LCI Law

LCI Law’s partners have around 170 years of combined experience at reputable national and international law firms handling all types of commercial disputes and transactional/contractual work, including maritime disputes and ship casualties. The firm's legal team offers its clients excellent value with world-class legal support across multiple disciplines.

Main areas of practice and international work
The five partners and eight additional fee-earners are based in Athens.

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 and 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