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New Cyprus competition leniency programme
Cyprus has a new leniency programme in place, implemented and supervised by the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition (the CPC). Under t...
Practical Law Cyprus Merger Control chapter
We are delighted to have contributed the Cyprus Merger Control chapter for Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law Global Competition Guide. The Cyprus M...
Lexology Digital Business Cyprus 2023
We are delighted to have contributed the Cyprus chapter in Lexology’s Digital Business 2023. The guide provides insights into legal and regulato...
Financial Times Innovative Lawyers includes Cyprus law firm AMC amongst most innovative in Europe
In their Innovative Lawyers Europe special report, the Financial Times have included Antoniou McCollum & Co. (AMC) amongst the most innovative law...
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...
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,...
AMC shortlisted in the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers awards
Antoniou McCollum & Co. (AMC) is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted for the upcoming Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Europe awa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
Are big data and algorithms next on the European Commission’s competition agenda?
Margrethe Vestager has made it clear that the European Commission is looking into potential competition issues arising from big data. Whether tech...
Passporting in the EU for banking, financial services and insurance undertakings
Passporting enables businesses such as AIFMs, Banks, Insurers, Investment firms, Payment institutions to provide their services across the EU. Our lat...