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Everything you need to know about us.

Leadership & Innovation

G. C. Economou and Associates Law Firm provides a comprehensive specialist range of legal, financial, fiduciary, para-legal and secretarial services to local and international selected clients.

We have been dealing with issues relating to shipping, ship and aircraft registration, ship-finance, property, international tax planning, corporate and commercial activities, litigation and arbitration for over forty years, having commenced the practice in the now Turkish occupied Famagusta in Cyprus, followed by practice in Limassol, London (we are members of the English Bar), Piraeus and Athens (we are members of the local (Greek) Bar Associations).

What we do

**Private Wealth, International Structuring and Succession Planning**

We advise private clients, families, entrepreneurs and family offices on the structuring, protection and transfer of wealth across generations and jurisdictions.

Every engagement begins with the same question: what legal framework best serves this family's assets, relationships and long-term intentions? The answer is never standard. It depends on where assets are held, where family members live, how ownership and control should be distributed, and how wealth should pass — on death, on exit, or by design over time.

Our work covers the full range of private wealth structures: trusts, companies,
foundations and partnerships established in Cyprus, Greece or other international jurisdictions. We use these structures for succession planning, asset protection, family governance, investment holding, consolidation of assets and the orderly transfer of wealth to future generations. The assets involved span real estate, corporate interests, family businesses, investment portfolios, bank accounts, art, aircraft, vessels and other valuable property.

We coordinate closely with tax advisers, trustees, fiduciaries, banks, accountants, corporate service providers and foreign counsel. Our role is to ensure that each structure is not only correctly designed but properly implemented, compliant and functional across all the jurisdictions in which a client's life and assets are organised.

We also advise on relocation and pre-immigration planning, where a move to or from Greece, Cyprus or another jurisdiction may affect tax residence, succession rights, matrimonial property, corporate ownership or the broader management of family wealth. Given the close legal and commercial connections between Greece and Cyprus, we are well placed to advise clients whose affairs span both jurisdictions, as well as those using either country as part of a wider international structure.

We treat each mandate as a purpose-built legal framework — one that must reflect the client's assets, family circumstances, risk profile, governance needs and succession objectives. Discretion and long-term thinking are at the centre of everything we do.

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Publications
  • Contributor to various international publications on Tax Planning, European Law, Shipping Law and Arbitration. Including the Euromoney annual publication of the Guide to World Equity Markets, Chapter on Greece (1987 – 2000);

  • Author of the Chapter on Greece of the Sweet and Maxwell Publication on International Execution against Judgment Debtors;

  • Comparative Law Year book for International Business – special issue on Dispute Resolution Methods (Chapter on Greece) (1994 Ed.)

  • The International Bar Association Maritime Law Handbook (Chapter on Greece – Judicial Sales of Vessels and Priority of Claims) / ITPA Retirement in Europe – the Tax Aspect (Chapter on Greece).

  • Speaker at international gatherings on Shipping, Tax Planning, European Law and Arbitration.

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