White & Case LLP - Lawyers - Frank Panopoulos

Practice Experience

Frank Panopoulos primarily focuses on White & Case's representation of global commercial and financial companies and foreign governments (including state-owned entities) in complex international commercial and sovereign litigation and arbitration. His experience includes federal court litigation, appellate practice, representing clients before the US Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control, ICSID and ICC arbitrations.

Mr. Panopoulos has extensive experience in various industry sectors including oil and gas, uranium, energy, pharmaceuticals, international banking and finance, and infrastructure construction.

He has served as counsel in numerous representative matters:

Representing the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia in a case involving a four-year litigation before a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in which defenses under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) to enforcing a judgment against the sovereign based on an arbitral award rendered against a separate Indonesian instrumentality were at issue;
Counsel in successful defense of a major Saudi bank alleged to have financially supported terrorism. Won pre-trial dismissal of $1 billion claim;
Counsel in successful defense of a preliminary injunction brought against International Finance Corporation (IFC) in the US District Court for the District of Columbia;
Counsel in successful defense of a lawsuit in US court seeking preliminary injunction and specific performance against a Russian state-owned entity while the dispute was being arbitrated in Sweden. Won dismissal of the lawsuit;
Representing the Republic of the Philippines in parallel ICSID and ICC arbitrations arising from termination of the concession to build and operate the new international airport terminal in Manila; and
Representing a global energy company in an ICSID arbitration against the Government of Turkey arising as a result of acts of the Government of Turkey in violation of the US/Turkey Bilateral Investment Treaty.

Prior to joining White & Case LLP, Mr. Panopoulos served as law clerk to the Honorable Arthur D. Spatt of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York and law clerk to the Honorable Frank X. Altimari of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 1992
District of Columbia Bar, 1998
US Supreme Court
US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
US District Court for the Southern District of New York
US District Court for the Eastern District of New York
US District Court for the District of Columbia
US District Court for the District of Maryland

Education
JD, Columbia University School of Law, 1991
BA, Manhattan College, 1980

Languages
English
Greek

Citizenship
United States