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Christoforos Soteriou

Senior Associate | Avocat

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Christoforos Soteriou

Senior Associate | Avocat

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CMS DeBacker Luxembourg
Rue Charles Darwin 5
L-1433 Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Languages English, French, Greek

Christoforos is a Senior Associate in CMS Luxembourg Investment Funds practice.

He is qualified to practise law in Cyprus and is also a Luxembourg-registered List IV lawyer (avocat exerçant sous son titre professionnel d’origine) since 2019. He has a first-class law degree from the University of Manchester and a master’s degree in Investment funds and Securities Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Christoforos specialises in the setting-up, ongoing regulatory compliance, restructuring and other transactional matters relating to alternative investment funds (both regulated and unregulated) and fund management companies.

Prior joining CMS, Christoforos worked as a practising lawyer for several Big4s and law firms in both Luxembourg and Cyprus since 2015.

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Education

  • 2015 –  Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Corporate and Securities Law, The London School of Economics and Political Science, England
  • 2014 - Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), The University of Manchester, England
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Webinar recording | AML/CFT: practical legal and regulatory con­sid­er­a­tions...
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