Elias Neocleous

• Corporate and Commercial

• Tax Law – Tax Planning & Advanced Business Structuring

Elias has long and deep experience in providing international businesses and organisations with advice at the highest level on matters including mergers and acquisitions, cross-border investment, business structuring, corporate governance and tax and international tax planning. He is widely recognised as a leading adviser to private clients on wealth management issues including family and charity trusts, family foundations, tax law, domicile, and asset management.

Elias is frequently invited to speak on Cyprus law at international events and has numerous publications on Cyprus corporate and tax law to his credit. He has been selected by leading legal publishers to write the Cyprus chapter of reference works including Guide to European Company Laws, Doing Business in Europe, and European Cross- Border Estate Planning (Sweet & Maxwell), Joint Ventures in Europe, International Tax and Investment Service, and Planning and Administration of Offshore and Onshore Trusts (Tottel Publishing).

Vice President/Economy of the Limassol Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Founder member of the Franchise Association of Greece

Member of the International Bar Association

Member of the International Tax Planning Association

Honorary member of the Association of Fellows of Legal Scholars of the Center for International Legal Studies

Member of the Association Européenne D’Études Juridiques et Fiscales

Academician of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law

Founder Member of STEP Cyprus

Served as Honorary Consul of Portugal from December 2012 to August 2024

Private client law in Cyprus: overview

International Trust Precedents

COUNTRY UPDATE-Cyprus: Securities & Banking

TAXATION IN M&A

Doing business in: Cyprus

Restructuring and insolvency in Cyprus: overview

• Advised a consortium, including Trafigura, on the $12.9 billion acquisition of India’s Essar Oil Ltd, India’s largest-ever foreign direct investment transaction.

• Advised Allwyn Entertainment Financing (UK) plc on a €1.3 billion high-yield issuance.

• Assisted Premier Energy PLC, a leading renewable energy company, with its €482 million IPO, part of which was acquired by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Graduated in law from the University of Oxford in 1991