Member of our firm licensed to act as Insolvency Consultant
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Member of our firm licensed to act as Insolvency Consultant

We are pleased to announce that our Managing Partner, Dr. Pavlos Neofytou Kourtellos has been licensed to act as Insolvency Consultant by the Cyprus Bar Association pursuant to the recently introduced legislation. The new Insolvency Framework comprises of a package of six legislative texts which entered into force on the 07/05/2015. In particular the new…

New Insolvency framework
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New Insolvency framework

On 18 April 2015, the Parliament voted in favour of the five bills that constitute the new Insolvency framework. The Insolvency framework comes is in addition to other legislative initiatives and reforms in the process of the implementation of the Cyprus economic adjustment programme agreed in 2013 with Troika. The passing of the insolvency framework…

FinCEN severs access to U.S. Financial System for FBME Bank Ltd
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FinCEN severs access to U.S. Financial System for FBME Bank Ltd

FBME, one of Tanzania’s largest commercial banks, has been cut off from accessing the US financial system on suspicions that the bank has facilitated money laundering, terrorist financing, and organized crime. The action finalizes a 2014 ruling from the US Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) naming FBME “a foreign financial institution of primary…