Demetris Roti

Demetris Roti has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and banking and finance. He has acted in numerous substantial transactions whilst working in a top 25 City of London firm and for this firm on behalf of international law firms and institutional financiers, credit agencies and international commercial and development banks including China Development Bank, Citi, Deutsche Bank, EBRD and HSBC. Legal 500 notes Demetris Roti in banking and finance and corporate. Clients state on Legal 500 Demetris’ main features are “attention to detail; flagging issues arising in the context of the proposed course of action and addressing them; good communication between them and with collaborating attorney; and inter-changeable availability at all times and on short notice”. IFLR lists Demetris as ‘Notable Practitioner’.

• Advised a consortium including Trafigura in relation to the USD 12.9 billion purchase of India’s Essar Oil Ltd which was India’s largest ever foreign direct investment transaction;
• Advised a consortium including Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, China Limited and ING Bank N.V., in relation to a $1 billion project financing Lukoil Overseas Shah Deniz Ltd in relation to stage 2 of the of the Shah Deniz gas development project in Azerbaijan;
• Assisted BW Offshore (which is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange) refinance the USD 2.4 billion facility into a five-year senior secured USD 672.5 million revolving credit facility
• Advised a group of entities which includes an entity listed on the LSE regarding the group’s several re-financings amounting to US $557 million
• Advised General Electric regarding the USD150 million debt financing package provided to LongWing Energy S.C.A. regarding the first phase of the Zaporizhia Wind Farm.

• Asset finance
• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Derivatives
• Capital markets: Equity
• Capital markets: High yield
• Competition
• Corporate & Commercial
• Financial restructuring
• Investment funds
• Private equity
• Project bonds
• Project finance
• Restructuring and insolvency

• Accounting
• Banking
• Financial services

• Graduated in law, University of Manchester, 2005
• Legal Practice Course, BPP Professional Education, 2006
• AimHigher, Department for Education and Skill, 2006

• Cyprus Bar Association, 2010