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Agis Georgiades is an advocate, barrister, arbitrator and mediator. He is a member of the Cyprus Bar Association, the Bar of England and Wales, and is also a registered practitioner in the DIFC Courts. He is based in Nicosia and is a Partner and Head of International Disputes at CGA, focusing on complex international dispute resolution, including arbitration and litigation before local and international tribunals, in Cyprus and abroad. Agis is listed as an arbitrator by several institutions, including APIAC, ArbCEE, BAC, BVI IAC, CAfA, CAMC, DIAC, HKIAC, JCAA, KFCRI, LCIA, OIC-AC and RAA, SCCA, UAA and VIAC; and is also listed for Bilateral Disputes in relation to the EU’s Trade Agreements with Third Countries. As an arbitrator, he has wide experience in commercial, construction and corporate disputes. As counsel, he has had a broad commercial and international practice since 2005. Agis regularly acts for and against states and state entities. He has argued international commercial, construction, corporate (including corporate fraud), energy, IP and investment cases before arbitral tribunals and courts. He has extensive experience in emergency proceedings of all types. He also appears frequently before the Tenders Review Authority in relation to large procurement projects. Agis was a Member of the LCIA Court (2020-2025). He is an Ambassador of VIAC, a Fellow of the CIArb, and an Accredited Mediator. Since 2026, he has been a member of the ICC Institute of World Business Law and of the ILA Committee on Conflict of Laws Issues in International Arbitration. He is also on the board of directors of the Cyprus Arbitration Forum and the founder and co-chair of Cyprus Arbitration Day. He was a member of the Cyprus Supreme Court’s CPR Revision Committee and is an advocate member of the Cyprus CPR Standing Committee. He is Adjunct Faculty at the University of Nicosia, where he lectures on Arbitration. He also lectures in the CIArb Maritime Arbitration Diploma and the Cyprus Centre for ADR. Agis holds a law degree from the University of Leeds, an LLM from LSE, a Postgraduate Diploma in International Mediation and Construction Arbitration from Queen Mary College, a Diploma in Negotiations from the Athens University of Economics and Business and has completed the ICC/CIArb Advanced Arbitration Academy. He has published on arbitration, mediation, civil procedure, international law and law of evidence.