Foreign Investment Protection in Cyprus
The Jurisdiction Cyprus is a member of the European Union and the Eurozone. A common law jurisdiction, Cyprus provides an established, stable and solid legislative framework. Cypriot corporate law has...
International trade in goods and services in Cyprus
Antoniou McCollum & Co. has contributed two Q&A guides on Cyprus for the International Trade and Commercial Transactions Global Guide, published by Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law: Intern...
Out of the shadows: risks of shadow directors for Cyprus companies
“He lurks in the shadows, sheltering behind others who, he claims, are the only directors of the company to the exclusion of himself. He is not held out as a director by the company.” This was Mil...
ECB releases guidance on the licensing of fintech banks
The European Central Bank (ECB) has released a guide for the assessment of fintech credit institution licence applications. The guide is premised on the principles agreed by the ECB’s Supervisor...
ECJ rules that making a peer-to-peer sharing platform available online may infringe copyright
In a judgment delivered on 14 June 2017 in Case C-610/15, Stichting Brein v. Ziggo BV and XS4ALL Internet BV (ECLI:EU:C:2017:456) on a reference for a preliminary ruling by the Supreme Court of the Ne...