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Savvas Theofanous is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Department of N. Pirilides & Associates LLC.

He undertakes a wide range of civil, commercial and corporate matters, and he regularly represents both local and international clients before the Cyprus Courts, mostly in complex cases with an international dimension and frequently as a member of a multi-jurisdictional legal team. 

His practice as a dispute resolution lawyer encompasses all aspects of civil and commercial litigation, arbitration, fraud, shareholders’ disputes, winding-up petitions, asset tracing and without notice interim relief, as well as the protection of minority shareholders and the registration and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards.

Savvas is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the ICC YAAF network, and an Accredited Mediator for civil, commercial and family disputes. He has received remarkable client testimonials in Legal 500 (EMEA) for his work, and he has authored and co-authored various publications in other leading legal directories.

His academic background reaffirms that he has a sound knowledge of legal principles and mechanisms applicable in both civil and common law jurisdictions. Savvas holds an LLM in International Commercial Law from the University of Bristol (UK), and an LLB from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece).

Alongside his role as a practitioner, Savvas is also a PhD scholar, and his doctoral research focuses on the consensual nature of arbitration, in conjunction with the increasing complex nature of commercial disputes and the involvement of third parties, and the role of national courts in the arbitral process.

Savvas was admitted to the Cyprus Bar Association in 2017, and since joining the Firm in 2018, he has demonstrated a strong capacity for dealing with legal issues of both contentious and non-contentious nature, and he has proven to be a strategic thinker with a successful performance.