Elias Neocleous & Co LLC proudly announces that Associate Adonis Zachariou has achieved the highest global score in the 2024 STEP Advanced Certificate in Trusts Law & Practice, earning a distinction and the prestigious STEP Excellence Award 2025. This accolade recognizes the top-performing candidate across all STEP qualifications worldwide, underscoring Adonis’s exceptional expertise in trust law and commitment to professional excellence.

Lots of energy and engagement at the Legal Tech Talk London 2025 - Europe's Event to Legal Transformation.

The European Design Regulation (EUDR) No. 2024/2822 amending Regulation on Community Designs, has come into force as of 1st of May 2025 (Phase I), whilst provisions for the implementation of the secondary legislation will come into effect as from 1 July 2026 (Phase II).

The Omnibus Simplification Package, introduced by the European Commission in February 2025, aims to ease sustainability compliance burdens on EU businesses, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), by simplifying key legislative frameworks such as the CSRD, CSDDD, EU Taxonomy, CBAM, and InvestEU.

We’re proud to announce that our partners, Angeliki Epaminonda and Angelos Onisiforou, have authored the Cyprus chapter of The International Comparative Legal Guide – Derivatives 2025, published by Global Legal Group.

Tax incentives offered to attract international and Cypriot professionals to Cyprus have resulted in €406.6 million in tax exemptions over a three-year period, benefiting 25,277 employees who moved to the island for work between 2021 and 2023.

The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cyprus, through Regulatory Administrative Act RAA 176/2025, has issued a Decree by which the deadline for the submission of the 2024 Personal Income Tax returns (TD1) has been extended to 23:59 hours on 30 September 2025.

AstroBank has announced that it has signed an agreement to sell nearly all its assets, liabilities and staff to Alpha Bank Cyprus, creating the country’s third largest bank.

Our summer work program kicked-off last Monday; we will be hosting groups of students for three consecutive weeks.

In today’s competitive job market, the temptation to embellish or falsify information on CVs is leading to a surge in fraudulent applications. For employers, this trend complicates the hiring process, increasing the time, cost, and effort required to verify credentials and identify genuine talent. Meanwhile, for candidates, the risks are equally severe. For example, if discovered, dishonesty can result in revoked job offers, reputational damage, or even legal repercussions in cases of outright fraud.