Personal bio
Marina Hadjisoteriou is a Partner and she heads the Limassol dispute resolution department of Michael Kyprianou & Co LLC, one of the largest law firms in Cyprus. Her main areas of practice are asset recovery, cross-border commercial litigation, international arbitration and cross-border insolvency. Marina has consistently been ranked by The Legal 500 EMEA as a ‘leading individual’ and has also been recommended by Chambers and Partners for dispute resolution in Cyprus. She has also been ranked as an asset recovery, commercial litigation, arbitration and insolvency leader in Cyprus by Who’s Who Legal (WWL). The directories describe Marina as ‘one of the best dispute resolution practitioners in Cyprus’. ‘She is fully engaged in the matter and very efficiently manages the most complex cases‘. Marina ‘has an eye for business and is adept at spotting the issues quickly and understanding the commercial realities for her clients. She is a strategist, with excellent legal abilities, a team player, very responsive and a pleasure to work with.’ She has also been praised for being ‘an excellent communicator and always on stand-by mode‘ and ‘proactive and knowledgeable‘. She ‘handles complex disputes across multiple jurisdictions well‘, ‘crafts a legal case like a spider crafts his web‘ and ‘comprehends complex matters quickly and explains things well to clients’. She has significant experience of multi-jurisdictional high value, complex fraud and asset tracing cases involving world-wide freezing injunctions and ‘Chabra’ orders, antisuit injunctions, orders for the appointment of receivers and disclosure (‘Norwich Pharmacal’) orders. She has successfully represented parties in disputes arising out of breaches of shareholder agreements and breach of fiduciary duties. She has also successfully filed and defended liquidation applications by creditors or by minority shareholders alleging oppression. She is also vastly experienced in obtaining orders for the recognition of for