Sorainen has an excellent reputation for advising on a broad range of TMT matters. Key drivers of work for the group include data protection, regulatory and compliance issues, TMT transactions, related M&A deals and market entry issues. The client base includes prominent global companies Microsoft and Google, alongside media, telecoms, tech and IT entities. The practice is led by the triumvirate of Laimonas Skibarka, Jonas Kiauleikis and Stasys Drazdauskas, who specialises in information technology, IP, and data protection law. Matas Mačiulaitis and Mindaugas Dominykas Baniulis have expertise in handling large venture capital investments. Sidas Sokolovas and Irma Kirklyte are key names to note.
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‘The team provides practical advice in a timely manner. The advice is both useful from a business perspective as well as from a legal perspective. We work with Sidas Sokolovas who is always great. He is practical, timely, business-oriented and legally correct!’
‘Very professional and engaging team. What is important is that the Sorainen team can explain complex subjects to everyone at every level.’
‘The individuals I worked with are their subject matter experts. We don't get one person who handles all of our cases but we get individuals who are experts in their field.’
‘Prompt and practical advice.’
‘Sidas Sokolovas - valued for pragmatic, fast and commercially-minded response.’
‘The team is highly responsive and motivated group of people with great expertise. Our cooperation is dealing with a client who is a major tech company. The teams help us with any new product/service analysis and supports our efforts to keep the client complaint.’
‘They have client-centric approach. Sorainen is committed to providing its clients with the highest level of service. Its lawyers are responsive, proactive, and always willing to go the extra mile.’
Rising stars
I am co-head of the firm’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) sector in Lithuania and a member of our Corporate and M&A team, with in-depth specialisation in the fields of corporate, M&A and financing. As an idea-driven lawyer, I am passionate about project management and all aspects of working on a transaction, from exploring investment opportunities and leading various workstreams to advising on integration.
I am a senior associate specialising in the fields of IP, IT, telecommunications and data protection and also handle various commercial matters, especially in regulated business areas such as provision of gambling services or the tobacco trade. As a member of the firm’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) team, I am regularly involved in advising on launching novel services and developing new technologies.
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Laimonas Skibarka, Stasys Drazdauskas, Jonas Kiauleikis