LCI Law

Managing Partners: Antonis Lagadianos, Evangelos Catsambas & George Iatridis

Senior Partners: Anastasia Dola Tsatsos & Ioanna Dimopoulou

Number of partners: 5

Number of other fee-earners: 8

International Offices: Dionysou 2, Kifissia, Athens 14562, Greece

Firm Overview  

LCI Law has three founding partners, Antonis Lagadianos, Evangelos Catsambas and George Iatridis, with nearly 90 years of experience at leading international law firms handling all types of maritime and commercial disputes and contractual work, including ship casualties. With their growing team of hand-selected partners, associates and trainees their aim is to offer clients excellent value with world-class legal support across multiple disciplines.

Main Areas of Practice & International Work 

Their 5 partners and 8 additional fee earners are based in Athens, Greece.

Recent significant works include:

• The Star Polaris – a reported High Court decision concerning whether lost profit can be claimed as a ‘consequential loss’ under a shipbuilding contract. Antonis Lagadianos & Evangelos Catsambas
• The Eleni P, a reported High Court decision concerning when the time charterer does/does not pay hire follow seizure and detention of the vessel by pirates. Evangelos Catsambas
• Acted for the buyers of two containerships which were under construction in a substantial dispute concerning the quality of the building works following the discovery of serious welding defects leading to the cancellation of the contracts. Antonis Lagadianos & Anastasia Dola
• Handled the Norman Atlantic high-profile case arising from a fire on board a ferry boat in the Adriatic Sea after sailing from Greece. George Iatridis
• Advising shipowners in connection with the pooling arrangements of a private fleet of bulk carrier vessels. Ioanna Dimopoulou
• Acted for the owners of a Capesize bulk carrier in an indemnity claim against time charterers following the collision of the vessel with a bunkering barge which caused significant pollution and substantial claims against the owners. Antonis Lagadianos
• Acting for a shipowner in a multi-million dispute with the cargo owners following a ship casualty concerning the recoverability of losses in general average and calculation of the ship’s contributory value. Evangelos Catsambas
• Handled the Sea Diamond high-profile Greek case arising from the sinking of a passenger ferry at Santorini, Greece. George Iatridis
• Acting for the successful buyers in a distressed asset purchase from an EU-based private equity fund. Ioanna Dimopoulou
• Acting for owners in a very substantial claim against charterers concerning a vessel cargo hold explosion during a sea voyage caused by the shipment of undeclared dangerous cargoes. Antonis Lagadianos
• Acting for the owners of three vessels in multi-jurisdictional enforcement proceedings against their defaulting charterers. Antonis Lagadianos
• Acting for the buyers of newbuilding ice-classed bulk carrier vessels in connection with the shipbuilding contracts, delivery documentation and the vessels’ registration under the buyers’ flag(s) of choice. Ioanna Dimopoulou
• Involved with a series of O.W. Bunker cases resulting in The Res Cogitans test case going to the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 2016. Evangelos Catsambas & Anastasia Dola
• Acted in a case concerning fraudulent bills of lading where a worldwide freezing injunction was obtained for the vessel’s owners and handled the multi-jurisdictional aspects arising out of this. Antonis Lagadianos & Anastasia Dola
• Acting for the subsidiaries of a U.S.-listed company growing their fleet through several cross-border sale and lease-back transactions in the Far East. Ioanna Dimopoulou
• Advising the in-house legal team of a group of oil refineries and terminals on a wide range of transactional and contentious matters. Ioanna Dimopoulou

Practice Areas and Offices 

LCI Law practice internationally under the jurisdictions of the Law Society of England & Wales as well as the Athens and Piraeus Bar Association.

Offices  

LCI Law, Dionysou 2, Kifissia, Athens 14562, Greece