Member Profile

CHRISTIANA PETROU MILIS LLC

Since its inception, CPM has been developed rapidly. It consists of young and energetic teams of lawyers and company administration specialists.

CPM via its network provides a broad ranges of business and litigation services from the complex issues facing large organizations, companies and entrepreneurs to every private individual or investor.

CPM’s philosophy is to provide high quality, practical and cost-effective solutions to its clients in a personalized manner and within reasonable time limits. CPM is totally focused on building trusting relationships with you, by providing you with honest, achievable and profitable advises.

CPMs provides legal advice and support in the following practice areas:

• formation and buyouts of companies in Cyprus and abroad

• shareholder agreements and corporate governance issues

• regulatory compliance (banking and financial services regulation)

• corporate finance transactions

• public and private offerings of securities and securities law compliance

• mergers and acquisitions

• corporate management and domiciliation services

• cross-border transactions and joint ventures

• insolvency advice and restructurings

• domestic and cross-border loan and security transactions

• loan documentation for single-lender and syndicated loans

• security documentation including charges over assets and undertakings of companies, debentures, pledges of share certificates, security assignments of rights

• restructuring of existing loans and collateral

• refinancing of existing debts

• project finance and asset finance

• construction and project financing

• indemnities and guarantees

• compliance with perfection requirements and registrations of charges

• legal opinions and legal due diligence exercises

PRACTISE AREA:

• Arbitration

• Banking and Finance

• Contract Law

• Corporate and Commercial Law

• Planning

• Criminal Law

• E-Commerce Law

• Employment Law

• Family Law

• Intellectual Property

• International Tax

• Fiduciary and company administration services

• Litigation

• Real Estate

• Shipping and Admiralty

• Trusts and Succession

• Corporate Secretarial

• Escrow Agen

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

IP law is one of CPMs legal key components since CPM is highly involved in research and development of new projects that needs high standards of legal support in the fields of IT and IP law. CPMs has an extensive experience and understating of legal protection that is needed on electronic commerce issues but also on the development and lunching of new technology.

INTERNATIONAL TAX PLANNING

Our Tax Department works closely with our associate firms in Europe and abroad to provide tailored international tax planning solutions relevant to your needs.

CORPORATE AND COMMERCIAL

CPMs firms corporate department consists of corporate consultants with specialization on corporate and tax law. With the association of BLACKMILLS group of companies CPMs provides a full range of services in the field of corporate law and corporate administration.

CPMs provides all the corporate litigation services including any application is needed to be done on behalf of company at the Cyprus courts, merger and acquistions, restoration of companies, legal opinions and advices on any field of corporate and companies law.

EDUCATION

Master in Business Administration (MBA)

University: CIIM Business School

Sep06-Sep.08 LLM-IT & Telecommunications Law (Distance Learning)

Glasgow Graduate School of Law:

University of Glasgow (& University of Strathclyde)

Sep04-Sep.05 LLM-Commercial Law

Glasgow Graduate School of Law:

University of Glasgow (& University of Strathclyde)

Oct97-Jul02 Ptixio Nomikis (Law Degree)

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Questions Regarding Information Technology Law-2016

Partnerships and Business Names Law, Cap. 116 (The Limited Liability Partnership)-2016

Residential Property In Cyprus -2016.

T Trademarks (What, Who, Why?) -2016.

Merger Control, by Christiana Petrou & Marinella Kilikitas

(Merger Control 2007-A Global Competition Review special report (11th annual edition)

European Cross Border Insolvency Cyprus Chapter, by Elias Neocleous, Christiana Petrou,

European Cross Border Insolvency, Allen & Overy and Sweet & Maxwell,

General Editor: Jeniffer Marshall

E-Signature, By Christiana Petrou

Magazine of CCS-SIG IT dedicated to IT Law in Cyprus

International Banking Law and Regulation, by Andreas Neocleous & Christiana Petrou

Editor: Center for International Legal Studies, Salzburg, Austria/ Published 2000, continuously revised and updated, Volume 2

LLM Diploma Thesis: Electronic Crime in Cyprus (E-economic Crime).

LLM Diploma Thesis: Electronic Funds Transfer in the UK and in Cyprus (e-Banking)

The Duty of Confidentiality in the UK and in Cyprus (comparative approach)

International Monetary Fund: Criticism

Limited Liability Company: Risk for the Creditors?

Copyright and the Internet

Jan.15 ASOCIACION EUROPEA DE ABOGADOS

April 10 International Bar Association (Membership No: 1039910)

Dec05 Cyprus Bar Association (Membership No: EE0013)

Dec05 Famagusta Bar Association (Membership No: EE0013)

Sep04 Bar Association of Heraklion Crete (Membership No: 1190)

Jul 02 Member of the Bar Association of Thessaloniki (Membership No: 340/2002)

Exams of Greece Bar Association: 8, 52 /10 Distinction