Dr Charalambos Savvides

Dr Charis Savvides is an experienced corporate lawyer, member of the Cyprus Bar Association, and law lecturer at the Department of Digital Innovation, School of Business of the University of Nicosia. He obtained his law degree from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2005 and continued his postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom, with emphasis on International and European Business Law, obtaining his LL.M in International Commercial Law from the University of Nottingham and his PhD in Law from the University of Sheffield. His doctoral thesis was on competition law and more specifically on the EU regulatory framework on state aids to firms in difficulty.

He is founder of Ch. P. Savvides & Associates LLC, a highly innovative boutique law firm in Cyprus. From 2022 to 2025, Dr Savvides was a Partner at Grant Thornton (Cyprus), serving as Head of Regulatory Compliance and Funds Services. Following the reorganisation of the funds services practice, he is now a Partner at PrimeraX Ltd, formerly Grant Thornton Funds Services (Cyprus) Ltd, following its acquisition and rebranding. His practice areas include, among others, the regulatory framework of digital services and digital markets, with a strong focus on corporate, investment and financial law. He also advises extensively on family office structures, international trusts, private wealth planning, asset protection, and cross-border estate and succession matters. He is also one of the leading lawyers in Cyprus in the field of Blockchain and crypto-asset advisory services, serving a vast clientele, both in regulated and non-regulated markets, such as Investment Firms, Alternative Investment Funds and Fund Managers, Crypto Asset Service Providers, Banks and Electronic Money Institutions.

Dr Savvides is regular speaker and instructor at professional seminars, workshops and conferences, where he shares his knowledge and experience about the regulatory status and trends in the fields of Investment Funds and the broader area of regulation and technology, including Blockchain and digital currencies. He is the leading instructor of all regulatory courses in the Master’s programme of the University of Nicosia in Blockchain and Digital Currency, which is the world’s first Master’s degree in Blockchain and one of the top academic programs in the field. He also served as Expert Panel Member of the EU Blockchain Observatory & Forum (a European Commission initiative to accelerate blockchain innovation and the development of the blockchain ecosystem within the EU). In parallel, he regularly delivers specialised training to law enforcement authorities worldwide on crypto-asset investigations, and financial crime enforcement, including programmes organised by CEPOL, the Dubai Police, and the Abu Dhabi Police.