Georgina Kyriacou

Georgina is a Solicitor with over 35 years’ experience in advising substantial businesses on complex legal issues and providing strategic and commercial solutions.

These are Georgina Kyriacou's areas of expertise:

She has established and led teams of solicitors in the business sector having significant experience in every aspect of commercial transactions. Her experience includes mergers and acquisitions, re-structuring and insolvency. She has also advised businesses with regard to a wealth of contentious and non-contentious employment issues.

Georgina has built up a reputation for her clear thinking commercial acumen and effective commercial solutions. The Legal 500 being the world’s leading independent authority on legal service providers describes Georgina as “very strategic in her thinking and advice”.

She has acted for a number of companies with household names and has specific experience in the banking, catering, construction, data, estate agency, fit out, food, property development and investment and retail sectors as well as acting for professionals such as accountants, fund managers and investors.

Her experience includes Mergers and Acquisitions, MBO’s, Re-Financing, Corporate Governance, Shareholders’ Agreements, Franchise Agreements, Terms and Conditions of Business, Licensing Agreements and numerous other Commercial Contracts, Contentious and Non-Contentious Employment matters including Contracts of Employment and Service Agreements and dealing with variety of complex Tribunal claims including Unfair Dismissal, Discrimination Claims and TUPE.

Georgina also has experience in all aspects of corporate recovery work including administrations, liquidations, receiverships, company voluntary arrangements (CVA’s), individual voluntary arrangements (IVA’s) and bankruptcy. Advising insolvency practitioners as to the validity of their appointment and other legal compliance issues as well as acting for insolvency practitioners in selling businesses, tracing, pursuing actions against directors such as preferences, wrongful trading and other misfeasance actions.

She also has extensive experience in dealing with directors’ disqualification claims and assisting them in their capacity as shareholders with winding up petitions and unfair prejudice claims. She has dealt extensively with shareholder disputes especially between family members of substantial private limited companies and partners of incorporated (LLPs) and unincorporated partnerships.

Experience

Acting for a multi-million pound retail household name in relation to corporate re-structuring and re-financing
Acting for the directors and shareholders of a well known chain of restaurants in a multi-million pound minority shareholder action
Acting for a national construction company with regard to over 700 TUPE highly complex claims valued at £17m
Acting for a high net worth individual with regard to a multi-jurisdictional matter for claims in excess of US$150m and counterclaim of US$48m
Acting for private banks in relation to significant bonus claims
Acting for financial institutions with regard to team lifts of talent to and from competitors
Acting for a number of estate agents in relation to the sale and purchase of businesses
Acting for a number of insolvency practitioners in the sale of assets in varying sectors including pharmaceutical and property
Advising numerous companies on various matters including re-structuring, acquisitions and a variety of commercial agreements
Acting for a South African investor in relation to an acquisition in the UK
Acting for a US company in an acquisition of a UK business specialising in airport security devices
Acting for numerous companies in exiting senior executive and negotiating substantial packages
Acting for a leading construction and regeneration group with a turnover of over £3 billion in significant employment matters
Acting for numerous SME’s in relation to sale and purchase of businesses and shares
Acting for a trustee of a charity in relation to investigations by the Charity Commission
Acting for a company and majority shareholders in relation to the actions of a director and shareholder in a breach of duty case
Acting for a multimillion pound petrol station group in the context of a minority shareholder action, the sale of shares and a corporate restructuring
Acting on various share acquisitions and company buy backs