Costas Stamatiou

Costas has extensive experience in corporate, commercial, finance and shipping law matters and associated litigation. He has been a member of the shipping committee of the Cyprus Bar Association since 2010 and also acts as a visiting lecturer at a local university. He is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner.

• Advising on enforcement and insolvency proceedings including winding up applications, appointment of provisional liquidator, examinership and schemes of arrangement
• Advising a leading international bank on the debt restructuring of a major Cyprus based ship owner and operator
• Advising the receiver of a group of companies in relation to preferential payments and sale of assets
• Acting for a client in multi-million debt recovery and ship arrest proceedings
• Acting as local counsel of the Cyprus arm of a global container and logistics conglomerate and advising on disputes concerning the carriage of goods by sea.

• M&A
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Litigation and Dispute Resolution

• Shipping

• Graduated in law, University of Wales, 2001
• LLM Legal Aspects of Marine Affairs, University of Wales, 2002
• LLM European Law, Bristol University, 2003

• Licensed Insolvency Practitioner, 2015
• Frederick University Cyprus (Special Teaching Staff)

• Cyprus Bar Association, 2004