Pantelis Christofides
Pantelis Christofides

Partner

Contact Information

L Papaphilippou & Co LLC 17, Ifigenias Street, 2007 Strovolos,
Nicosia, Cyprus | P. O. Box 28541 2080 Nicosia, Cyprus

Languages: Greek, English, French

Practise Group: Regulatory, Corporate & Commercial, Litigation & Arbitration, Competition, International Tax Law

email pc@papaphilippou.eu

Pantelis Christofides is the Head of our Regulatory practice group and a member of our Corporate & Commercial practice group. He has extensive experience advising domestic and international clients, including NYSE and NASDAQ listed companies.

His wealth of knowledge covers matters of EU law, protection of competition law, concentration control law, international private and public law, Anti - Money Laundering, human rights law, and data protection law.

Pantelis has represented clients before the competent authorities of the Republic of Cyprus, including District Courts, the Supreme Court of Cyprus, the Commission for the Protection of Competition of the Republic of Cyprus (CPC), handling notifications of concentrations in relation to both domestic and international clients, including NYSE listed companies, as well as being a defence team member in relation to alleged concerted practice proceedings, and the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection, assisting in the preparation and filing of notifications before the Office of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection and acting in relation to complaint proceedings before the said Office.

He has advised on numerous occasions on matters of Inter-State Criminal Law such as the application of the Framework Decision on the European Arrest Warrant, White Collar Crime, Anti – Corruption, Anti – Money Laundering and Sanctions related legislative provisions as well as represented clients before the competent Authorities of the Republic of Cyprus.  He is also a Non - Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN).

Pantelis has been nominated by his peers and has been included in the Who’s Who Legal Competition 2019 as a leading practitioner in the field of Competition Law (see to that effect the WWL website at https://whoswholegal.com/pantelis-christofides).  

Qualifications & Education

  • Admitted to the Cyprus Bar Association, 2008
  • Member of the Nicosia Bar Association
  • Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (ACIArb)
  • University of Leicester LLB with First Class Honours
  • University of Cambridge , European Law (Fitzwilliam College), LLM
  • Nottingham Law School, Professional Diploma in Legal Practice

Published work

  1. Cyprus National Chapter, co - authored with Ms. Lydia Liassides, LLB (Hons) (Dublin Business School) and LLM (UCL), Advocate, Associate at L. PAPAPHILIPPOU & CO LLC, on ‘Private Enforcement and Collective Redress in European Competition Law Private Enforcement and Collective Redress in European Competition Law’ FIDE Budapest 2016 Congress Proceedings Vol.2., Eds.: Gy. Bandi - P. Darak - P. Lancos - T. Toth, Wolters Kluwer, 2016, pp.325 - 349.
  1. ‘Of Certain Selling Arrangements: Keck and its Legacy in the Dock’, Cyprus & European Law Review, Volume 5, October 2007, 299-321.
  2. A Comparative Study of Costs in Defamation Proceedings Across Europe, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, December 2008, contributor with Mr. Leandros Papaphilippou regarding Republic of Cyprus.
  3. Online Publications at the International Law Office (ILO) website regarding the Protection of Competition Law and the Concentration Control Law of the Republic of Cyprus during the years 2012 - 2017.
  4. Study on Directors ‘Duties and Liability prepared for the European Commission DG Markt by Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, Philipp Paech and Edmund Philipp Schuster (Department of Law, London School of Economics), London, April 2013, Country Reviewer for the Republic of Cyprus with Mr. Loukis Papaphilippou.
  5. Privatisation – The Legislative Framework So Far: Country Report on the Republic of Cyprus co-authored with Mr. George Valiantis, Senior Associate of L. PAPAPHILIPPOU & CO LLC - European Networks Law Review (ENLR) Volume 4/2014 pages 309 - 312.
  6. Cyprus Chapter in ‘Cartel Regulation 2015’, Getting the Deal Through, pages 57 - 62. 

 

 

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Telephone +357 22271000
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