Marina Hadjisoteriou is a Partner and Head of International Disputes at Patrikios Legal, a top tier firm in Limassol, Cyprus.

Her main areas of practice are asset recovery, cross-border commercial litigation, international arbitration and insolvency.

Marina has consistently been ranked by The Legal 500 EMEA as a ‘Leading Partner’ and has also been recommended by Chambers and Partners for dispute resolution in Cyprus. She has also been ranked as an asset recovery, commercial litigation, arbitration and insolvency leader in Cyprus by Lexology (former Who’s Who Legal (WWL)).

The directories describe Marina as ‘one of the best dispute resolution practitioners in Cyprus’, who ‘crafts a legal case like a spider crafts his web‘. She ‘handles complex disputes across multiple jurisdictions well‘, ‘has an eye for business and is adept at spotting the issues quickly and understanding the commercial realities for her clients’, she is ‘very well-known far beyond Cyprus’ and ‘is a real asset for the firm’.

Marina holds a BSc in Accounting and Economics (First Class Honours) and she is a Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).

Marina is a member of the Cyprus Bar Association (CBA), an officer (Levant Regional Representative) of the Asset Recovery Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), a member of the Steering Committee of IWIRC (International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation) Europe, a member of the board of directors of IWIRC Cyprus, a member of the board of directors of the Cyprus Arbitration Forum (CAF ) and the organising committee of CAD.

She has significant experience of international high value, complex fraud and asset tracing cases involving world-wide freezing orders, disclosure orders and gagging orders. Her clients include multi-nationals, banks and high-net-worth individuals.

Marina has authored various publications and she is often invited to speak at international conferences.