Ellex Raidla

Agne Kisieliauskaite

Agnė Kisieliauskaitė is a associate partner specializing in European Union (EU) law and EU private international law. She has gained valuable experience in the fields of commercial litigation and EU law, including representation of clients in disputes concerning EU law issues at both a national and EU level. Agnė is also the author of numerous publications and is an active speaker in seminars on EU law topics. Agnė leads the Brexit Legal Hub team, which solves legal challenges following the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU. · European Union Law

Alla Kuznetsova

Associate Partner, Co‑Head of Transactions · Corporate / M&A

Anna Misneva

Senior associate · Banking & Finance

Antanas Butrimas

Antanas Butrimas is an Associate Partner with experience in tax disputes, tax optimization and a wide range of financial projects, from standard to complicated tax disputes and complex reorganisations aiming to optimize the tax burden. Antanas gained experience in tax disputes working with the State Tax Inspectorate under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Lithuania. Antanas’ experience covers consultation to large international industrial companies, banks, as well as businesses entering the Lithuanian market or expanding their services. He successfully represents clients’ interests in pre-trial and judicial institutions. Antanas’ professional strengths include understanding the client’s business needs and operations, as well as excellent communication skills in dealing with the local and international business community and Lithuanian authorities. · Tax

Anton Sigal

Partner · Dispute Resolution

Ants Nõmper

Partner · Intellectual Property

Antti Perli

Partner, Head of Transactions · Venture Capital

Arne Ots

Partner · Litigation

Arunas Petrauskas

Arūnas Petrauskas is a partner at Dispute Resolution practice and an attorney at law. He represents Lithuanian and foreign clients in criminal and civil cases and advises on criminal investigations related to criminal fraud and other financial and corruption offences. Arūnas also has significant experience advising clients on complex transactions and counselling on various legal matters. · Dispute Resolution

Audrius Petkevicius

Audrius Petkevičius is an expert who specializes in the areas of land and other real estate, territory planning, privatization and land taxes. He co-heads the Real Estate & Environment Practice at our law firm. Over more than 20 years he has accumulated exclusive competence in the areas of land use, privatization, taxation and evaluation, real estate cadastre and register, territory planning, infrastructure development and use, land-related relationships and conflicts, and environmental protection and construction. Audrius is well-known for his contribution in drafting amendments to laws and secondary legislation that made the territory planning system in Lithuania more transparent and helped to implement international standards in the field. Over the past years, Audrius has provided consultations on issues of banks, sports complexes of national importance, development of international business centres on the Lithuanian territory, and development of the national urban infrastructure. His extensive experience as a group leader is highly valued by clients planning the development of production objects and agricultural, forest, and large infrastructure objects, such as airports. · Real Estate

Azuolas Cekanavicius

Dr. Ąžuolas Čekanavičius is a partner, patent attorney and head of the Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Data. He has more than 20 years of experience in advising and representing clients in complex copyright, trademark, advertising and media disputes. In recent years, he has focused on computer software protection, cloud services, cybersecurity and other IT legal issues, and is the head of the firm’s unique Ellex Digital project. He is also a lecturer in civil and intellectual property law at Mykolas Romeris University and an author and co-author of scientific articles. He has actively participated in the drafting of laws in Lithuania: the Law on Public Information, the Law on Copyright and Related Rights. · Intellectual Property

Beata Plociņa

Senior Associate · Banking & Finance

Daiga Zivtina

Partner, Co-head of Dispute Resolution practice · Litigation

Dmitri Rozenblat

Counsel · Tax

Domantas Gudonis

Domantas Gudonis is a senior associate and an expert in fintech and banking & finance areas. His experience covers the establishment and licensing of financial institutions, and providing legal consultations related to payment services — requiring deep regulation knowledge and an understanding of IT processes. Specifically, one of the main practice areas – the licensing of financial institutions, covering activities of financial institutions regulation as well as payments law and matters related to innovative financial technologies implementation in financial institution activities. Domantas has significant experience in a wide range of complex financing projects. He is well experienced in secured lending, refinancing of loans, financial collateral agreements, dealing with derivatives and other financial measures. A separate field of his expertise is legal assistance to investment companies and funds, ranging from the establishment of collective investment undertakings (funds) to regulatory or compliance matters. · Banking & Finance

