Maria Kyriacou

Maria is a Barrister at law, member of the Middle Temple in London and was admitted to the Cyprus Bar in 1974.

She was the Cyprus Registrar of Companies, Patents and Trade Marks, and Official Receiver until 2001 and a member of the Board of the European Patent Office in Munich.

She specializes in Company law, Insolvency, Corporate Rescue and Restructurings, Banking and Finance, Securitization and Non-Performing Loans, Revenue law, Consumer’s law and Competition, M&A, Trusts, Energy, Environment and Intellectual Property, Trade Marks Patents, Geographical Indications.

As Registrar of Companies of Cyprus, Maria has pioneered in establishing Cyprus as an International Financial and Shipping Center and in protecting intellectual property in Cyprus.

Maria’s over 40 years’ experience in Business Laws, includes a broad range of Corporate and restructuring assignments, Consumers and completion laws, tax-driven restructurings and refinancing and cross border reorganizations and asset tracing, Banking and Finance projects and Securitization and Investments and  Energy projects, Oil and Gas exploration and Exploitation licensing and Safety Regulations, citizenships and migration, Labor Law, Public Procurement Legislation, Intellectual property cases, and she has coordinated and supervised various EU projects from the Cyprus Law aspect.

Maria was elected as a Member of the Cyprus Parliament for almost 15 years and participated in the Parliamentary Committees of Financial and Budgetary Affairs, Commerce Industry, Tourism and Energy, Labour & Social Insurance, Communications and Works and more.

She has written many articles and lectured in Cyprus and abroad on the economy, companies, trademarks, patents, copyright, insolvencies, restructuring, trust etc.