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Provided by Lia Iordanou Theodoulou
Corporate Finance; Banking Law; Ship and Aircraft Finance; M&A; Restructuring & Ιnsolvency; Foreign Investment; Commercial Law; Real Estate, Trusts and Asset Protection
Lia Iordanou Theodoulou is a Partner at AGPLAW, specializing in corporate finance, M&A, and commercial law in general. With over 30 years of experience, she has built a strong reputation for advising multinational corporations, financial institutions, and high-net-worth individuals on structuring and executing sophisticated transactions and offering clients strategic solutions, tailored to their personal and business needs.
Lia has extensive experience in all types of financing transactions, including ship and aircraft finance, as well as financial law, mergers and acquisitions, and commercial law in general, including real estate, trusts and asset protection. Additionally, she is well-versed in EU sanctions compliance, ensuring that businesses operate within the strict regulatory framework imposed in the recent years. She is recommended by international legal directories as a leading practitioner in Cyprus for banking and finance and corporate and commercial. Focusing on cross-border transactions, she advises major international banks, financial institutions, borrowers and multinational organizations, on finance matters, corporate restructurings, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and generally on all aspects of major and complex transactions.
Lia is a member of several professional bodies, including IBA, STEP and the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn and she is also member of the Board of the Cyprus Fiduciary Association. She is the author of several articles on financial, corporate and commercial law matters, real estate and trusts and regularly participates at seminars and conferences in Cyprus and abroad.
Honourable Society of Gray's Inn; IBA; English Bar Association; Cyprus Bar Association; STEP; Corporate and Securities Law Group; Vice President CBA Committee on Environment and Energy; Member CBA Committee on Shipping and Aviation
Lia has authored numerous articles, guides and chapters, in international guides and publications.
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Lia Iordanou Theodoulou is experienced in advising on a variety of financial matters such as refinancing and credit transactions. She is equally well versed in handling corporate restructurings, regulatory advice and cross-border matters. She joined AGPLAW in March 2025.
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She is extremely client-oriented and open to handling difficult and sophisticated matters.
Lia Iordanou Theodoulou is an excellent lawyer who responds quickly and is always up to date with all legal developments.
She is extremely client-oriented and open to handling difficult and sophisticated matters.
Lia Iordanou Theodoulou is an excellent lawyer who responds quickly and is always up to date with all legal developments.
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When advising on sanctions, the lawyer providing the relevant advice should be extra careful to cover all angles of the specific transaction.
People, entities and organisations in the aviation industry, must pay particular attention to the restrictive measures introduced by the EU in respect of the actions undermining the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and assess to what extent they are affected by the sanctions.
LIA Iordanou Theodoulou, Angeliki Epaminonda, Elena Georgiou, and Stylianos Trillides provide a high level overview to #lending and taking security in Cyprus.
A TOP TIER law firm by The Legal 500! Again!
The Legal 500, EMEA 2021 edition once again recommends our law firm as a TOP TIER firm in Dispute Resolution and Tax and ranks our Banking & Finance, Commercial, Corporate and M&A, and Real Estate and Construction practice areas amongst the best in the Cyprus legal market.
Lending & Taking Security in Cyprus: overview
A Q&A guide to lending and taking security in Cyprus. The Q&A gives a high level overview of the lending market, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, guarantees, and loan agreements. It covers creation and registration requirements for security
Our lawyers have been appointed in Committees of the Cyprus Bar Association
With professional skills to provide top quality legal services and a range of backgrounds and interests, eight lawyers of our team have been selected among many candidates and appointed in various committees of the Cyprus Bar Association and the Limassol Bar Association.
Highly regarded lawyers in Financial & Corporate
We are excited and honoured to be ranked among the top law firms in Cyprus in the field of Financial and Corporate by IFLR 1000, the only international legal directory dedicated to ranking law firms and lawyers on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work.
Leading legal experts in Europe, Middle East & Africa
Hall of Fame - Dispute Resolution, Leading Individuals in Tax, Corporate, Banking and Real Estate
When advising on sanctions, the lawyer providing the relevant advice should be extra careful to cover all angles of the specific transaction.
People, entities and organisations in the aviation industry, must pay particular attention to the restrictive measures introduced by the EU in respect of the actions undermining the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and assess to what extent they are affected by the sanctions.
LIA Iordanou Theodoulou, Angeliki Epaminonda, Elena Georgiou, and Stylianos Trillides provide a high level overview to #lending and taking security in Cyprus.
A TOP TIER law firm by The Legal 500! Again!
The Legal 500, EMEA 2021 edition once again recommends our law firm as a TOP TIER firm in Dispute Resolution and Tax and ranks our Banking & Finance, Commercial, Corporate and M&A, and Real Estate and Construction practice areas amongst the best in the Cyprus legal market.
Lending & Taking Security in Cyprus: overview
A Q&A guide to lending and taking security in Cyprus. The Q&A gives a high level overview of the lending market, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, guarantees, and loan agreements. It covers creation and registration requirements for security
Our lawyers have been appointed in Committees of the Cyprus Bar Association
With professional skills to provide top quality legal services and a range of backgrounds and interests, eight lawyers of our team have been selected among many candidates and appointed in various committees of the Cyprus Bar Association and the Limassol Bar Association.
Highly regarded lawyers in Financial & Corporate
We are excited and honoured to be ranked among the top law firms in Cyprus in the field of Financial and Corporate by IFLR 1000, the only international legal directory dedicated to ranking law firms and lawyers on the basis of financial and corporate transactional work.
Leading legal experts in Europe, Middle East & Africa
Hall of Fame - Dispute Resolution, Leading Individuals in Tax, Corporate, Banking and Real Estate
