Associate

Katerina Petridou is a member of our Corporate and Commercial Litigation practice group with main focus in insolvency, insurance, injury claims, accidents and commercial litigation. She has extensive experience advising on solvency and bankruptcy issues and she is a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner by the Cyprus Bar Association and she is authorized to provide formal appointment as a Liquidator in winding up procedures under Cyprus Law.

She has significant experience in a wide range of contentious matters, focusing on commercial litigation and corporate disputes, winding-up applications and liquidation procedure, breach of contract, commercial disputes and personal injury claims and accidents.

She also represents clients in multi-jurisdictional cases which require the issuance of interim freezing and disclosure injunctions in management and corporate control disputes, derivative shareholders’ claims, breach of fiduciary duties claims, injury claims and accidents, complex insolvency litigation cases involving legal entities under liquidation or administration.

Besides representing prominent local and international clients before the Supreme and District Courts of the Republic of Cyprus, she advises clients on commercial agreements and strategies to reduce their potential exposure to litigation and she has vast experience in shareholder’s disputes, injunctive relief, recognition and enforcement proceedings of foreign judgments as well as in insolvency proceedings. 

Qualifications & Education

• Admitted to the Cyprus Bar Association,  2001
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece
• University of Leicester in European Union Law (Commercial), LLM
• Licensed as an Insolvency Practitioner by the Cyprus Bar Association