Dominykas Uzkurnys

Dominykas Užkurnys is an associate partner with experience in the areas of territory planning, construction and real estate law. He provides consultations to Lithuanian and foreign clients: real estate developers, designers, contractors, energy companies, etc. Dominykas also specialises in real estate development and regulatory issues and real estate transactions. · Real Estate

Dovile Greblikiene

Dovilė Greblikienė is a partner with experience across a wide range of complex energy sector projects, including for the electricity and gas sectors (production, TSO/DSO, supply, LNG), heat/hot water sector, oil sector, nuclear energy law and hydrocarbons. Her experience covers in-depth knowledge of energy pricing and tariff regulation, trade-in energy and energy sources, incorporation of EU energy law, national legislation, energy regulation, market organization and liberalization. Dovilė has proven experience in legal representation in energy cases in national and arbitration courts as well as in regulatory institutions. She also specializes in other regulated industries including transport and telecoms, and their tariff regulation and liberalisation. · Energy

Dovile Stancikaite

Dovilė Stančikaitė is a partner with experience in providing legal services in complex real estate lease and acquisition projects. Her competence covers complex real estate transactions, such as built-to-suit leases, real estate acquisition, sales, transfer and construction, and other infrastructure development projects. Dovilė also provides consultations to the largest Lithuanian shopping and business centres and service companies on real estate management issues. Dovilė’s expertise also covers representing clients in legal commercial disputes related to real estate. · Real Estate

Eduards Dzintars

Senior Counsel, Head of Tax practice · Tax

Edvijs Zandars

Associate Partner · Intellectual Property

Edvinas Beikauskas

Edvinas Beikauskas is an associate partner with experience in energy and utilities sector regulation. His experience covers knowledge of national and EU regulatory and legal practices primarily in electricity, renewable energy, trade and commercial agreements, product-specific regulation, labelling, product liability and other matters. He has also valuable experience in strategic public and private capital energy projects as well as good knowledge of the regulation of renewable energy promotion at a theoretical and practical level. Among his professional strengths is a profound knowledge of technical and business management processes of the energy sector. · Energy & Utilities

Egidijus Baranauskas

Dr Egidijus Baranauskas is a partner and former judge for the Civil Division of the Supreme Court of Lithuania. While working for the Supreme Court of Lithuania, he participated in various public procurement, financial sector and real estate proceedings. Egidijus has taught for 15 years at Mykolas Romeris University and was a professor in the Business Law Department. Egidijus works on large-scale projects that have great importance in formulating the Lithuanian courts’ practice. He is a recommended arbitrator at the Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration (VCCA). · Litigation

Egle Neverbickiene

Eglė Neverbickienė is an associate partner, a well-known expert of finance law having over 16 years of experience in the field, with a focus on syndicated, complex multi-layered secured lending financing (including intercreditor agreements), various lending and financing transactions, project finance, general banking advice. · Banking & Finance

Egle Radvilaite

Ms. Eglė Radvilaitė is a senior associate in Banking & Finance, Financial services regulatory areas. She is acknowledged as a future banking and finance expert with extremely deep professional insight in assisting clients in structuring and executing of sophisticated and complex transactions in capital markets and other types of financing. · Banking & Finance

Enrika Tamašauskaitė

Enrika Tamašauskaitė is an associate partner focusing on transaction advisory and corporate law. With over 10 years of experience in financing transactions, including routine and secured lending as well as loan portfolio sales, she has a proven track record of navigating complex financial landscapes, delivering successful outcomes, and developing robust financial structures tailored to clients’ needs. Enrika also has in-depth expertise in specifically aviation asset finance, advising clients on licensing, aircraft acquisition, financing and leasing, and aviation-specific litigation, covering all key aspects of the industry. · Corporate / M&A

Ermo Kosk

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Filips Kļaviņš

Senior Partner · Corporate / M&A

Gabriele Vazniokaite

Gabrielė Vazniokaitė is a associate partner with experience in real estate development projects, including administrative and commercial buildings, as well as infrastructure objects. In recent years, Gabrielė has specialized in the legal process of the development of renewable energy, especially wind farms and their parks. In her practice, Gabrielė coordinates the entire legal process: territorial planning and land use matters, agreements, coordination of construction process, land use, removal of construction defects, etc., including representation of clients in various legal disputes. Among her professional strengths are the coordination of the process and drafting documentation in complex processes of real estate development, an in-depth understanding of the business operations and needs of the client, as well as excellent negotiation skills. · Real Estate

