Alexander C. Papandreou - Partner

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Practice Areas            Casualty Litigation, Complex Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, Environmental     
                                                  Litigation, Insurance Coverage, Marine and Energy, Personal Injury, Subrogation and 
                                                  Recovery, Transactions and Contracts

 
Mr. Papandreou was born in 1967 and raised in Athens, Greece and attended the University of Athens – School of Law, where he received an LL.B. in 1988.  After successfully completing the mandatory two-year apprenticeship period and the required written and oral portions of the Athens bar examination, Mr. Papandreou was licensed to practice law in Greece (European Union) in 1991.  Mr. Papandreou received his U.S. legal education at Notre Dame Law School, where he received his J.D. in 1994.  He has also received a Certificate in Advanced Arbitration Skills – Comprehensive Course in Commercial Arbitration (Domestic & International) from the University of Houston Law Center’s A.A. White Dispute Resolution Center.  He has been licensed to practice law in Texas since 1994 and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Eleventh, and D.C. Circuits, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern, Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of Texas.

Since moving to Houston in 1994, Mr. Papandreou has been focusing his practice in the areas of admiralty/maritime, energy, and general commercial litigation and arbitration, as well as offshore and land-based casualty litigation for the energy, marine, real estate, manufacturing, construction, and dredging industries.  His experience includes handling complex offshore construction disputes in the petrochemical industry, class action litigation, litigation over long-term supply contracts, royalty rights, consumer fraud cases, multi-year insurance coverage matters, defense and prosecution of maritime commercial cases involving charter party disputes, demurrage, and dead-freight claims, as well as maritime liens and foreclosures.  Parallel to his litigation work, Mr. Papandreou has counseled several companies as to numerous Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Joint Operating Agreements (JOAs), Front-End Engineering and Design Agreements (FEEDs/pre-FEEDs), Engineering, Procurement & Construction Agreements (EPCs) and with respect to a variety of other transactions in the offshore drilling, procurement, engineering, exploration, and production areas.

Mr. Papandreou has successfully represented clients, including oil majors, drilling companies, vessel owners, major pharmaceutical and consumer products manufacturers, and dredging contractors, at the trial and appellate levels in a wide array of cases litigated in both federal and state courts of many jurisdictions.  He has also been involved in several arbitrations in the United States and internationally.  Mr. Papandreou is a member of the Advisory Board of The Institute for Transnational Arbitration, has authored several articles, and has also served as a guest writer for the Express Daily Financial Newspaper in Athens, Greece (1995-present).  Mr. Papandreou spoke at the 2006 SKULD P&I Club Piraeus Seminar on “Navigating the Shoals of U.S. Maritime Litigation: A U.S. Lawyer’s Perspective on a Unique Legal System.”  He is a member of the American, Federal, and Houston Bar Associations, the State Bar of Texas, the Athens Bar Association, and Proctor of the Maritime Law Association of the United States.  Mr. Papandreou speaks Greek, English, French, German, and Italian.

Direct Dial: (713) 706-1942
Fax: (713) 953-9470
Email: apapandreou@leggefarrow.com