Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Cyprus
Elias Neocleous
Andreas Neocleous & Co
Neocleous House
199 Archbishop Makarios III Avenue
CY-3608 Limassol
Cyprus
Tel: (357) 25 362818
Fax: (357) 25 359262
Email: eliasn@neocleous.com
Website: www.neocleous.com
Elias Neocleous was born in Limassol, Cyprus in 1968. He graduated in law from
Oxford University in 1991 and is a barrister of the Inner Temple. He was admitted to
the Cyprus Bar in 1993 and has been a partner in Andreas Neocleous & Co since 1995.
He currently heads the firm’s corporate and commercial department as well as the
specialist banking and finance and tax groups.
His areas of practice are banking and finance, company matters, international trade,
intellectual property, trusts and estate planning and tax. Elias is a founder member of
the Cyprus Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and serves on its committee. He
is a founder member of the Franchise Association of Greece, a member of the
International Bar Association, the International Tax Planning Association, an
honorary member of the Association of Fellows of Legal Scholars of the Center for
International Legal Studies and the honorary secretary of the Limassol Chamber of
Commerce and Industry.
The Chambers Global guide recommends Elias Neocleous as “‘an excellent person to
deal with, a smart, resourceful performer’, according to his clients.”
Elias has a large number of publications to his credit, including: “Corporate tax residence
following the Cadbury-Schweppes decision”, Tax Business, November/December 2006;
“The Cyprus Holding Company”, Offshore Investment, September 2006; Corporate
taxation in Cyprus – an ideal destination for holding companies, Euromoney Corporate Tax
Handbook 2006; “Cyprus-Europe’s low-tax financial and business center”, Offshore
Investment, September 2006.
Elias is also author of the Cyprus chapter in International Succession Laws, by Lexis
Nexis Butterworths (2002), Planning and Administration of Offshore and Onshore Trusts,
by Lexis Nexis Butterworths (2003), Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook 2003/04, by
Practical Law Co, Tax Law Handbook 2004 by Practical Law Co and World Trust Survey
2006, by Trusts & Trustees. He is co-author of Introduction to Cyprus Law, by Andreas
Neocleous & Co (2000), Tax Planning in the New EU Countries: Malta & Cyprus, by
BNA International (2005) and co-author of the Cyprus chapter of the Practitioner’s
guide to Takeovers & Mergers in the EU, by City & Financial Limited 2005.
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