Gerda Liik

Counsel · Corporate / M&A

Gerli Kivisoo

Partner · Banking & Finance

Giedre Aukstuoliene

Giedre Aukštuolienė is a partner, who has wide experience in representing clients in complex, high-profile disputes across a wide range of sectors, including energy, infrastructure and IT before the state courts and arbitral tribunals. Giedre has served as counsel in a commercial arbitration under various arbitration rules, including UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, SCC, and VCCA (Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration). She also has substantial experience in investment arbitration and has successfully represented the Republic of Lithuania in several investment arbitration proceedings. · International Arbitration

Giedrius Stasevicius

Giedrius Stasevičius is a partner with experience across a wide range of complex financing projects, including secured lending, mezzanine and subordinated lending, loan syndications, securitization, and the issuance of mortgage and corporate bonds. His experience in banking covers most business processes, including licensing, regulatory and reporting, funding, lending and other financial operations, regulation of winding-up and restructuring options of banks. · Banking & Finance

Gintaras Balcius

Gintaras Balčius is Co-Head of Tax practice at Ellex in Lithuania. A highly experienced tax consultant and economist has been advising companies and individuals on tax matters for almost 30 years. Various legal directories and the market rate Gintaras as a top professional capable to offer timely and far-reaching solutions to clients. Having exceptional knowledge of tax law requirements and extensive know-how he can identify current and potential tax risks in the company and offer the most effective ways to reduce those risks. Gintaras consults international and local clients on tax planning, indirect taxation, transfer pricing and transactional tax structuring matters. His professional strengths are a swift insight in the client’s interests and business needs and excellent communication skills in dealing with the Lithuanian tax administrator. · Tax

Grete-Kai Teeäär

Senior Associate · Litigation

Hanna Pahk

Counsel · Employment

Helen Ratso

Senior Associate · Banking & Finance

Ieva Dosinaite

Ieva Dosinaitė is a partner who during her professional career has represented and advised on complex financial transactions and regulatory and capital markets related issues for the following: banking and financial institutions, insurance companies, trading companies, inter alia EBRD, EIB, Lietuvos Energija (incl. green bonds issue), Maxima Grupė (incl. first bond issue), Vilniaus prekyba, Lithuanian Airports, Lithuanian post as well as international Visa, PayRay, Sollo and others. She has significant experience in managing pan-Baltic legal projects and is noted for solving legal issues with international institutions. In 2019, Ieva was highly recognized in the International Bar Association (IBA), where she was appointed to an officer of the Banking Law Committee and the Vice-Chair of IBA Structured Finance Subcommittee. · Banking & Finance

Ilga Gudrenika-Krebs

Partner · Real Estate

Ilona Andriusiene

Ilona Andriušienė is an expert, attorney at law specialising in real estate development, construction, and land use. She has extensive experience in the development of various administrative, industrial, and commercial real estate objects (factories, shopping and business centres, medical institutions, renewable energy, infrastructure objects, etc.). She also advises clients on complicated and complex issues of drafting and execution of construction contracts. Ilona has extensive experience in commercial lease transactions. She has advised one of the largest groups of companies in Lithuania on the management and development of shopping and business centres. Ilona also represents clients in real estate disputes. · Real Estate

Inese Freivalde

Inese Freivalde is a senior associate with experience working as a lawyer in Latvia’s largest law firms. During the last 7 years, Inese’s main professional focus has been on construction and real estate matters. Additional specialization includes general commercial law, administrative law, and immigration (residence permit) matters. Daily activities include advising Latvian and international companies on real estate transactions, real estate due diligence projects, development of real estate projects, and advising real estate developers on various construction-related matters: construction contracts, various matters related to issuance and registration of building permits, registration of construction permits, and certification of construction specialists. · Real Estate

