Andrius Kontrimas

Practice Areas

Andrius Kontrimas is an international tax and business lawyer with more than 40 years of experience helping global companies, middle market enterprises and wealthy families manage their affairs across borders. Whether structuring investments, resolving tax disputes or preserving generational wealth, he brings clarity to complexity and peace of mind to high-stakes decisions.

Five core areas—global structuring, transfer pricing, global mobility, private wealth and family office matters, and art law—comprise Andrius’ practice, each reflecting decades of experience advising clients whose interests span jurisdictions, industries and generations.

Andrius designs tax-efficient structures for companies expanding into or out of the United States or reorganizing business ventures across multiple jurisdictions. Clients rely on his strategic guidance to harmonize competing legal, regulatory and reporting regimes.

Advising on transfer pricing issues, Andrius helps clients with both the design of compliant transfer pricing frameworks and the defense of those frameworks in litigation. He has defended multinational companies in both the U.S. and foreign countries in disputes involving permanent establishment and tax treaty issues, source and character of income, anti-hybrid issues and the valuation of goods, services and intellectual property.

In the arena of global mobility work, Andrius helps employers integrate tax harmonization, immigration and employment policies to support the seamless movement of executives and key personnel worldwide including intercompany secondment structures, totalization agreements and best practice corporate policies.

Providing counsel on private wealth and family office matters, Andrius helps families plan, protect and transfer wealth efficiently across borders particularly for those with assets and family members present in multiple countries.

Andrius’ art law practice is among the most preeminent outside New York. He has advised the estate of Armand Hammer and other major collectors, galleries and museums, and handled one of the first U.S. cases involving restitution of Nazi-looted art.

Known for his conservative, competent and responsive counsel, Andrius also serves as outside general counsel—helping clients address a range of legal issues and manage business and legal risk in the U.S. and around the world.

Professional Memberships

Fellow, American College of Tax Counsel

Member, American Bar Association - Section of Taxation

Former Chair, State Bar of Texas - Section of Taxation

Former Chair, Houston Bar Association - Tax Section

Member, United States Supreme Court Bar Association

Member, California Bar Association

Member, International Fiscal Association (IFA)

Certified in Tax Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization (1991)

Board of Trustees, Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Member of the Legal and Audit Committee, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and former Board member

Former Officer and Member of the Board of Directors, University of St. Thomas