For your Cyprus work
Local counsel. A defined brief. Your client relationship.
Need a Cyprus opinion, local proceedings, service or searches? Tell us the part you need covered. We agree the deliverable, reporting arrangements, fee and timing before work begins.
Discuss a Cyprus instructionYour first message costs nothing: within one working day we tell you whether we can help and what it would cost. Scope and fees are agreed before work starts.
Define the instruction
One question, a document review or the Cyprus part of a wider matter.
Agree how we report
We work to your file conventions and the reporting arrangements agreed with you.
Keep the relationship
Your client remains yours. We take instructions through you unless a different arrangement is agreed.
Need a written opinion?
See how we scope a Cyprus-law opinion, including its questions, intended recipient and use.
Cyprus legal opinionsCyprus correspondent counsel
Kleanthous & Platis LLC acts as Cyprus correspondent counsel for foreign law firms, handling the Cyprus element of your matter quickly and on clear fixed fees. Your client remains yours; we act on your instructions and report to you.
Instructing us
Your first message costs nothing. We respond within one business day and quote a fixed fee before we begin.
The work
What we handle
Service of judicial and extrajudicial documents in Cyprus, with formal proof of service. Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in Cyprus, and enforcement of Cypriot judgments abroad through our correspondent network. Company searches at the Registrar of Companies, Land Registry searches, and litigation searches. Filings with the Registrar of Companies and the Department of Lands and Surveys.
Cyprus law opinions on capacity, due execution and enforceability, addressed to the parties who need to rely on them. Appearances before the Cypriot courts as local counsel, including urgent interim applications. Coordination of notarisation, apostille and consular legalisation of documents. Debt recovery against debtors located in Cyprus, from letter before action through judgment and enforcement. Process agent appointments under cross-border transaction documents.
The relationship
How we work with referring firms
We respond within one business day, quote a fixed fee before we begin, and send progress reports you can forward to your client without editing. Where a matter requires expertise we do not have, we say so at the outset and, where possible, introduce the right specialist.
Who leads this work
Between them the partners bring more than 40 years of practice in Cyprus. Every matter is run by one of them.
Andreas Kleanthous
Partner
Litigation, personal injury and insurance claims, debt recovery, administrative law, real estate, wills and probate.
Klitos Platis
Partner
Litigation, corporate and commercial matters, property and construction, including pleadings, interim applications and trial preparation.
Written on this subject
Standing appointments we take for foreign firms and their clients, at published fixed fees: process agent, EU representative under Article 27, and the presence pack that holds both with a Nicosia address.
All our writing is on the writing index. Related: Litigation & Arbitration and Trusts, Wills & Succession.
Before instructing, send us a short summary of the Cyprus element of your matter and any deadline that applies to it.