Personal bio

Marina Hadjisoteriou is a Partner and the Head of International Disputes at Patrikios Legal, a top-tier law firm in Limassol, Cyprus.

Her core areas of practice include asset recovery, cross-border commercial litigation, civil litigation, international arbitration, and insolvency.

She has significant experience in handling high-value, complex fraud and asset tracing cases, often involving worldwide freezing orders, disclosure orders, and gagging orders. She is also well-versed in shareholder disputes, breaches of fiduciary duty and obtaining recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in Cyprus.

Marina frequently acts for local and foreign liquidators, provisional liquidators, receivers, and bankruptcy trustees, and has successfully filed and defended liquidation and oppression proceedings.

In addition, Marina has extensive experience in professional negligence matters, including medical negligence litigation. She has represented both patients and doctors in a wide range of claims and is frequently appointed by insurance companies to safeguard the interests of medical professionals — reflecting the trust placed in her balanced and pragmatic approach to such sensitive cases.

She has authored various publications and is often invited to speak at international conferences.

She is a member of the Cyprus Bar Association (CBA), an officer (Levant Regional Representative) of the Asset Recovery Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), a member of the Steering Committee of IWIRC Europe (International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation), a member of the board of directors of IWIRC Cyprus, a member of the board of directors of the Cyprus Arbitration Forum (CAF), and of the organising committee of CAD.

She is consistently recognised by leading legal directories. Marina is ranked by The Legal 500 EMEA as a Leading Partner and is also ranked by Chambers and Partners. She is recognised as a leader in asset recovery, commercial litigation, arbitration, and insolvency in Cyprus by Lexology (formerly Who’s Who Legal).

Peers and clients alike describe her as “one of the best dispute resolution practitioners in Cyprus”, someone who “crafts a legal case like a spider crafts his web”, “handles complex disputes across multiple jurisdictions well”, and “has an eye for business and is adept at spotting the issues quickly and understanding the commercial realities for her clients”. She is noted to be “very well-known far beyond Cyprus” and “a real asset for the firm.”

Qualifications:
BSc Accounting & Economics – First Class Honours (University of Southampton, Southampton, UK) 2007
Graduate Diploma in Law (University of Law, London, UK) 2008
Bar Vocational Course (BVC) (University of Law, London, UK) 2009
Barrister-at-Law (Middle Temple Inn, London, UK) 2009
Admitted to the Cyprus Bar, 2010
Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) 2020