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Loans & Secured Financing 2023
AMC’s Anastasios Antoniou and Irena Zannetti are the authors of the Cyprus chapter in GTDT Loans and Secured Financing 2023. The guide covers ba...
New EU rules for distribution agreements
The European Commission adopted the new Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER), accompanied by new Vertical Guidelines. What are vertical agreemen...
Antoniou McCollum & Co. tops The Legal 500 2022 rankings
Antoniou McCollum & Co. is delighted to announce it is ranked again as a top tier law firm by The Legal 500. What The Legal 500 say In ranking our...
EU Sanctions against Russia in response to the military aggression against Ukraine
Antoniou McCollum & Co. is renowned for its European Union law practice and is ranked as top tier in EU law by The Legal 500. Contact our EU l...
Doing Business in Cyprus
Antoniou McCollum & Co. has authored the Doing Business in Cyprus guide for Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law. The guide gives an overview of k...
New Cyprus competition law
Cyprus has enacted a new competition framework, which introduces additional powers for the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition (the CP...
Whistleblowing in Cyprus
New Cyprus whistleblowing legislation regulates the disclosure or reporting of breaches of EU and Cyprus law in the public and private sectors. The ...
AVMS Directive fully transposed in Cyprus
AVMS transposition The Audiovisual Media Services Directive (EU) 2018/1808 amending the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2010/13/EU on the coordin...
New rules on the supply of digital content and digital services in Cyprus
New legislation in Cyprus sets out rules concerning contracts for the supply of digital content or digital services. These rules include requirement...
Law in the metaverse
Code is one of few forces to have challenged the dominance of law in regulating human behaviour. The confrontation between code and law will transcend...
Cross-border mergers involving Cyprus companies in the EEA
Cyprus companies are regularly used as absorbing or merging entities in cross-border mergers across the European Economic Area, namely the EU Member S...
Cyprus mini managers of alternative investment funds
Cyprus Mini Managers A sub-threshold AIFM (Mini Manager) can manage the following: Cyprus alternative investment funds (AIFs) with limited or unlimite...
Asset Planning and Protection through the Cyprus Trust
Cyprus International Trusts (the Cyprus Trust) can hold assets anywhere in the world in a tax-efficient, secure and confidential structure. A Cyprus T...
Thought leadership on Lexology
AMC members regularly contribute to Lexology on the latest developments in EU and Cypriot law. We highlight below our key Lexology contributions over ...
Cyprus alternative investment funds and mini-managers
Aiming to become an ideal jurisdiction for the establishment of alternative investment funds in the European Union, Cyprus has developed a versatile, ...
AMC ranked top tier by The Legal 500
We are delighted to have been ranked as a top tier firm by The Legal 500. On our EU & Competition Law practice, The Legal 500 had the following to...
Online purchases of digital content and mobile apps under Cyprus law
Cyprus law provides for certain localisation and disclosure requirements with respect to online purchases of digital services and content. These digit...
Dividend distribution by private and public companies in Cyprus
Dividend distributions by a Cyprus company can be either interim or final. Interim and final dividends are treated differently under Cyprus law. Inter...
Trade secrets legislation enacted in Cyprus
With much delay, Cyprus has transposed Directive (EU) 2016/943 — protection of undisclosed know-how and business information (trade secrets) against...
Cyprus implements beneficial owners register for companies and trusts
Cyprus has activated the beneficial owners register for Cypriot companies and other legal persons registered in Cyprus. In doing so, Cyprus is fully t...
Lead Data Authority under the GDPR – the Cyprus angle
The lead authority under the GDPR The concept of a lead supervisory data protection authority (the “Lead Authority”) facilitates monitoring cross-...
CJEU judgment on tax information requests between EU Member States
In its judgment in Joined Cases C-245/19 and C-246/19 the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”), held that, in the context of the exchan...
Cyprus cybersecurity framework – new legislation on network and information security
Cyprus has now fully transposed Directive 2016/1148 on security of network and information systems (the “NIS Directive”), through the Security of ...
Cyprus trademarks law overhaul
Cyprus enacted legislation amending the Trademarks Law, Cap 268 (as amended, the “Trademarks Law”). This amendment has brought about notable cha...
Technology IP – the Cyprus tax incentives
Cyprus entitles profit from qualifying IP assets to benefit from an 80% tax deduction, resulting in an effective tax rate of 2.5% or less. The regime,...
Antoniou McCollum & Co. ranked as top tier law firm by The Legal 500
In its 2020 edition, The Legal 500 have ranked Antoniou McCollum & Co. as top tier firm. The top tier ranking is the highest a law practice can ...
Cyprus crowdfunding rules under way
At an EU level, political agreement was recently achieved between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council on the proposal for...
Corporate insolvency in Cyprus
The Cypriot corporate insolvency framework has undergone an overhaul over the past years. The insolvency procedures summarised below are generally ava...
No-deal Brexit alert for Cyprus businesses
Download our alert: The ‘no-deal’ scenario On 29 March 2017, the United Kingdom notified the European Council of its intention to withdraw ...
Transfers of personal data from Cyprus to third countries
EU data protection rules apply to the European Economic Area (EEA), which includes all EU countries as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. All ...