Andreas Neocleous & Co

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Andreas Neocleous & Co
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Headquarters Limassol, Cyprus
No. of offices9 [1]
No. of lawyers130 [1]
Major practice areasFull-service firm
Revenue€29 million
Date founded1965 (Limassol)
Company type LLC
Website www.neocleous.com

Andreas Neocleous & Co LLC was Cyprus's largest law firm.[ citation needed ]

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It was the only Cyprus firm to appear in Legal Business's "Euro Elite" listing of the 100 most influential law firms in Europe and in the list of 100 largest law firms in Europe, published by The Lawyer. It was founded in Limassol in 1965 by Andreas Neocleous and also had offices in Nicosia and Paphos in Cyprus, and in Brussels, Kyiv, Prague, Budapest in mainland Europe and a number of non-exclusive arrangements with other overseas firms in specialist sectors, such as energy. [2]

Andreas Neocleous & Co specialised in serving international businesses and organisations and its main spheres of activity were cross-border investment and finance, shipping and large-scale commercial litigation. [3] Andreas Neocleous & Co was ranked as the leading firm in Cyprus by Legal 500, [4] PLC Which Lawyer, [5] Chambers Guides [6] and IFLR 1000. [7] The firm's Limassol office housed the Honorary Consulates of Japan and Portugal in Cyprus. [8] [9] [10] Andreas Neocleous & Co LLC was an active proponent to the business community and the public in Cyprus of the benefits of genuine licensed software. [11] The firm was widely consulted by the international press for comment and opinion regarding the Cyprus economic situation. [12] [13] [14] [15]

Bribery conviction

On February 8, 2017, former deputy attorney-general Rikkos Erotokritou, lawyers Andreas Kyprizoglou and Panayiotis Neocleous, and the Andreas Neocleous & Co LLC law firm were handed a guilty verdict by the Nicosia criminal court. Panayiotis Neocleous and the Neocleous law firm were found guilty of bribery, conspiracy, and corruption. [16] [17] The four were said to have colluded to arrange for Erotokritou to launch the criminal prosecution of five Russian individuals and one company, at the behest and to the benefit of the Neocleous law firm, which had long been battling them in Cypriot and Russian courts over ownership and control of Providencia, a trust-fund worth hundreds of millions. [18] [19]

Name change

Following the scandal and subsequent prison sentence of Panayiotis Neocleous, Andreas Neocleous & Co LLC transferred its business and operations to a new firm, Elias Neocleous & Co LLC. The new firm employs the same staff and operates from the same premises.

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  13. ↑ "Russians' Cypriot haven undisturbed by sanctions, tensions". Reuters. 27 March 2014.
  14. ↑ "Chypre : l'avocat qui a fait venir l'argent russe". 28 March 2013 – via Le Monde.
  15. ↑ http://www.vedomosti.ru/finance/news/22122081/depozity-ot-strzhalkovskog [ dead link ]
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