Eleni Polycarpou

She has long standing expertise in commercial arbitration as party appointed Counsel under various institutional rules as well as ad hoc arbitration proceedings. Eleni is also involved in investment treaty arbitration work and is Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and qualified to take arbitrator appointments.

Eleni specializes in international commercial disputes including heavyweight commercial fraud work both in the English Courts and in international arbitration. She acts for high net worth individuals and their companies often advising on shareholder and joint venture disputes, banking disputes, contract and tort disputes. She has a particular expertise in art law and is responsible for contentious art matters in the London office. Eleni is also well versed in mediation and has a track record of achieving a successful settlement of disputes via this method.

She has been described in the directories as someone who is ‘extraordinarily hard-working and conscientious’, a ‘star of the future’ and as someone who ‘just gets it, knows how cases should be handled especially when it comes to the very sensitive ones’. In art law she is described as someone who is ‘highly respected within the sector’.

She is from Cyprus and speaks fluent Greek, English and Italian. Eleni’s practice has a particular focus in acting for clients from those jurisdictions and from Russia and CIS, who often hold their interests through Cypriot companies.