Thomas Papadopoulos

Thomas Papadopoulos is an Assistant Professor of Business Law at the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus. He received his DPhil in Law from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK (2010). He received a degree of Magister Juris-MJur (2006) and a degree of MPhil in Law (2007) from the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK. He also received his LLB with Distinction (ranked 1st) from the Department of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2005). Previously, he was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School (2009-10). He is also a Visiting Professor at International Hellenic University, an Adjunct Professor at Open University of Cyprus and an Attorney at law (Greece). Moreover, he is an Editorial Secretary of European Company Law (ECL) Journal published by Kluwer. He was also visiting researcher at King’s College London and at Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law. He was awarded the “Cyprus Research Award-Young Researcher (2014)” of the Research Promotion Foundation of the Republic of Cyprus (category of “Social Sciences & Humanities”). This distinction was awarded on the basis of his research on Takeovers and Mergers and was accompanied by a research grant. His main research areas are business law, company law, financial law, capital markets law, competition law, insolvency law, European economic law and internal market law. His articles were published in many top international law journals. He is also the author of the following monograph published by Kluwer: EU Law and the Harmonization of Takeovers in the Internal Market, 2010, Kluwer. Moreover, he is the editor of the following book published by Springer: Cross-Border Mergers - EU Perspectives and National Experiences, 2019, Springer.