Ellex

Arunas Petrauskas

Mr Arunas Petrauskas is focusing on criminal law and family law. He is respected for his outstanding knowledge of procedural and material law as well as his long practical experience, which allows achieving the best results.Arunas is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania.

Audrius Petkevicius

Mr Audrius Petkevicius is specializing in the spheres of agricultural and other real estate, territory planning, privatization and land taxes, and has an exclusive competence in dealing with the issues of land use, land privatization, land taxation and evaluation, real estate cadaster and register, territory planning, infrastructure development and use, land-related relationships and conflicts, environmental protection and construction. He was involved in drafting amendments to laws and secondary legislation, including the following major projects: modification of the territorial planning system, modification of the land tax system, regulation of land ‘safeguards’, introduction of public land auctions, electronic procedures and documentation in land management and real estate cadaster. Audrius is an expert at Ellex in Lithuania. He co-heads the Real Estate & Environment Practice at our law firm.

Dovile Greblikiene

Ms Dovile Greblikiene has a strong track record advising on energy infrastructure-related transactions and regulations, as well as connected disputes. She is characterized as a dedicated and first-class expert on energy who works relentlessly with a business-oriented attitude in the face of complex questions and pressing deadlines. Dovile is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. She co-heads the Industry and Regulatory Practice at our law firm.

Dovile Stancikaite

Partner Dovile Stancikaite has experience in wide range of complex real estate acquisition projects and management projects, real estate litigations. Her experience includes work on complex real estate transactions, including real estate acquisition, tenancy, asset transfer, real estate investments, consultations on management of major shopping and office centres in Lithuania as well as representation of clients in real estate court disputes. Among her professional strengths are coordination and documentation of complicated transactions, understanding of the business operations of the client and business needs as well as proved excellent communication skills with international and local enterprises, their in-house and external counsels and public authorities of Lithuania.

Egidijus Baranauskas

Former judge for the Civil Division of the Supreme Court of Lithuania. Highly regarded for his in-depth knowledge of the legal system, offering solutions in the most complicated legal matters.He is praised in the market and described as an efficient negotiator. His wide-ranging practice encompasses contract, property and insurance-related disputes.Dr Egidjus Baranauskas joined the firm in 2012. He is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania.

Giedre Aukstuoliene

Ms Giedre Aukstuoliene specialises in arbitration and her solid practice includes representing clients under various arbitration rules, including UNCITRAL, SCC (the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce) and VCCA (Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration). She is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and recommended arbitrator at Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration.Ms Aukstuoliene joins receives excellent feedback as clients note that she is well spoken and delivers her argument calmly and well.She routinely acts on investment arbitration mandates.Giedre is an associate partner at Ellex in Lithuania. She co-heads the Dispute Resolution Practice at our law firm.

Giedrius Stasevicius

Mr Giedrius Stasevicius has a substantial experience in wide range of complex financing projects, including secured lending, mezzanine and subordinate lending, loan syndication, securitization, issuance of mortgage and corporate bonds. His experience in banking covers most of the business processes, including those of licensing, regulatory and reporting, funding, lending and other financial operations, regulation of winding-up and restructuring options of banks. Mr Stasevicius is a towering figure in the Lithuanian market. Giedrius is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. He co-heads the Finance Practice at our law firm.

Gintaras Balcius

Mr Gintaras Balcius is a seasoned tax consultant and economist. He is well known in the market and has a great reputation. He is former chief economist at the Ministry of Finance and is an experienced adviser on the taxation aspects of transactional and business organisation matters.Gintaras is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. He heads the Tax Practice at our law firm.

Ieva Dosinaite

During her professional career, Ieva represented and advised on complex financial regulatory issues many banking and financial institutions, insurance companies, trading companies, inter alia the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the European Investment Bank, Maxima Grupe, Vilniaus prekyba, Lithuanian Airports. As a finance law expert, she is commended for excellent negotiation and analytical skills when representing clients in financing negotiations.Ieva is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. She co-heads the Finance practice at our law firm.

