Associate Solicitor
Evangelos Kyveris is a corporate and commercial solicitor at RIAA Barker Gillette (UK). He advises a diverse range of clients, from start-ups and SMEs to financial institutions, multinational corporations, joint ventures, partnerships, and investors.
Evangelos has extensive experience in diverse corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), share schemes, complex restructurings, management buyouts, shareholder and joint venture arrangements, private equity transactions, venture and growth capital, share buyback arrangements and exits. He also provides strategic guidance on corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
Beyond his corporate expertise, Evangelos is skilled in commercial contract review, drafting and negotiation, covering supply and manufacturing agreements, terms of business, franchise and agency agreements, licensing and distribution contracts, sponsorship and exclusivity agreements, introduction and nominee agreements and other bespoke commercial agreements.
He earned his law degree from Sussex University before completing a Master’s Degree in International Commercial Law at University College London. After joining RIAA Barker Gillette (UK) in 2017 as a paralegal in the Real Estate team, he progressed through his training contract and qualified into the Corporate and Commercial team in April 2020. He works closely with Victoria Holland, the firm’s Partner and Head of Corporate and Commercial.
With a sharp commercial mindset and a client-focused approach, Evangelos Kyveris delivers practical, high-quality and results-driven legal solutions tailored to the needs of businesses and individuals with business concerns operating in dynamic industries.
BA Political Science and Public Administration, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
LLB Hons, University of Sussex
LLM Hons, University College London
LPC, City University
Solicitor of England & Wales (Admitted 2020)
Languages: English, Greek, German and Spanish
Expertise
Articles
Disclosure against warranties in UK corporate transactions – November 2024
Is your business acquisition ready? – June 2024
Business First Magazine – October 2023
Death of a shareholder – September 2023
How could your corporate commercial lawyer make or break your business? – June 2023
Articles of association and shareholders’ agreements explained – April 2023
Business First Magazine – April 2023
Protect SMEs from corporate criminal liability – December 2022
Key English commercial law differences post-Brexit – June 2021
Brexit Six: Contractual side effects from 1 January 2021 – December 2020
What might force majeure look like post COVID-19? – November 2020
The Insolvency & Corporate Governance Act 2020 – August 2020
COVID-19: Due diligence issues in corporate transactions – July 2020
Financial support measures for businesses – April 2020
How to sell a limited company – June 2019
Copyright in a digital age – May 2019
Banking and finance
Evangelos has experience in representing both lenders and borrowers on financing and re-financing and guarantee arrangements and working on banking and re-financing projects, including reviewing and drafting facility and loan agreements and security documentation such as debentures, charges, chattels mortgages, assignments, personal and corporate guarantees and security trustee and inter-creditor agreements.
Commercial
Evangelos’ experience includes handling commercial contract reviews, researching and advising on commercial law issues and drafting bespoke commercial agreements, including supply contracts (goods and services), terms of business, manufacture agreements, retailer supply agreements, franchise and commercial agency agreements, licensing agreements, distribution agreements, consultancy agreements, white label contracts, introduction agreements, nominee agreements, exclusivity agreements, NHS contracts, confidentiality agreements (NDAs) and website documentation.
Corporate
Evangelos has acted on numerous diverse corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), share and asset sales and acquisitions, complex restructurings, share buy-back arrangements, management buyouts, shareholder and joint venture arrangements, investments and exits.
Evangelos is well versed in matters of corporate governance, including the drafting and reviewing of board minutes and written resolutions, and has experience in dealing with company incorporation, business start-ups, limited liability partnerships (LLPs) and partnerships, company secretarial matters and due diligence.
Infrastructure projects and project financing
Evangelos has experience in advising various oil and gas exploration and transmission, distribution and development companies on all their matters relating to high-value multinational project finance transactions.
In particular, Evangelos has been involved in providing English-law opinions on sovereign guarantees, power purchase agreements, fuel supply agreements, EPC contracts, O&M contracts, letters of credit, performance guarantees, syndicated facility agreements, inter-creditor agreements, common terms agreements, sponsor support agreements, direct agreements, co-ordination agreements and security documentation.
