Cafés & Restaurants
Ownership and operation; premises licences; site acquisitions, leases and sale.
A Practitioner's Profile
Lakis Petrides
Company Director
Restaurateur, hotelier, commercial and residential landlord, and director of Courage Children's Home Ltd. A contracts manager by earlier profession and a recipient of the Queen's Award. Trustee, Diocese liaison, and a long-standing commercial presence in Cyprus alongside his work in the United Kingdom.
01 · Business
In commerce.
Mr Petrides has built and operated businesses across hospitality, hotels, residential and commercial property, and children's care. As principal and operator he has held the breadth of an owner's roles — from sourcing and lease, to staff and stock, to sale and, where necessary, to closure.
That breadth informs every engagement: owners come to the practice in opportunity and in difficulty alike, and the conversation begins from understanding — never from the outside.
Hotels
Management agreements, supplier and franchise contracts; acquisition, lease and disposal of hotel properties.
Property & Tenancies
Commercial and residential acquisitions and development; tenancies negotiated, renewed, restructured or terminated.
Children's Care
Director of Courage Children's Home Ltd — residential care for children with learning difficulties, mental-health and substance-related needs; child day-care; and the associated property work.
Cyprus & Overseas
Long-standing commercial presence in Cyprus — property, hospitality and contracts — alongside the practice's UK work.
Brokering, Finance & Negotiation
Business brokering, commercial finance, and negotiation conducted on the company's behalf with lenders, landlords, suppliers and counterparties.
Planning Authorities
Long-standing working relationships with local planning authorities across commercial and residential enterprises — change of use, premises, signage and associated permissions navigated with the patience the process requires.
02 · Engineering
In contract.
As contracts manager to international telecom companies, Mr Petrides led teams whose manufacturing work was recognised with the Queen's Award to Industry. The discipline of that practice — the patient sequencing of specification, schedule and settlement — is the same discipline that orders an acquisition, a restructure or a buy-out today.
Engagement letters are short. Contracts are long. We treat the latter with the attention they deserve.
Contracts Management
For international telecom companies.
Queen's Award
To Industry, for Manufacturing.
03 · Scientific
In method.
A doctorate in biochemistry following a first degree in the same field, with research at Unilever Plc on cancer cell studies and on the development of animal-free biochemical testing — work that contributed to the modern AMES test.
Method, in commerce as in science: evidence sought, hypotheses falsified, conclusions held lightly until the data insists. We bring the same rigour to a private valuation, a restructure plan or a turnaround schedule as we once brought to a research paper.
Cancer Research
R&D into cancer cells at Unilever Plc.
Animal-Free Testing
Development of biochemical testing without animal use.
AMES Testing
Contributing to its development at Unilever Plc.
04 · Philanthropy
In service.
Beyond commerce, Mr Petrides serves as business liaison to the Diocese of Rochester and the Church of England, and as trustee to several UK-registered charities. These engagements widen the practice's network — and inform a standing commitment: that introductions made by this practice, to capital or to counsel, are made with care, in confidence, and at no cost to either party at the outset.
It is a quiet practice, by design.
Diocese of Rochester
Business liaison to the Diocese & the Church of England.
Exit Foundation
Trustee — UK Registered Charity.
Teen Challenge
Business advisor — counsel on the acquisition and operation of properties used as residential facilities for young people in recovery from addiction. UK Registered Charity.
Vineyard Church
Acquisitions advisor — UK Registered Charity.
Consultation
An introduction, discreetly made.
We respond to every enquiry within one business day. Initial consultations are without charge or obligation.