A clear framework for your business.

We advise on the selection, formation, and registration of companies and other business vehicles, ensuring the legal form matches tax, liability, governance, and investment needs. Our services typically include:

• Structuring advice (shareholders vs. members, control rights, capital requirements, liability exposure)
• Incorporation and registrations for any type of company or entity, including subsidiaries and holding structures
• Drafting and filing constitutional documents (articles/bylaws, shareholder/member resolutions)
• Share capital and equity structuring (classes of shares, preferences, convertible features where permitted)
• Founder arrangements and pre-incorporation matters
• Initial corporate housekeeping: registers, appointments, authorizations, and compliance framework

Sound governance reduces internal disputes, protects directors and officers, and improves bankability and investor confidence. We provide ongoing corporate secretarial and management support, including:

• Board and shareholder governance: meeting procedures, resolutions, delegated authorities
• Director/officer duties, conflicts of interest, related-party transactions
• Corporate reorganizations and group structuring (share transfers, capital changes, intercompany arrangements)
• Policies and internal controls (signing authorities, approvals, record-keeping)
• Maintenance of statutory registers, ownership records, and corporate compliance obligations
• Advisory support to management on operational legal issues and risk allocation

We draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements with the aim of protecting value and minimizing avoidable risk. We focus on clarity around scope, payment, performance, liability, and termination—areas that most often drive disputes. We advise on:

• Service, supply, distribution, agency, and outsourcing agreements
• Terms and conditions, SLAs, statements of work, and procurement documentation
• Partnership, joint venture, and strategic collaboration agreements
• Confidentiality agreements (NDAs), non-compete/non-solicitation where enforceable
• Shareholder agreements and management agreements
• Contract risk audits: limitation of liability, indemnities, warranties, IP ownership, confidentiality, termination rights
• Contract lifecycle support: templates, playbooks, and negotiation support for in-house teams

We advise buyers, sellers, and investors on transactions ranging from small private acquisitions to multi-party corporate reorganizations. Our role is to manage legal risk, facilitate closing, and ensure the deal terms are enforceable and implementable. Services include:

• Transaction structuring (share sale vs. asset sale, earn-outs, deferred consideration)
• Legal due diligence (corporate, commercial contracts, litigation exposure, compliance and governance)
• Drafting and negotiating key transaction documents:
  • Letters of intent/term sheets
  • Share/asset purchase agreements
  • Disclosure letters
  • Transitional services agreements
  • Escrow and security documents (where applicable)
• Closing management: conditions precedent, regulatory filings, corporate approvals
• Post-closing integration support: governance updates, contract assignments/novations, restructuring

When a business faces financial distress, timing and strategy matter. We advise directors, shareholders, lenders, and counterparties on restructuring options and insolvency proceedings, with a focus on protecting stakeholders and ensuring compliance with directors’ duties. We assist with:

• Early-stage distress advisory: risk assessment, creditor strategy, viability planning
• Debt restructuring and workout arrangements
• Negotiation with creditors, suppliers, and landlords
• Insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings (as applicable), including filings and representation
• Protection of management and director decision-making (documentation, compliance, fiduciary duties)
• Asset preservation, security enforcement strategy, and dispute management
• Turnaround support in coordination with financial advisors

We manage formal and informal business closures, ensuring a clean legal exit and minimizing residual exposure. Our services include:

• Voluntary liquidation and winding up procedures
• Dissolution planning: settlements, creditor notices, asset distributions
• Director and shareholder approvals, final accounts coordination (with your accountants)
• Termination/assignment of contracts and final compliance steps
• Closing down subsidiaries and group simplification exercises

Where permitted by law and subject to strict compliance standards, we provide corporate nominee services to support lawful structuring, continuity of management, and privacy needs in legitimate commercial contexts. Our approach is risk-controlled and documentation-driven, designed to ensure transparency to the extent required by applicable regulations while protecting the client’s legal position.

Our nominee-related support may include:

• Nominee director, secretary, registered address and nominee shareholder arrangements(where legally available), structured to reflect the client’s lawful instructions and the nominee’s statutory duties
• Corporate representation services, including execution support and signatory arrangements in line with corporate approvals and delegated authority frameworks
• Declaration of trust / nominee declarationsand related documentation (as applicable) to evidence beneficial ownership and control arrangements
• Governance and compliance controls, including board protocols, reporting lines, conflict management, and record-keeping
• Coordination with beneficial ownership and AML/KYC requirements, ensuring nominee structures do not conflict with disclosure obligations, regulatory filings, or banking requirements
• Ongoing monitoring and risk management, including periodic reviews to ensure the structure remains compliant as the business or regulations evolve

Where permitted by law and subject to strict compliance and professional standards, we advise on the establishment, structuring, and ongoing administration of trusts for legitimate wealth planning, succession, asset-holding, and commercial purposes. Our trust work is designed to ensure the structure is legally valid, operationally workable, and aligned with tax, regulatory, and disclosure obligations.

• IP ownership and assignment (trademarks, patents, copywrites etc)
• Licensing, technology transfer, brand/trademark strategy coordination
• IP clauses in commercial contracts (ownership, usage, indemnities)

In addition to corporate and commercial law, our firm offers specialized services in trust establishment and administration under Cyprus law. Trusts provide a strategic way to manage wealth, protect assets, and plan for future generations. We assist clients in safely passing assets to heirs, providing for vulnerable family members, and shielding assets from creditors or disputes.

At Kesidis Law Firm, our commitment is to deliver trusted, high-quality legal services that support businesses and individuals in navigating corporate, commercial, and trust law with confidence and success.

Our trust law services include:

• Establishment of trusts under Cyprus Law, including structuring, drafting, and regulatory advice

• Creation of Private Trustee Companies (PTCs) for High-Net-Worth Individuals seeking dedicated trustee services

• Advising clients and trustees on trust law compliance, trustee powers, and beneficiary rights

• Drafting and reviewing trust settlements, deeds, and declarations, ensuring legal soundness and effectiveness

• Acting as trustee or protector for clients to secure their wealth and family interests