Demetris Roti
Global Guide 2024
Up and Coming : General Business Law
Up and Coming
About
Provided by Demetris Roti
Practice Areas
• Banking and Finance
• Corporate and Commercial
Career
Graduated in law from the University of Manchester, UK, 2005
BPP Professional Education, Legal Practice Course, 2006
AimHigher, Department for Education and Skills, UK, 2006
Gained significant experience working in a top 20 City law firm in London
Admitted to the Cyprus Bar in 2010
Senior Associate since 2014
Advocate Partner since 2017
Publications
1) Cyprus Challenges replacing Libor
2) Initial Public Offerings 2020 Cyprus
Languages Spoken
English, Greek
Experience
- Financing of the largest natural gas field in Azerbaijan
- Financing of a large Polish telecoms provider to reserve frequencies for the provision of telecommunication services including 4G
- Senior revolving credit facility to an international energy trader for an oil storage depot, the biggest foreign investment at the time in Cyprus
- Matisse financing of the first international bond issue secured by Romanian commercial real estate
- USD 350 million debut Eurobond issue of a Russian property company traded on the main market of the Irish Stock Exchange, the first Eurobond issue by a Cyprus company active in the Russian real estate market
- Bond offering of a UK-listed satellite communications provider
- Hostile mandatory public takeover offer for a company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
- Advised a consortium including Trafigura in relation to the USD 12.9 billion purchase of India’s Essar Oil Ltd which was India’s largest ever foreign direct investment transaction;
- Advised a consortium including Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, China Limited and ING Bank N.V., in relation to a $1 billion project financing Lukoil Overseas Shah Deniz Ltd in relation to stage 2 of the of the Shah Deniz gas development project in Azerbaijan;
- Assisted BW Offshore (which is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange) refinance the USD 2.4 billion facility into a five-year senior secured USD 672.5 million revolving credit facility
- Advised a group of entities which includes an entity listed on the LSE regarding the group’s several re-financings amounting to US $557 million
- Advised General Electric regarding the USD150 million debt financing package provided to LongWing Energy S.C.A. regarding the first phase of the Zaporizhia Wind Farm.
Industry Sector Expertise
Demetris Roti has extensive experience in corporate and commercial law, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and banking and finance. He has acted in numerous substantial transactions whilst working in a top 25 City of London firm and for this firm on behalf of international law firms and institutional financiers, credit agencies and international commercial and development banks including China Development Bank, Citi, Deutsche Bank, EBRD and HSBC. Legal 500 notes Demetris Roti in banking and finance and corporate.
Chambers Review
Global
Demetris Roti enters the rankings thanks to his up-and-coming practice assisting international clients on a breadth of commercial and transactional matters, as well as financing mandates.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Demetris Roti is always very responsive and has in-depth, wide knowledge of Cypriot corporate and commercial law. He is our go-to person on complex corporate and financing transactions."
"He always responds to issues that need to be addressed in a very professional manner and advises his clients correctly on issues that need an opinion."
"Demetris Roti is always very responsive and has in-depth, wide knowledge of Cypriot corporate and commercial law. He is our go-to person on complex corporate and financing transactions."
"He always responds to issues that need to be addressed in a very professional manner and advises his clients correctly on issues that need an opinion."