Ilona Janciauskaite

Ms Ilona Janciauskaite has been advising clients on the competition law matters. She gained significant experience and personalised skills, handled most of the competition law matters of the firm. Ms Janciauskaite’s international secondment experience at Roschier in Finland also accelerated her counselling skills.Although her extensive experience covers the full scope of competition law issues and she has been involved in solving various delicate questions throughout the years of her practice, for the recent years, she has been mainly counselling on complexities of merger control questions in cross-border and national transactions in banking, private equity, retail, IT, and various other sectors.Ms Janciauskaite became a truly expert on competitor’s due diligence, integration planning and pre-closing conduct, as she was involved in most of the high-profile competitors’ mergers in recent years. Ilona is an expert at Ellex in Lithuania.

Ilona Andriusiene

Senior Associate Ilona Andriusiene has rich experience in real estate development, lease, construction and land use.

Jaunius Gumbis

Dr Jaunius Gumbis is one of the leading figures in the commercial and regulatory fields in Lithuania and the Baltics. His wide-ranging expertise encompasses TMT, automotive, pharmaceutical and energy sectors. He is described by clients as an impressive professional with outstanding qualities as a manager, maintaining first-rate customer service.Jaunius is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. He co-heads the Industry & Regulatory Practice.

Joana Baublyte-Kulviete

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Julija Nikitaraviciene

Ms Julija Nikitaraviciene has solid experience in wide range of complex real estate acquisition projects and management projects, real estate litigations. Her experience includes work on complex real estate transactions, including real estate acquisition, tenancy, asset transfer, real estate investments. Among her professional strengths are coordination and documentation of complicated transactions, understanding of the business operations of the client and business needs as well as proved excellent communication skills with international and local enterprises, their in-house and external counsels and public authorities of Lithuania.Julija is an associate partner at Ellex in Lithuania.

Karolis Kacerauskas

Dr Karolis Kacerauskas has extensive experience assisting clients with general competition and state aid matters, both contentious and non-contentious. His experience in consulting of public sector institutions and private enterprises on public procurement matters is assessed by both contracting authorities and by suppliers involved in public procurement. Among his professional strengths are coordination and documentation of complicated cases of state aid, competition law, public procurement and public private partnership, understanding of the business operations and business needs.Sources report him to be very well organised, self-disciplined and result-oriented. Karolis is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. He heads the Public Procurement Team at our law firm.

Marius Juonys

Mr Marius Juonys has solid experience in a wide range of competition law matters. Mr Juonys has headed all competition cases handled by the firm and has been personally involved in the vast majority of them. He is the most knowledgeable and respected competition law professional in Lithuania.Mr Juonys is a highly respected practitioner with a wealth of expertise in competition law matters. He is recognized for his depth understanding of industry nuances, clients also states that his expertise is second to none.Marius is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. He heads the Competition Team at our law firm.

Migle Petkeviciene

With experience in wide range of complex legal issues, including data protection, life sciences, healthcare, food, beverages and tobacco etc., Migle Petkeviciene leads the Life Sciences, Data Protection & Compliance Team. Among her professional strengths are extensive knowledge of regulated industries and expertise in advising the sector in complicated cases of data protection and pharmaceutical regulatory and other related spheres, understanding of the business operations of the client and business needs. Migle has proved her excellent communication skills with international and local enterprises, their in-house and external counsels and public authorities of Lithuania.Migle is an associate partner at Ellex in Lithuania. She heads the Life Sciences, Data Protection & Compliance Team at our law firm.

Miroslav Nosevic

Mr Miroslav Nosevic specializes in shareholder disputes, banking and financial, real estate and contract disputes. With extensive experience in civil matters, Miroslav is known for in-depth understanding of the Lithuanian litigation landscape, attentiveness to details and a perfect theoretical background, which allows him to produce a strategy perfectly corresponding to the client’s goals. For his Polish and Russian language knowledge Miroslav has already acted in several ICC arbitrations as a sole arbitrator solving disputes between the companies established in the Eastern Europe, Germany.Miroslav is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. He heads Business litigation team of the Dispute Resolution practice at our law firm.

