The Law firm was established by George Yiangou in 1981, focusing immediately on its international dimensions and clientele. The firm’s clients’ database is a worldwide one, representing both local, multinational and private clients at an international level. We have offices in Nicosia, Limassol (Cyprus) and a branch office in Athens (Greece), both staffed with bilingual employees and fully qualified lawyers, who speak Greek, English, Russian, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Romanian and Arabic. The firm is one of the largest law firms in Cyprus and is continually expanding, currently employing 15 qualified lawyers, tax consultants and 35 supporting staff. The firm handles the full range of legal services and specializes in the areas of Corporate & Commercial (Formation and administration of Cyprus Companies, Formation and use of Trusts, International Collective Investments Schemes, Mergers & Acquisitions, Cross-Border Transactions), Banking & Finance, Admiralty & Shipping, Litigation, Arbitration & General Practice, Real Estate, Tax Planning and Advising, Accounting & Audit. Our office in Athens specializes in General Litigation, Dispute Resolution, Real Estate, Construction Law and deals also with commercial and investment matters in Greece and all other Balkan countries. Especially as to M&A, George Y. Yiangou & Co has participated in a significant number of merger & acquisition transactions. Our expertise in this area includes the structuring of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, the drafting and negotiating of agreements, as well as general legal advice with respect to regulatory, securities, competition and labour matters. In what concerns Banking & Finance we have gained considerable expertise in providing our clients with legal services starting from simple matters as the account opening documentation used by banks and the entire spectrum of banking instruments and products to complicated matters as assistance in syndicated and bilateral lending, acquisition finance, refinancing and real estate financings. George Yiangou & Co acts on behalf of both lenders and borrowers in this complex field. We work closely in this respect with various international law/consulting firms and we have gained our reputation in successfully handling important projects at international level. Our aim is to provide our clients with prompt, practical and cost effective assistance and to pay personal attention to their individual requirements.
Our success is due to the strength of our professionalism: a combination of a high standard of service together with strict confidentiality.
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