Panayiota is a member of the Board of Directors of KPMG Law in Cyprus, heading the legal practice operating from the Limassol, Larnaca and Paphos offices. She is a business lawyer with significant experience on local and cross border assignments in M&A, commercial, corporate finance, restructuring and insolvency law. She is also a certified insolvency practitioner, a qualification which enables her to understand how distressed companies evolve and advise key stakeholders, and which, in combination with her acute understanding of how corporations work, allow her to carry out complex group reduction and legal entity rationalization exercises, irrespective of insolvency. She further has long-standing experience on managing and coordinating M&A projects from the early stages until completion and monitoring of post-closing obligations, and on organising assignments pertaining to the application of regulatory and compliance requirements.