LATIN LEGAL MAXIMS AND PHRASES A. 1.       A fortiori – “With even stronger reason”, which applies to a situation in which if one thing is true then it can be deduced that a second thing is even more certainly Read More »

CONFERENCE “KIЕV ARBITRATION DAYS 2012: THINK BIG!” 15-16 NOVEMBER 2012 Our MD Soteris Pittas attended as a key speaker the Conference “KIЕV ARBITRATION DAYS 2012: Think Big!” held on 15-16 November 2012, in Kiev, Ukraine, under the auspices of Ukrainian Bar Read More »

Soteris Pittas & Co LLC and AstapovLawyers International Law Group held a joint seminar on “Peculiarities of disputes in Cyprus in post-M&A and shareholder disputes ". The event was held on 19 July in Kiev office of AstapovLawyers. AstapovLawyers and Soteris Pittas & Co LLC have Read More »

Please see attached a number of Visual photos of our New Premises.   Also please refer at the Home page of our website for a number of 3D photos of our premises. Read More »

    The Cyprus Parliament approved last December the increase of the VAT rate by 2%, i.e. from 15% to 17%, and this new 17% VAT rate will be implemented on 1 March 2012.   The VAT Service has clarified that the increase does not affect the products and services that fall under the Read More »

Please see attached a number of Visual photos of our New Premises.   Also please refer at the Home page of our website for a number of 3D photos of our premises. Read More »

Our Managing Director Mr. Soteris Pittas will be a conference speaker in the conference “Cross-Border Dispute Resolution: the Perspective for Russia and the CIS” in Moscow (12 September 2011), organized by the ABA Section of International Law. The event will be attended by approximately 250 Read More »

New Photos of the construction for our new premises. Please see attached a number of photos of the continuation of the Construction. Also please refer at the Home page of our website for a number of 3D photos of our premises. Read More »

We are proud to announce the beginning of the construction for our new premises. Please see attached a number of photos of the 1st Day of Construction. Also please refer at the Home page of our website for a number of 3D photos of our premises. Read More »

Lawyers and members of the personnel of our Law Firm participated as volunteers in the charity event fundraising fair “Joining Hands Creating Joy” held on the 29th of May 2011 in Limassol by the Foundation “The Centre for the Provision of Social Services Andreas Sofocleous Read More »

Contributed by Soteris Pittas of SOTERIS PITTAS & CO LLC September 23rd, 2010 A high profile Russian Businessman invested Euro 222 million for the acquisition of 7.5% of the issued share capital of one of the biggest Cypriot Banks namely BANK OF CYPRUS PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED Read More »

A new Double Taxation Agreement has been added to the wide network of double taxation treaties which Cyprus has with a large number of countries. On the 12th October 2010, the Republic of Cyprus signed a double Taxation Treaty with Slovenia. The Slovenian President Dr. Danilo Read More »

The Russian President Mr. Dmitry Medvedev visited today Cyprus for two days in order to discuss various political financial etc., issues, with the Cyprus President. Mr. Medvedev is escorted by more than 400 persons which includes ministers and other officials, as well as a large number of Read More »

A new Double Taxation Agreement has been added to the wide network of double taxation treaties which Cyprus has with a large number of countries. On the 5th October 2010, the Republic of Cyprus signed a double Taxation Treaty with Kuwait. The Cypriot Minister of Finance Mr. Stavrakis characterized as Read More »

In a Press Conference the Ministry of Finance in collaboration with the KPMG Limited presented, that business enterprises will face less Bureaucracy from this August (2010), the progress of this project for the reduction of administrative pressure in the legislation of Republic of Cyprus will complete Read More »

The European Commission has taken action against a total of 12 Member States, including Cyprus. The Commission will send reasoned opinion to Cyprus over non-implementation of the Directive 2007/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 July 2007 on the exercise of certain rights of Read More »

The Cyprus Inland Revenue Department issued on the 22nd January 2010, the Circular No. 2010/01 informing that the procedures have been completed which are required by the law of each country for the entry of the aforesaid Agreement into force, which was signed on the 11th of November 2008 and after the Read More »

The matters are: 1. Changes to the country of taxation of services provided from business to business. 2. Compliance obligations for persons who supply services and goods. 3. Changes in the time of supply of services for which VAT is due by the recipient. 4. Procedure for refund of VAT paid in Read More »