Dr Phytos Poetis, OM, Dr iur (Hamburg), FCIArb, Barrister, is an international lawyer.
Dr Phytos Poetis, OM, Dr iur (Hamburg), FCIArb, Barrister, is an international lawyer.
Poetis studied law in London, where he was called to the English Bar in 1961 by the "Honourable Society of the Middle Temple (Barrister-at-Law)". [1] Since then, he has continuously been involved in the theory and practice of international contracts.
He continued his law studies in Germany at the University of Hamburg and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and Private International Law, where, in 1965, he earned the title of "Doctor of Laws," under the guidance of Professor Dr Konrad Zweigert, Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and Private International Law, and Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany,[ citation needed ] with a comparative international law doctoral thesis (in German) entitled: "Defects of Consent in the International Contract Law of Germany, Switzerland, Greece, England and the United States of America". [2]
Between 1975 and 1980, in addition to his practising law, he served as commercial manager, legal adviser and member of the corporate administration of "Coutinho Caro + Co" in Hamburg, a worldwide turnkey contractor, being responsible for the negotiation, drafting and implementation of contracts involving the delivery and installation of industrial plants and high-rise buildings.
In 1980 he was raised to the level of "Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators" [3] by its president, "Lord Donaldson, [4] Master of the Rolls [5] ", on the strength of his thesis "The Powers of the Engineer in Settlement of Disputes under the FIDIC-Conditions"; this was then published in the "Arbitration", [6] the Official Journal of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, in the "Quantity Surveyor", [7] and in the "Yearbook on International Arbitration". [8]
Dr Poetis was awarded the title and the honour and was vested with the office of the Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1998, in which he served actively till 2002.
In 2003 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for "Outstanding Achievements in Law".
He travels globally negotiating projects, drafting contracts, acting as fire-brigade, when legal, commercial or technical problems arise. He also lectures and delivers seminars on the specialist areas of export trade and international commercial arbitration.
Unique in his practice and possibly obvious is his conviction that "contracts, particularly contracts for technical projects, should, where possible, be negotiated and drafted by one and the same person who should be an international lawyer, with a commercial training, and who preferably has a technical understanding."
He further offers this definition and what the scope should be of the term 'international lawyer'. That an international lawyer is one that has the knowledge, experience and ability to think and understand the mentality and the legal approach of the negotiating partner(s).
That an international lawyer has the ability to negotiate with the contract party(-ies) in his language or in an international language. That an international lawyer shows the flexibility to travel and meet the contract party(-ies) wherever required, that an international lawyer has the ability to negotiate with foreigners and can finalise clauses or even whole contracts impromptu, with the personality to take commercial decisions impromptu, and has the ability to understand technical matters and the ability to take (thereon) decisions impromptu.
Since 1965 he has been the legal adviser to the German Embassy.
He was accredited, in 1975, as Official Interpreter and Translator to the Government of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg [9] for German-English-Greek.
From 1994 he extended the scope of his practice to working also as a European Patent Attorney [10] in the field of Intellectual Property (IP) acting for numerous international companies.
"Dr Poetis ®" is a registered trade mark of Dr Phytos Poetis.[ citation needed ]
Dr Poetis's practice was based in Famagusta until the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. After the invasion he moved his practice to Hamburg. In 1992 he moved his practice back to Cyprus and is now based in Larnaca.[ citation needed ]
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