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Polis G. Polyviou was born in Nicosia. He is the Senior Partner of the law firm of  Chryssafinis & Polyviou LLC.  He is the author of numerous books and a number of articles in legal journals and periodicals.His main areas of practice and expertise are banking and finance law with specialization in mergers and acquisitions, competition and employment law, and constitutional, administrative and regulatory Law.

 He is the Legal Adviser of a number of Companies and Corporations, and has very extensive experience of drafting, of dealing with legislation, of public law, and of consulting and liaising with Government authorities.  His firm employs a substantial number of specialized staff - lawyers and others - and has carried out work for many clients both abroad and in Cyprus.  He has acted, inter alia, for the Government of the Republic of Cyprus both before the Supreme Court of Cyprus as well as before the judicial organs of the Council of Europe in a number of important cases.  He has been acting as legal adviser of Cyprus Airways Ltd. and of the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation for decades and has specialized, inter alia, in broadcasting matters, in respect of which he attends the Sessions of the Legal Committee of the European Broadcasting Union on behalf of the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.  He is the external Legal Adviser of the Bank of Cyprus Ltd. – the largest financial institution of the Island, Alpha Bank and the Cyprus Development Bank.  He has also worked for long in the area of Petroleum Law, and in this capacity has acted as Counsel for ESSO, BP and Hellenic Petroleum for almost three decades. 
P.G. Polyviou practises widely before Cypriot Courts and Tribunals and regularly handles matters and issues of private/civil law, including Contract and Tort.  

He has appeared before the European Court of Human Rights and also before the International Court at The Hague, in the Kosovo case, where he represented the Government of the Republic of Cyprus. 

P.G. Polyviou has taken part in many arbitrations, both as counsel and as Arbitrator, and has often given expert evidence before foreign tribunals.

He attended the University of Oxford during 1968-1972, obtaining the degrees of B.A. (Hons) in Jurisprudence and B.C.L. P.G. Polyviou obtained a First at Oxford and was also awarded the Martin Wronker prize in Law for the best performance of the year in the University.He was then called to the Bar, being awarded the MacKaskie scholarship and was then the Procter Research Fellow at the School of Politics of the University of Princeton. He was then a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Law in the University of Oxford between 1974 - 1980.