Georgia Demou

Practice Areas

Georgia is leading lawyer in Cyprus in the private client, immigration and real estate sectors.

She has been also recognised by reputable legal directories (such as the Legal500) as a leading figure in the Cyprus real estate arena.

She has in-depth knowledge and experience in a spectrum of commercial law transactions and extend to private client matters as well as real estate and migration issues, while her well-developed expertise has allowed her to offer clients tailored advice and solutions.

Georgia studied law at the University of Sussex in England, and continued her academic development having been granted a full scholarship in International Commercial Law at the European University of Cyprus.

Georgia has been called to the Cyprus Bar.

Her main areas of practice are:

Private Client

Immigration

Real Estate

Corporate and M&A

As regards private client, some usual tasks Georgia is involved with comprise:

These include amongst others, advice on:

Administration of trusts

Administrative appeals against decisions of public authorities

Banking

Consumer law issues

Employment

Estate planning

Immigration

Inheritance tax

Personal injury matters

Real estate

Tax Planning

Wills and probate

Work Highlights

Recent work in private client sectors

As regards the private client (and real estate sectors), Georgia acted for and advised on the set up of several 5* hotels in Cyprus but also on the construction, development and acquisition of some of the largest ever real estate projects in Cyprus.

Moreover, Georgia was part of the team who advised a plethora of HNW and UHNWI on estate planning, tax, immigration and other related issues.

Georgia was also part of the team who advised on the high profile divorce of two UHNWIs, before London Courts, whereby the award issued is considered as one of the largest ever in history, exceeding €500m.

He has also been involved in the team advising the heirs of an UHNW in probate proceedings, exceeding $4b billion.

In 2022, she was instructed by an UHNWI listed in Forbes to set up a trust which shall comprise billions of assets in several jurisdictions.

Recently, Georgia (advising on selected private client matters) was part of the local team acting as Cypriot counsel in relation to global litigation proceedings between Russian oligarchs (the value of dispute exceeded $2b) before the Supreme Court of NY. The case was at the time one of the most high-profile cases pending in the global litigation sphere and has been described as ‘the biggest oligarch battle in the US’.

Awards

Clients

OUYA Properties

Mariott Group

Maximos Group

BCS

DTA

Shares.io

Columbia Group

Rezidor Group

RONIN Europe

AWS (Amazon)

EUREKA Group

RPT Group

CapitalX

Education