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Dr Poetis, OM, Dr iur (Hamburg), FCIArb, Barrister, is known as an international lawyer. Until the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, his practice was based in Famagusta, after the invasion he moved his practice to Hamburg. Since 1992 he has moved back to Cyprus and his practice is now based in Larnaca. Background

He studied law in London, where he was called to the English Bar in 1961 by the "Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (Barrister-at-Law)".

He continued his law studies in Germany at the "University of Hamburg" and at the "Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and Private International Law", where he gained the title of "Doctor of Laws" at the University of Hamburg with a comparative international law doctorate thesis (in German) entitled "Defects of Consent in the International Contract Law of Germany, Switzerland, Greece, England and the United States of America".

In 1980 he was raised to the level of "Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators" on the strength of his thesis "The Powers of the Engineer in Settlement of Disputes under the FIDIC-Conditions"; this was then published in the "Arbitration", the Official Journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, in the "Quantity Surveyor", and in the "Yearbook on International Arbitration".

Dr Poetis was awarded the title and the honour of Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1998, in which he served actively till 2002.

In 2003 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for "Distinguished Achievements in Law".

He travels globally negotiating projects, drafting contracts, acting as fire-brigade, when legal, commercial or technical problems arise. He also lectures and delivers seminars on the specialist areas of export trade and international commercial arbitration.

Unique in his practice and possibly obvious is his conviction "that contracts, particularly contracts for technical projects, where possible, should be negotiated and drafted by one and the same person who should be an international lawyer, with a commercial training, and who preferably has a technical understanding."

Since 1998, he has extended his remit to work as a European Patent Attorney. To which he registered his name as a recognised trade mark "Dr Poetis ®".

He was accredited, in 1975, as Official Interpreter and Translator to the Government of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg for German-English-Greek.

Honours
 * Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany
 * Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
 * Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Selective Publications and Lectures


 * 1) Die Anknüpfung der Willensmängel im Internationalen Vertragsrecht Deutschlands, der Schweiz, Griechenlands, Englands und der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (Defects of Consent in the International Contract Law of Germany, Switzerland, Greece, England and the United States of America), Hamburg 1965
 * 2) About Legal Systems in General and the Law of Cyprus in Particular, Lecture before ΕΦΣΑ, Scientific and Philosophical Society of Famagusta, 1966
 * 3) Reformation of the Judiciary, A Comparative Study, Lecture before ΕΦΣΑ, Scientific and Philosophical Society of Famagusta, 1967
 * 4) Powers of the Engineer in Settlement of Disputes under the FIDIC-Conditions, published in: the Arbitation, the Quantity Surveyor and the Yearbook in International Arbitration, London 1980
 * 5) Die 20 wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten zum Immobilienerwerb in Zypern (The 20 Most Important Questions and Answers Regarding the Purchase of Immovables in Cyprus), published in: Investmentguide EU-Osterweiterung, Zürich, 2004
 * 1) Powers of the Engineer in Settlement of Disputes under the FIDIC-Conditions, published in: the Arbitation, the Quantity Surveyor and the Yearbook in International Arbitration, London 1980
 * 2) Die 20 wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten zum Immobilienerwerb in Zypern (The 20 Most Important Questions and Answers Regarding the Purchase of Immovables in Cyprus), published in: Investmentguide EU-Osterweiterung, Zürich, 2004
 * 1) Die 20 wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten zum Immobilienerwerb in Zypern (The 20 Most Important Questions and Answers Regarding the Purchase of Immovables in Cyprus), published in: Investmentguide EU-Osterweiterung, Zürich, 2004
 * 1) Die 20 wichtigsten Fragen und Antworten zum Immobilienerwerb in Zypern (The 20 Most Important Questions and Answers Regarding the Purchase of Immovables in Cyprus), published in: Investmentguide EU-Osterweiterung, Zürich, 2004

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