characterization Issues: Direct Taxation ( Article) Published in the website MONDAQ Legal News Network, www.mondaq.com on the 29th of January 2010

2009, December: CYPRIOT LAW: Judicial System and Court Procedure. (Article)

2009, May: The UDRP is an international scandal as the procedure is clearly biased towards trademark holders. Discuss (Article)

2009, March: Internet, Freedom of Expression and Contempt of Court: Moving away from the traditional rules? (Article)

2009, February: E- Commerce Taxation: Direct Taxation (Research Presentation at Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

2008, April: Online Contracts, Controlled by Lawyers or Technologists? ( Research) published in the Cyprus Legal Step, 18th year (third period) 3rd Issue- 2008, September- December. It was also published in the website of MONDAQ Legal News Network, www. mondaq.com on the 27th of July 2009.

2008, January The Role of a Company Secretary in a Cyprus International Business Ltd Company. (Article) Published in the website of MONDAQ Legal News Network, www. mondaq.com on the 16th of September 2009.

2008, January Legal Issues that arise from setting up a website. ( Article) Published in the website of MONDAQ Legal News Network, www. mondaq.com on the 12th of May 2009.

2008, January What we call Comparative Advertising, is it allowed?

2007, April The EU has/has not achieved a proper balance between Competition Law and Intellectual Property. (Research) Published in the website of MONDAQ Legal News Network, www. mondaq.com on the 4th of February 2010.

2007, April The significance of the ECJ decision in Tetra/ sidel or EU merger control (Article, arguments in relation to the decision)

2007, March The Economic case against Monopoly. (Article)

2006, March The Doctrine of essential facilities. (Article)

2006, January E- Commerce and Community Law- Council Directive 2000/3/EL Cyprus Law 156(1)/ 2004 ( Research) Published in the « Computer Science» of Cyprus Computer Society in June 2006 in the Special Edition of Computer Science p. 7-12

2005, June Legal Issues of Online Arbitration. ( Article)

2005, April Copyright Infringement and the Shetland Times Case. ( Article, arguments in relation to the Decision)

2005, April Will a Database be considered as being utilized as a result of “deep- linking” or “framing” and thus constitute an infringement of the sui generis database right?

2004, December E- Commerce and Community Law- Council Directive 2000/3/EL CyprusLaw 156(1)/2004 (Article)

2000, January Ability to contract. (Research)

1998, January The notion of consideration in English Common Law. (Research)

1996, October States Aids in the European Community : Recovery of Unlawful State Aids. (THESIS)

1995, September The duty of care and Professional Negligence. (THESIS)

1988, December Analysis of the different interpretation methods of the Greek Constitution. (Research)

Lawyer-Member of Cyprus Bar Association since 1997

• Partner-Lawyer-Litigator- DEMOCRITOS ARISTIDOU & CO LAW FIRM

• Head of International Business, Tax and Intellectual Property Law Department.

• Director of IPTechMediaOffice, an office set up within the Department of International Business, Tax and IP Law for providing special legal services in the fields of Technology Law, IP Law and Media Law and to support innovation and Start-Ups.

• Member of the Board of Directors of LANITIS GREEN ENERGY GROUP since 2012