Nijole Vaiciunaite

Ms Nijole Vaiciunaite has solid legal experience, specialising in real estate and construction. She has participated in a number of large-scale projects, including strategic regional projects of energy infrastructure: power link with Poland, strengthening of electricity transmission grid for power link with Sweden, projected Visaginas nuclear power plant and LNG terminal of the aggregate value of EUR 5-6 billion; as well as the largest real estate developments: building shopping centre Ozas with investment volume of EUR 170 million; modernisation of railways infrastructure by Siemens for EUR 48 million, etc. Nijole is an expert at Ellex in Lithuania. She is one of the leading lawyers of our Real estate practice.

Olga Petroseviciene

Dr Olga Petroseviciene is one of a few most known and trusted RE experts in the market working in the largest and most exceptional real estate transactions. Olga’s projects include advising the largest group of Lithuanian capital companies in the Baltic States on the sale of the exclusive office building complex S7, which is considered the largest in the Baltic States. Olga is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. She co-heads the Real estate & Environment practice at our law firm.

Paulius Gruodis

During his professional carrier, Paulius has been involved and proved his strong professional background and skills in numerous large and complex M&A transactions while advising such international clients as IKEA Group, E.ON Ruhrgas International, Ripplewood Inc., Allianz Capital Partners, Bank of America affiliate companies and various private equity funds.He is well regarded by market sources for his experience in the area. Paulius also is greatly valued by the clients for his supreme negotiating skills. Paulius is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. He co-heads the Corporate and M&A practice at our law firm.

Raimundas Lideika

Mr Raimundas Lideika is a senior practitioner who is regarded for his extensive track record and expertise in handling white-collar crime cases. He also focuses on civil disputes, covering professional liability and family law matters. He is well regarded for his white-collar crime practice, with clients remarking that he is a great example of a good criminal lawyer.Raimundas is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania.

Ramunas Petravicius

Mr Ramunas Petravicius has a substantial experience in various litigation cases, international and national arbitration cases, as well as working on various complex energy, mergers and acquisitions, reorganization, labor law and bankruptcy projects. He regularly represents clients in litigation, advises on pre-trial dispute management and prevention issues. Exceptional competence of Mr Petravicius in representing clients in labor-related disputes, providing labor law consultations to local and international companies, participating in a working group that helped to draft amendments to the Labor Code, is recognized internationally. He chairs Labor & Employment Committee at the Investors’ Forum (key investors organization in Lithuania).Ramunas is partner at Ellex in Lithuania. He co-heads the Dispute Resolution Practice at our law firm.

Rimantas Stanevicius

Mr Rimantas Stanevicius is specialising in labour and employment law. Rimantas also takes part in solving labour disputes and other issues of the area. Rimantas’ profound specialisation in the labour and employment law makes him one of the most valued professionals in Lithuanian employment market. Apart the labour law, he also deals with issues on management and acquisition of companies, as well as general corporate advice. As a member of Labour and Employment experts’ group of Investors’ Forum, association of the largest foreign investors in Lithuania, Rimantas actively participates in liberalisation of labour laws and improvement of employment environment in the country. In addition, he is a member and the chair of the board at Lithuanian Association of HR Management Professionals.Rimantas Stanevicius is visibile and highly regarded expert in the market. Sources say he is very specialised and provides quality services He is also noted for his experience in handling labour disputes.Rimantas is an associate partner at Ellex in Lithuania.

Robertas Ciocys

Dr Robertas Ciocys participated in negotiations and represented leading Lithuanian and multinational companies operating in energy, telecommunications and real estate industries in a range of acquisitions, sales and ventures.Clients praise Robertas, highlighting his very positive approach to work. Robertas is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. He heads M&A, Private Equity and Corporate Establishment Team at our law firm.

