Kypros A. Louca

Kypros is a licensed insolvency practitioner registered in the Register of Insolvency Practitioners of the Department of Insolvency and a lawyer registered in the Cyprus Bar Association.

Kypros acts as a liquidator in voluntary and compulsory liquidations and receiver and manager on behalf of creditors and holders of floating charges. He also advises clients on business rescue strategies, restructurings, compromises and arrangements with shareholders and creditors. As an expert legal counsel in insolvency matters, he also represents and advises insolvency practitioners and issues legal opinions on complex insolvency matters that may occur in the course of any kind of insolvency proceedings. He is also a visiting lecturer for insolvency matters to academic and professional organisations and bodies.

Kypros has also a strong background in finance and corporate law. During his career has advised, top-repute international financial institutions and corporations and had a close collaboration with multinational law firms such as Dechert LLP, Herbert Smith Freehills, Dentons, Hogan Lovells, Allen & Overy, CMS Cameron McKenna, and DLA Piper. He is equipped with strong negotiation skills and has valuable experience in banking and shareholder disputes as well as in domestic and international commercial arbitration cases. He has been involved, amongst others, in cases involving shareholders’ disputes and the issuance of Norwich Pharmacal and Anton Piler interim injunctions on behalf of appointed Receivers and Managers and Liquidators.

He is registered as an insolvency practitioner in the Register of Insolvency Practitioners of the Department of Insolvency, a member of the Cyprus Bar Association, Kyrenia Bar Association and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

He holds a Law Degree from the Democritus University of Thrace, a postgraduate Master’s Degree in International Commercial and Business Law from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich and a postgraduate Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from the Queen Mary University of London. Kypros has also attended several professional courses, and holds professional certificates, amongst others, in Financial Technology: Cryptocurrency, Machine Learning and Digital Banking from the Imperial College Business School of London.

On June 2021 Kypros has been appointed by the President of the Republic and the Council of Ministers as a board member of the Cyprus Telecommunications Authority (CYTA). He is also the president of the Institute of Young Scientists of Cyprus (INE) and an active member of other volunteer and non-profit organisations.