Nicole is a lawyer with over 18 years practical experience and a solid track record demonstrating her cutting-edge expertise in her focused practice i.e on Banking & Finance (Loan & Security Documentation/PPF/BOT/PPP/Sustainable Finance); Capital Markets & Financial Services; Corporate & Commercial (Mergers & Acquisitions/Debt-collection and Insolvency/ BRRD). Nicole has lead financing transactions both domestically and internationally and advises on Cyprus and EU banking and financial services regulatory matters (MiFID II/EMIR/ MREL/Payment Services/Fintech, SRDII) including, listing of Capital Notes/Securities (Tier 1 & Tier 2) and advising on continuous Corporate Governance Compliance obligations of Regulated entities in Banking and Financial Services. Furthermore, she regularly advises banking institutions, issuers, underwriters, private equity sponsors, and financial product developers on bonds and securities including engaging in projects aiming to, provide insight on sustainability-linked and other financings and compliance regulatory sustainable development issues. 

During the last 8 years, Nicole has also worked on leading consultation projects, advising on the implementation of the UN Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) and on re-designed sustainability business strategies of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors.  In particular, she is engaged on projects for mapping, shaping, and implementing the investment policies, strategies and tools related to the EU Regulatory Framework and Action Plans Frameworks to support the flow of private finance towards sustainable economic activities under SDGs (e.g., Taxonomy Regulation, Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), MiFID, AIFMD, CRR). Between 2016-2018, she served as Independent Non-Executive Director at board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). For the period 2019-2021, also she served as a Non-Executive Member on the Council of the University of Cyprus (UCY). In November 2020, Nicole successfully completed the Sustainable Finance professional programme of Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Nicole is the founding pro-bono legal advisor to CSR Cyprus organisation (www.csrcyprus.org.cy).