Michael Vorkas & Associates LLC

The firm Michael Vorkas & Associates LLC provides a broad range of services and has developed the widespread activity in handling cases in almost all areas. The firm is committed to offering excellent services, which are based on personalizing the advice given to the clients and the speed in responding to their demands. To this effect, a lawyer is assigned to each and every case, so the client can rest assured they are getting the full benefit of the firm's wealth of knowledge and experience. The firm has concluded cooperation agreements with other law offices abroad in their respective areas of corporate and legal services, in cases of international character and high net worth clients. The team of trained lawyers and staff speaking Greek, English, Russian, Hungarian , French, Latvian and Lithuanian is also proud of the growing number of high profile clients who rely on them for the support of their business operations.

The firm's litigation department's extensive experience and widespread activity in almost all areas, allows us to carefully but efficiently handle a variety of cases with different character. We do, however, specialise on the following:

· Commercial and Corporate Law
· International Trusts Law
· Administrative Law
· Family Law
· Inheritance Law
· Intellectual Property Law
· International Dispute Resolution & International Arbitration
· Labour Law
· Maritime Law
· Tax Law

Although the firm specializes in all aspects of litigation the firm's corporate department has grown immensely the last decade. We advise both the selection of an appropriate type of company for every occasion and for fiscal and other advantages of each type of company, either in Cyprus or other off shore jurisdictions. The services we provide in addition to legal advice on litigation and general commercial and banking matters include among other things, the following:

· corporate administration and management,
· negotiations, documentation and closure of all types of financing transactions,
· acquisitions and corporate transformations,
· reorganizations and all kinds of international transactions and joint ventures
· due diligence procedures,
· protection of board members, shareholders and directors,
· transfer of shares,
· buy-sell agreements among shareholders,
· buy-sell agreements among investors
· sales and purchases of assets,
· negotiating and drafting contracts.

Michael Vorkas & Associates LLC can also offer its services to non-EU nationals who wish to acquire the Cyprus citizenship as per the Council of Ministers of Cyprus recent decision according to which foreign investors, by exemption, can acquire Cypriot citizenship based on par. 2(f) of the Civil Register Laws 2002-2011 if certain conditions are met. Serious investors who are keen to take advantage of the new developments will quickly recognize the potential of investment opportunities in Cyprus along with the immigration services provided by our firm so as to acquire the Cyprus Citizenship or Residence Permit.