Andreas Andreou is the Vice-Chairman of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission. He has more than eighteen years' experience with regard to financial services regulatory work, corporate governance, onshore and offshore investment and hedge funds, fund formation, emphasizing alternative asset classes, corporate and commercial transactions in the asset management sector and international investment agreements. He was admitted to practice in Cyprus in 1995 and served as Head of the legal department of a large investment firm and subsequently as the General Counsel of another investment firm and its group of companies. Andreas holds an LLB degree with Honours and an LLM in European and lnternational Trade Law from Leicester University, England. He is a Barrister, member of Lincoln's lnn and a member of the Cyprus Bar. He is also a founding member of the Cyprus Association of Company Directors.