Anastasios A. Antoniou
Partner, Managing Advocate
Anastasios Antoniou LLCGrigori Afxentiou 3
Office 102, Gnaftis Court
Limassol 4003
Cyprus
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Anastasios A. Antoniou - Managing Advocate, Limassol, CyprusLawyer's Profile
Anastasios A. Antoniou is a Cyprus Lawyer practising competition law and energy law. An Advocate of the Supreme Court of Cyprus, Anastasios acts as Cyprus Counsel for a plethora of multinational corporations and global law firms on competition law, oil and gas law, merger control and international law matters. He also appears before all Courts of Cyprus representing clients in high-profile cases involving corporate, energy, constitutional and human rights litigation.He is a Full Member of the Cyprus Bar Association and the International Bar Association (IBA) and sits at the IBA's Antitrust Committee. He is honoured with inclusion in the European Competition Law Forum, while he is also a member of the American Society of International Law, the British Institute of Comparative and International Law and the International Trademark Association (INTA).
Following completion of his graduate and postgraduate legal studies in the UK, focusing on competition law, and after successfully defending his postgraduate research in international law, also in the UK, Anastasios held in-house counsel positions before being called to the Bar in Cyprus. As an Associate at a leading Law Firm he was a litigator in a number of high-profile corporate law cases and regularly advised Clients on energy law issues.
He is today the Managing Advocate at Anastasios Antoniou LLC (www.antoniou.com.cy) a Cyprus Law Firm advising and litigating in competition law, oil and gas and energy law, financial services and investment funds law, intellectual property and international law matters.
The Legal 500 have highlighted Anastasios' 'expertise' as being the reason behind Anastasios Antoniou LLC's 'solid reputation', while Anastasios has achieved the highest ranking of 'Preeminent' in Martindale Hubbell's Lawyer Ratings.
Anastasios is a frequent author of articles in international and European legal journals and the national press of Cyprus.
Specialties
competition law, oil and gas law, energy law, public and private international law, merger control
Bar Admission
Cyprus Bar Association, International Bar Association, Limassol Bar AssociationAffiliations
European Competition Lawyers Forum, EUROJURIS, American Society of International Law, British Institute of International and Comparative LawLanguages Greek, English, Spanish
Joined the Law Firm in 2009
Lawyer's Areas of Practice
- Admiralty & Maritime
- Agency & Distributorship
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Antitrust & Trade Regulation
- Appellate Practice
- Arbitration
- Aviation Law
- Banking & Finance
- Boating Accident
- Business & Industry
- Business Formation
- Business Law
- Business Litigation
- Capital Markets
- Civil Litigation
- Civil Rights
- Class Actions
- Commercial Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Commercial Ship Accident
- Competition Law
- Constitutional Law
- Construction Law
- Contracts
- Copyright
- Corporate Finance
- Corporate Law
- Corporate Litigation
- Corporate Taxation
- Cruise Ship Accidents
- Customs Law
- Data Protection
- Debt Relief
- Debtor & Creditor
- Defamation, Libel & Slander
- Defective Products
- Domain Names
- E-Commerce
- Energy
- Environmental & Natural Resources
- Environmental Law
- European Community Law
- Finance
- Financial Litigation
- Financial Services Law
- Franchising
- Human Rights
- Insolvency
- Intellectual Property
- International Arbitration
- International Investments
- International Law
- International Trade
- Internet Law
- Investment Law
- Joint Ventures
- Licensing Law
- Litigation
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Natural Resources
- Negligence
- Offshore Services
- Oil & Gas
- Patents
- Private Equity
- Privatization Law
- Real Estate
- Securities
- Shareholders Rights
- Ship Registration
- Tax
- Tax Planning
- Telecommunications Law
- Trade
- Trade Secrets
- Trademark
- Unfair Competition
- Venture Capital
Additional Practice Areas: Private Investment Funds, Merger Control
Litigation Percentage 50%
Career
Publications
• Cyprus Chapter, Global Competition Review (2013)•Cyprus Chapter, Cartel Regulation 2011 and 2012, Getting the Deal Through
•The Essential Facilities Doctrine before European Community Courts: Ostracized or Expanded? (2010) Cyprus and European Law Review
•Cyprus Chapter, Merger Control 2011, 2012, 2013, Getting the Deal Through
•Facilities Essential to Compete, May 2010, Legal and more
•Cyprus Chapter, International Comparative Legal Guide to Litigation & Dispute Resolution 2010, Global Legal Group
•Competition Law, 03/2010, Route to Cyprus, Corporate INTL
•The Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition finds the four oil companies as having violated competition rules and imposes millions in fines (Retail fuel market of Cyprus), January 2010-I, e-Competitions, n°30035
•Increasing Rights Protection in the EU: the Charter of Fundamental Rights in Trajectory of Enforcement (2009) 4 Hellenic Review of European Law 97
•Cyprus International Trusts : The need to preserve and enhance the importance of Cyprus as a financial center (2009) 2 Legal & More 16. (16-17) (18)
•Co-Author, 'Hanok of Cyprus Laws' (2008), Nomiki Vivliothiki
Seminars
International Investment Arbitration (UNITAR)Past Employment Positions
Advocate, Andreas Neocleous & Co LLCGeneral Counsel, Dioratico Ltd
Education
Kingston UniversityLondon School of Economics
