Senior Associate Artemis Amalia Metaxa is a member of the Corporate and Commercial Department of the firm. She is a well-versed corporate lawyer advising on a wide spectrum of corporate and commercial law matters, with particular expertise in private acquisitions, joint ventures and related corporate restructuring transactions. She has successfully advised clients on some of the most complex and high-impact cross-border M&A transactions to have taken place in Cyprus, to include the acquisition of the companies operating the retail and food & beverage businesses at Larnaca and Paphos International Airports by the ARI group, the acquisition of various food delivery platforms by Delivery Hero, one of the largest international players in the online food delivery market and the acquisition of Cypriot pharmaceutical manufacturer Remedica by Ascendis Health, a South African multinational pharmaceutical company.

Amalia also has extensive experience acting for local and international financial institutions in high value secured financing transactions involving Cypriot corporate obligors.

Amalia served as a member of the Private Companies’ Committee of the Cyprus Bar Association between December 2014 and December 2017. In this capacity, she was involved in the public consultation process of the law which transposed the 4th EU AML Directive into Cypriot legislation. She has since authored the Cypriot chapter of a number of cross-European surveys on the implementation of EU AML Directives in Cyprus, and regularly advises clients on relevant matters.

Amalia is consistently ranked as a Rising Star lawyer for Commercial, Corporate and M&A and highly recommended for Banking and Finance by The Legal 500.

Bar Admissions
Cyprus Bar Association (2010)

Education
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Bachelor in Laws), University of Geneva (Certificate of Transnational Law), University College London (LL.M. in International Banking and Finance)

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