Inita Jurka

Partner · Real Estate

Ints Skaldis

Senior Associate · Employment

Irina Kostina

Associate Partner Head of Employment law practice · Employment

Ivars Pommers

Partner, Head of Real Estate practice · Real Estate

Iveta Ceple

Senior Counsel · Corporate / M&A

Jaanus Ikla

Counsel · Corporate / M&A

Jaunius Gumbis

Dr. Jaunius Gumbis is a partner, with almost 30 years, he has worked extensively with various corporate clients, the largest foreign investors in the Baltic States, and major local and international businesses representing them before courts and competent national authorities in diverse cases, including in relation to regulatory issues. His main professional strengths are excellent leadership and motivation skills, an understanding of the business operations and business needs of the client as well as proved brilliant communication with international and local enterprises, their in-house and external counsels and public authorities of Lithuania. Dr. Jaunius Gumbis is also an associate professor of philosophy of law and legal reasoning at Vilnius University. · Regulatory

Julija Nikitaraviciene

Julija Nikitaravičienė is an associate partner experienced in a wide range of complex real estate transactions, including legal due diligence, acquisition, sale and transfer of real estate. Julija has extensive experience in complex real estate tenancy transactions (shopping and business centres, logistics terminals) and real estate management, financing and refinancing projects. Julija’s successfully implemented transactions include consultations to clients in acquisition or tenancy transactions of the business centres 3BURĖS, GO9 and Quadrum, and consultations to the international telecommunications company on the share sale. Her competence to work with the international investors’ community is strengthened by the successful completion of the transactions in 2019 on the lease of Kaunas office of the subsidiary of the US company No Magic Inc. and the EUR 40.5 million secured refinancing agreement of Norwegian real estate investment company EECP at bank Luminor. · Real Estate

Jurgita Samrickiene

Jurgita is an associate partner whose practice concentrates on commercial dispute resolution. As an attorney at law Jurgita has extensive experience of representing and advising clients in complex shareholder disputes, litigation concerning the civil liability of corporate management bodies, as well as proceedings related to insolvency of legal entities. Jurgita has also built significant experience in helping clients handle disputes arising from construction and insurance matters as well as in administrative litigation. In her practice, Jurgita combines profound legal expertise and attention to details with a strategic approach to case management. This enables her to deliver practical and effective solutions tailored to each client’s needs. Her professional experience includes representing clients before courts of all instances, in arbitration proceedings, negotiation and mediation. · Litigation

Jurgita Ziausyte

Jurgita Žiaušytė is a senior associate experienced in the field of banking and finance law. Her specialization includes advising clients on the establishment and licensing of financial institutions. Jurgita also works on regulatory issues and ensures effective internal controls, mainly anti-money laundering (AML) and international sanctions regulations. Jurgita is also experienced in representing clients’ interests in cooperation with supervisory authorities, primarily the Bank of Lithuania, advises the clients during supervisory inspections, assists them with obtaining relevant authorisations and approvals, prepares documents in complaints’ handling proceedings. · Banking & Finance

Kairi Kilgi

Senior Associate · Intellectual Property

Kaisa Jakobsoo

Senior Associate · Real Estate

Kamile Skrupskyte

Kamilė Skrupskytė is a senior associate and specialises in labour and employment law. The area of activity of the lawyer includes regular consulting of international and Lithuanian companies, also individuals, on various labour law issues. Kamilė also takes part in the preparation of internal documents of companies, and other documents related to employment legal relations, and the preparation of procedural documents representing the interests of clients in labour disputes. · Labour & Employment

Karin Tartu

Senior Associate · Corporate / M&A

Karolis Kačerauskas

Dr Karolis Kačerauskas is a partner with extensive experience in complex legal projects in state aid, competition, public procurement and public-private partnership areas. Karolis continuously provides consultations to clients of different profiles and sectors. His expertise in public procurement matters is valued by both contracting authorities and suppliers involved in public procurement. Among his professional strengths are expeditious coordination of complicated transactions and disputes, understanding of clients’ complex business operations and business needs, and presentation of complex issues in a simple way. Karolis demonstrates excellent communication and negotiation skills in dealing with international and local companies and Lithuanian authorities. · State Aid

Kevin Gerretz

Counsel, Head of Financial Regulatory · Banking & Finance

Liga Merwin

Managing Partner, Head of EU & Competition practice · Competition/Antitrust

Liis Könn

Partner, Head of Disputes · Litigation

Liisbeth Eero (Lillo)

Senior Associate · Corporate / M&A

Mari Must

Counsel, Head of Intellectual Property · Intellectual Property