Michaela has extensive experience in corporate matters, reorganizations as well as banking and finance transactions.

Her practice focuses particularly on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and complex reorganizations. She regularly advises major corporate groups on intricate shareholders’ agreements, trust deeds, and matters related to shareholder disputes, directors’ duties, and corporate governance.

Michaela’s sector expertise is broad and she advises major local clients in the shipping, insurance and banking sectors on a regular basis.

Michaela has significant experience representing international credit institutions and large conglomerates in high-value international financing transactions involving Cyprus companies. She assists clients with multimillion-euro debt restructurings, including loan and security restructurings, company restructurings, and settlement plans with creditors approved by relevant authorities.

Additionally, Michaela has expertise in derivative transactions and provides regular advice to international banks on ISDA documentation.

Recent illustrative experience includes:

• Advising on a merger that resulted in the creation of one of the world’s largest ship management companies.
• Advising on a debt restructuring valued at over one billion euros for a leading group in its sector in Europe.
• Advising the successful bidder for the container terminal operation at Limassol Port during its commercialization process.
• Advising a Cyprus bank in relation to the sale of its business.
• Advising on a merger, creating a world class ship management service provider. Advising an international airline in connection with the acquisition and financing of its aircrafts.
• Advising a major international insurance company on the transfer of its insurance portfolio from a branch to a Cyprus-registered and regulated insurance company.

Advising a global technology company in connection with their acquisition of a global leader in programmatic and real-time advertising Advising a potential bidder on the acquisition of a portfolio of non-performing exposures from a major Cyprus bank.

LLM in Corporate and Commercial Law, London School of Economics and Political Science

2004

Bristol University, LLB

2003

Partner

Since 2015

Associate,

2006-2015

Cyprus Bar admission

2006

Legal and commercial analyst at Expo Communications, UK

2004-2005