Sabina Timotheou
Advocate
Head of Corporate
Highly experienced in corporate and commercial matters, Sabina is the Firm’s Head of Corporate.
Her extensive Corporate and Financial Services experience has allowed her to acquire excellent practical skills in Banking, AML Compliance, Regulatory matters and Restructuring methodology
Areas of Expertise
Cross-border
Mergers
Acquisitions
Joint Ventures
Re-domiciliation
Divestments
Shareholders’ Agreements
Shareholders’ and Boardroom Disputes
Setting-up of Investment Funds
Investment Services law
EU Law (including MIFID II, AML, DAC 6)
Recent Successes
Advising on AML, Legal Compliance, Restructuring transactions, Personal Data transfers, Ponzi/Pyramid schemes, CySEC and CSE Directives.
Advising on Financing and Banking Transactions with an emphasis on Structuring of Debt, and Corporate Procedure and Governance Issues.
Advising, drafting and reviewing of various corporate and commercial documents including Share Purchase Agreements, Assignments, Shareholders’ Agreements, Escrow Arrangements, Loan Agreements, Debt Swaps, Pledge and Securities Agreements.
Advising on re-domiciliation processes on holding companies moving to or from Cyprus.
Advising on the setting up and administration of Trusts.
Advising on proceedings before CySEC, which include the submission of oral and written representations for clients facing substantial administrative sanctions for regulatory and statutory violations.
Advising on the correct structuring, opening, and maintenance of current, client, and escrow bank accounts for complex groups and deals.
Experience & Education
Sabina holds a Law degree from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in France, and a Master’s in Business Law and Corporate Governance from the same university.
A skilled advocate, she revels in the creativity of conceiving, bringing to life, and implementing novel and effective structures, agreements and strategies for clients.
She is fluent in Greek, English and French.
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