Associate Attorney

Areas of Legal Practice:

• Domestic and International Business
• Business Transactional Law
• Energy
• Commercial Litigation
• Bankruptcy

Corporate and Litigation Practice

Andrew Costa practices business and transactional law, covering a wide variety of both domestic and international corporate and energy law. With over 10 years of experience as a commercial litigator and in-house counsel, Andrew's scope of knowledge allows him to handle a variety of complex legal issues for his clients.

Client Services Include

• General Business Representation for both domestic and international companies including the review, negotiation and documentation of all types of commercial business agreements, including master service agreements, engineering and procurement contracts, consortium agreements, joint venture agreements, manufacturing agreements, contractor and subcontractor agreements, construction agreements, sale and marketing agreements, distributor agreements, indemnity agreements and commercial leases.
• Business Organizations for corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and limited partners, including formation, governance, shareholders' and members' agreements, stock purchase agreements, transfers of interests, buy-sell agreements, franchise agreements, confidentiality agreements, employment agreements, policy review and employee issues.
• General Business Litigation for a variety of domestic and international entities including litigation management involving the energy industry.

Admissions

State Bar of Texas

Education

LL.M., International Law, University of Houston Law Center
J.D., University of Houston Law Center
M.A., Comparative History, Brandeis University
B.A., History and Political Science, Trinity University
Study Abroad Program; Syracuse University

Experience

Publications

Co-author, "Commercial Bribery and the Next Wave of Global Anti-Corruption Enforcement" (forthcoming)
Co-author, "The Learned Intermediary Doctrine After FDA's Drug Watch and PhRMA's Clinical Study Results Database", DEF. COUNS. J. 12 (Jan. 2006)
"Negligence Per Se Theories in Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Litigation", 57 MAINE L. REV. 51 (2005)
"Minimum Contacts in Cyberspace: A Taxonomy of the Case Law", 35 HOU. L. REV. 453 (1998)