Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. partner Andrius Kontrimas assists clients effectively and efficiently with solving their domestic and foreign business problems - whether they are specific legal problems or just business matters that have legal consequences. At the foundation of his diverse practice is a commitment to cost-effectively solving clients' business challenges.

Andrius, who is Administrative Partner in the firm's Houston office, currently counsels clients in the following areas:

• Global Tax Planning: Suggests ways to structure, plan and document business transactions and organizations to optimize worldwide taxation
• Transfer Pricing: Represents multinationals regarding their intercompany transactions including policies, agreements, cost sharing, bilateral and multilateral APAs
• Joint Ventures: Advises domestic and international joint ventures and parties about structuring their relationships, exit strategies, ongoing operations and global tax optimization
• Private Equity Transactions: Represents financial managers, investors and portfolio companies that have been acquired or diversified by private equity funds; provides counsel on corporate and tax matters to domestic and foreign funds and participants
• International Mergers and Acquisitions: Represents buyers and sellers of public and private organizations in complex cross-border transactions
• Contested Tax Matters: Represents taxpayers in IRS audits as well as in civil litigation in the United States District Courts, United States Tax Court, and United States Court of Federal Claims
• Corporate Counseling: Serves as an advisor for legal matters both in the United States and abroad for a number of companies, including companies listed on the London Stock Exchange
• Political Action Committee and Election Law: Works with PACs, candidates and officeholders to facilitate compliance with federal and state requirements for reporting, legal liability, taxes and contribution limits
• Private Foundations and Other Exempt Organizations: Addresses legal aspects of philanthropy by drawing on years of experience representing a high-profile private foundation
• Art Law: Represents domestic and foreign clients (including foundations, museums, galleries, and dealers) regarding the ownership, sale or charitable disposition of works of art; offers substantial expertise in resolving looted art claims that arise from World War II

• American Bar Association - Section of Taxation
• State Bar of Texas - Section of Taxation, Treasurer
• State Bar of Texas - Section of Taxation, International Tax Chair
• Houston Bar Association - Tax Section, Former Chair 
• United States Supreme Court Bar Association
• California Bar Association
• International Fiscal Association (IFA)
• Texas Tax Lawyer, Editor
• Center for American and International Law, Symposium on Global Markets, Co-Chair (2009)
• World Law Group, former Board Member and Officer (1998 - 2007)

• Chambers USA, Tax (2008 - 2010)
• Texas Super Lawyer, Texas Monthly (2008 - 2011)

• Co-author, “2010 Year in Review – Tax Law,” Texas Bar Journal, January 2011
• Co-author with Brian P. Teaff, "Caution: New IRS Procedures Allow Whistleblowers to Gain Access to a Taxpayer’s Confidential Information," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Alert, June 2010
• Co-author, "June 30, 2010 Deadline Approaching for Certain U.S. Persons Required to File Reports Relating to Foreign Bank Accounts," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Alert, June 15, 2010
• Co-author, "Tax Talk:  IRS Focuses On Foreign Companies And Offshore Services," Oil and Gas Investor, April 29, 2010
• Co-author with Matthew T. Theurer, "HIRE Act Imposes New Reporting and Withholding Requirements on Foreign Financial Institutions," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Briefing, April 1, 2010
• Co-author, "IRS About To Start Detailed Employment Tax Examinations," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Briefing, February 24, 2010
• "IRS Targets Foreign Vessels Operating In the Oil & Gas Industry On the US Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico," Oil & Gas Financial Journal, January 2010
• Co-author with Lisa Rossmiller, "Undisclosed Offshore Accounts," Texas Lawyer, 21 December 2009
• Co-author, "IRS Takes Aim at Offshore Services to the Oil & Gas Industry," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Briefing, November 5, 2009
• "International Philanthropy a U.S. Tax Perspective," The Texas Tax Lawyer, October 2009
• Co-author, "IRS Extends Deadline For Voluntary Disclosure Program Until October 15, 2009," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Alert, September 22, 2009
• Co-author, "IRS Extends FBAR Filing Deadline for Certain U.S. Persons Until June 30, 2010," Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Alert, August 10, 2009
• Co-author, "Where is the 'United States' for Federal Tax Purposes?" The Texas Tax Lawyer, May 2009
• Senior editor, World Law Group, International Expatriate Employment Handbook, Kluwer Law International, 2006
• Co-author, "Direct Investment Issues (Including Competition and U.S./Mexico Taxation Treaty)," NAFTA and Beyond: A New Framework for Doing Business in the Americas, ed. Joseph Jude Norton et al., Martinus Nijhoff, 1995

1985 - J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
1982 - B.A., Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Andrius is admitted to practice law in California and Texas and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of Texas, United States Tax Court and the United States Court of Federal Claims.

He is Board Certified in Tax Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

• Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Member of the Board of Trustees
• Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Member of the Board of Directors