Melina Karaolia

Melina Karaolia is a Partner at M. Eliades & Partners LLC since 2008. Her work encompasses a diverse range of corporate and litigation matters. She advises clients in multiple commercial, civil law issues and business law disputes. She concentrates on corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration. She advises and represents clients in international corporate transactions, commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions and legal matters relating to corporate project structuring and business development. Her practice areas also include insurance law, company redomiciliations and competition law. Melina has further received training and experience in the negotiation and drafting of contracts for Oil and Gas by the leading oil and gas lawyer J. Jay Park QC and the international legal adviser in Energy and Mining Dr. William T. Onorato. Melina is a qualified Arbitrator in Cyprus and Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London and a member of the Board of the Cyprus Arbitration Forum. She has acted for clients in both domestic and international arbitrations. She has further been trained and is currently actively interested and working with Mediation. She is an accredited and registered Mediator in Cyprus and has obtained the EMTPJ cross-border mediation certification, specializing in the settlement of international commercial disputes. Melina has been teaching Business & Corporate Law to finance major students at CIM Nicosia under the University of West London since 2018. She has further been training professionals and company officials on improving their negotiation skills and has been delivering trainings in international mediation and negotiation skills also jointly with Mr.Willem Meuwissen, a renowned and well established mediator from Belgium. Melina is a qualified and approved professional trainer by the Cyprus HRDA. Melina is also an accredited and registered as an independent Insolvency Consultant in Cyprus. She graduated from the Law School of the University of East Anglia, UK, with an LLB Honors degree. Melina holds a diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from Queen Mary University (London) and is a qualified Barrister-at-Law, a member of Gray's Inn London and the Cyprus Bar Association.