Member Profile

Tassos Papadopoulos and Associates LLC has established itself as one of the leading law firms in Cyprus. When the late Tassos Papadopoulos founded the firm in 1970, on Sofouli Street in Nicosia, the office operated with only himself and a secretary - a typical lawyer’s office of that time.

In 1981, Tassos Papadopoulos established the partnership Tassos Papadopoulos & Co which dissolved in 2007. The majority of the partners from the dissolved partnership thereafter proceeded to establish the partnership Tassos Papadopoulos & Associates and the law firm, Tassos Papadopoulos &Associates LLC.

In July 2016 the firm moved its offices to new modern premises in the Jason Building, on 10 Iasonos Street, which meet the needs of both clients and personnel, with improved and immediate client service in mind.

The firm is today considered a full-service law firm. Its lawyers have the necessary skills to offer legal services in all branches of the law, excluding criminal law. The firm offers services in Banking Law, Energy Law, Company Law, Contract Law, Wealth and Asset Management, Mergers, Incorporation and Administration of Joint Ventures, Financing of Large Projects, Tax Law, Insurance Law, Public and Administrative Law, Public Procurement Law and Construction Law.

The firm has, in the past, dealt with mergers and acquisitions in Cyprus, acted as legal counsel in mergers between insurance companies and in acquisitions of venture capital by companies. Today, the firm offers legal counsel to investors in large construction projects, while Senior Partners of the firm are internationally-renowned arbitrators in all areas of the law.

Some of the firm’s partners have represented both local and foreign companies at the Cyprus Commission for the Protection of Competition on matters arising from acquisitions and mergers, while other partners have a wealth of experience and knowhow with regards public contracts and the representation of clients in landmark cases before the Tenders Review Authority.

The firm has created a special department dealing exclusively with personal and business investments. This department also offers services to foreign investors wishing to apply for naturalisation or residency in Cyprus under the immigration by investment programmes or the corporate migration policy. The department was created in response to increased demand from foreign investors seeking to invest in Cyprus and in order to cover all the dimensions of the investments and the requirements of such investors in a single department

Alexia‘s practice is focused on public law, including administration law, constitutional law and legislation drafting. Since May 2004 when the Tenders Review Authority (TRA) was established in Cyprus, following an obligation due to the accession of Cyprus to the European Union, Alexia has focused her practice almost entirely in the field of public procurement law and was actually the first lawyer in Cyprus to bring a case before the TRA.

In the past twelve years Alexia has handled many cases before the TRA acting in many of them on behalf of some of the major construction companies of the island, on behalf of international and local pharmaceutical companies, international and local information technology companies etc. Alexia has also defended semi-governmental organizations such as the Cyprus Ports Authority and the Limassol Sewerage Board in cases before the TRA.

Amongst many cases, Alexia has successfully handled some of the county’s leading public procurement cases including the public transportation services where she acted on behalf of the majority of public transportation companies against the State, the Cyprus Ports Authority information system for the portal community project where she acted on behalf of the Contracting Authority in a series of cases brought up at different stages of the tender procedure, and the cases of the exclusion of major construction companies from public contracts on the grounds of grave professional misconduct where she acted on behalf of two of the three construction companies against the State and which are deemed to be of great importance from a legal perspective and for the public interest in general. Alexia has also been involved in the past in the €650 million upgrade of the country’s airports, the Marinas BOT projects, the construction of Motorways and the Desalination Projects on the island.

Alexia’s expertise in public procurement law covers all stages of the tender procedure and it includes review of tender documents, drafting of tender documents on behalf of contracting authorities and advice at the early stage of the tender submission and tender evaluation. Alexia has also extensive experience in handling cases before the Supreme Court of Cyprus both at first and last instance in the field of public law in general and public procurement law in specific.

In 2010 Alexia was accepted as a member of the United Kingdom Procurement Lawyers Association. She has attended many European conferences on public procurement law and she is the author of legal publications in English and local magazines on public procurement law. Alexia speaks fluently Greek, English and German, and she has fair knowledge of French.

Our clientele includes prominent domestic and foreign financial institutions, large insurance firms, public entities and municipalities, major construction companies and real estate development companies, multinational and domestic pharmaceutical companies, multinational and domestic IT companies, legal entities active in the tourism and energy sectors, as well as shipping companies and individuals.