Andrea Antoniadou

Experience

• Professional background: Andrea Antoniadou is the Managing Partner and Founder of AAV LAW FIRM, which is a Cypriot, corporate-focused practice with a strong emphasis on banking and finance matters, including loan restructurings and corporate advisory work. The firm highlights her role in providing legal opinions on corporate matters and supporting transactional work for corporations and financial institutions. Her experience is described as wide-ranging, spanning civil litigation and sophisticated corporate work, with a particular focus on banking-related matters and strategic corporate matters such as restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, and trust arrangements.
• Career history: Andrea completed her higher education in the United Kingdom (LLB and LLM) and subsequently developed a practice in Cyprus that encompasses advising on corporate transactions, loan restructurings, and related banking and finance work. Her professional credentials are tying her to Cyprus’ bar associations since 2016. 
• Notable roles: Andrea is identified as a certified mediator with the Cyprus Arbitration and Mediation Centre (CAMC), a role that positions her within Cyprus’ mediation and dispute resolution ecosystem. She is also listed as an official mediator with the Ministry of Justice. In addition, she is a long-standing member of the Cyprus Bar Association (since 2016) and the Nicosia Bar Association (since 2016), underscoring her formal integration into Cyprus’ legal community. These mediator credentials and bar memberships are presented as part of her professional profile, highlighting her capacity to navigate both litigation and alternative dispute resolution within banking and corporate contexts.
• Main areas of practice: Andrea's practice areas, include civil litigation, banking law and loan restructuring, trust law, M&A and joint ventures, corporate transactions and legal opinions. Andrea also advises start up companies and has also knowledge of IP matters. These areas reflect a blend of litigation, transactional, and advisory work that aligns with banking and corporate clients seeking sophisticated, cross-border or local Cyprus-focused legal support.

Specialty

• Practice areas: The firm’s profile places Andrea in core practice areas of Civil Litigation and Banking Law with an emphasis on Loan Restructuring. Additional focus areas include Trust Law, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and joint ventures, and Corporate Transactions & Legal Opinions, signaling a well-rounded portfolio in corporate finance, governance, and dispute resolution within Cyprus.
• Focus industries: Andrea's client base comprises of corporations and financial institutions. This indicates a specialization in the banking and financial services sectors, with accompanying corporate, commercial, and transactional work typical of law firms servicing lending, restructuring, capital markets, and enterprise formation needs within Cyprus’ economy.
• Types of cases handled: Her described workload encompasses providing legal opinions on corporate matters, advising on loan restructurings, assisting with company formation and the establishment of trusts, drafting commercial agreements for corporations and financial institutions, and advising on mergers and acquisitions. In addition, her civil litigation practice and mediation credentials suggest experience handling disputes related to banking transactions, corporate disputes, and commercial agreements, as well as potential advocacy in Cyprus courts or alternative dispute resolution settings.

Education

• LLB (Hons) Law Degree (First Class) – University of Manchester: Andrea earned an LLB with First Class honours, establishing her foundational training in law within the United Kingdom’s higher education system.
• LLM in Corporate and Commercial Law – London School of Economics (LSE): She completed a Master of Laws focusing on corporate and commercial topics, aligning with her later banking and corporate practice in Cyprus. Andrea has obtained the highest mark of the class in the subject of Corporate Governance.