Rolandas Valiunas

Mr Rolandas Valiunas has more than 25 years of experience in advising multiple market leading international and local companies on sophisticated corporate, M&A and capital markets transactions.He is one of the most experienced business law experts in the Baltic region, who has been engaged in local landmark deals, as well as exceptional international projects. After declaration of Lithuania‘s independence, Mr Valiunas was involved in framing country‘s modern bar and setting standards for the best practice in legal services. Clients that have been attracted to Lithuania with the help of Mr Valiunas include Coca Cola (1993), SAS (1993), McDonald’s (1995), United Colors of Benetton (1995), and many more.Mr Valiunas is a towering figure in the Lithuanian market. He is highly recognised for his advisory practice, unparalleled market insight and enjoys solid praise from the market participants. Rolandas is the managing partner at Ellex in Lithuania.

Ruta Armone

Rūta Armone is a firm`s partner and one of the most promising young generation M&A lawyers in Lithuania and the Baltics, with over fifteen years of experience in corporate, M&A and securities law. This significant role was achieved after years of successful work at the international level as M&A legal advisor. Ms Armonė has represented various public and private clients on general corporate and complex transactional matters, including public offerings on the Warsaw and London Stock Exchanges, mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital financings. This includes working on clients’ corporate governance matters, assisting in legal due diligence, advising on transactions structuring and leading the project from day one to successful closing. Rūta is also an active member of the venture capital and startup ecosystem. She participates in working groups and associations to improve the legal and tax environment empowering entrepreneurs and high-growth tech companies to succeed. She is also active participant in the group working on changes to the Law on Companies and the Startup group which was formed by the Ministry of Economy to analyze and create instruments required for this ecosystem to grow.

Tomas Kamblevicius

Mr Tomas Kamblevicius specializes in Commercial & Compliance and IT&IP matters within the firm. He advises both local and global businesses – many of which are Fortune Global 500 and FTSE 100 companies – in a variety of industry sectors, but manly in information technology, telecommunications, industrials, consumer staples and consumer discretionary sectors. Tomas advises clients on a mix of commercial law matters with particular focus on general trade regulation, export and import controls, commercial agreements, electronic communications, product-specific regulation, product liability and other legal matters. Tomas is an associate partner at Ellex in Lithuania.

Vilija Vaitkute Pavan

Ms Vilija Vaitkute Pavan is actively engaged in arbitration and frequently serves as an arbitrator and counsel to numerous international and domestic arbitration proceedings under arbitration rules of the ICC, SCC, FCCC, CCIG, LCIA, UNCITRAL ad hoc arbitration rules and rules of the Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration (VCCA). Clients describes Vilija as highly respected for her work in high-profile Lithuanian arbitration cases, and is praised by one client as being excellent for strategic advice and additionally notes that Vilija has an impressive grasp of court psychology. She is one of the strongest names for both arbitration and litigation in jurisdiction. For 12 years Vilija was ICC Arbitration Court member for Lithuania thus giving her the opportunity not only to read thousands of various arbitral awards’ drafts but also being involved in numerous discussions over complicated arbitration issues. Vilija is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania.

Vytautas Mizaras

Dr Vytautas Mizaras is noted for his strong combination of academic knowledge and practical expertise. Over the recent years, Vytautas has been extensively representing clients and advising them on unique and strategic intellectual property matters. Vytautas is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. He heads the Intellectual Property, Media & Privacy Team at our law firm.

Zilvinas Zinkevicius

Mr Zilvinas Zinkevicius has solid experience representing Lithuanian and foreign entities in M&A, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. His professional strength is proved specialising in wide range of capital market transactions for market leading international companies, advising on the issue of bonds and convertible bonds, sales of shares, private equity deals, restructuring options of banks, as well as IPO’s and share listings. Mr Zinkevicius has been involved in and has proven his strong professional background and skills in numerous large and complex M&A transactions. He is a highly experienced corporate lawyer mainly assisting clients with M&A mandates. Clients highlight his strategic approach and ability to manage complex projects. Zilvinas is a partner at Ellex in Lithuania. He co-heads the Corporate and M&A Practice at our law firm.

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