Areas of Practice

For International Law Firms

Law firms and in-house teams abroad regularly need action on the ground in Cyprus: a document served, a judgment enforced, a company searched, a filing made.

Cyprus 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

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, advocate and partner at Kleanthous & Platis LLC

Andreas Kleanthous

Partner

Litigation, personal injury and insurance claims, debt recovery, administrative law, real estate, wills and probate.

Klitos Platis, advocate and partner at Kleanthous & Platis LLC

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 & Debt Recovery and Private Client.

Before instructing, send us a short summary of the Cyprus element of your matter and any deadline that applies to it.

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Tell us what you need covered in Cyprus

The matter, the deadline, and whether you need local counsel, an opinion, service, or an agent for process. We work to your file conventions and report in the format you use. We reply within one business day.

Kleanthous & Platis LLC, Nicosia. Write to office@kleanthousplatis.com or klitos@kleanthousplatis.com, or telephone +357 22 680 330.

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Please do not send confidential documents until we have run a conflict check and confirmed we can act.