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Tomas Kontautas

Partner and Head of the Finance & Insurance in Lithuania. Although my passion is insurance law, over the years I have also developed a strong banking regulatory profile while dealing with complex regulatory matters of traditional financial market players and the fintech industry. The regulatory world is dynamic, always related to the bigger picture – transactions, competition law, disputes, government relations. I am happy to navigate clients through all these fields. · Sorainen

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About

Tomas Kontautas is Partner and Head of the Finance & Insurance in Lithuania at Sorainen, specializing in insurance law and banking regulatory matters with experience in the fintech sector. He advises on cross-border insurance M&A, regulatory compliance, transactions, competition issues and disputes, and has a background at the financial regulator and a long-standing academic role at Vilnius University.

Practice areas

InsuranceBanking & FinanceRegulatory & ComplianceFintechCorporate / M&ACompetition / AntitrustLitigation

Office

Lithuania

Sorainen · Partner and Head of the Finance & Insurance in Lithuania. Although my passion is insurance law, over the years I have also developed a strong banking regulatory profile while dealing with complex regulatory matters of traditional financial market players and the fintech industry. The regulatory world is dynamic, always related to the bigger picture – transactions, competition law, disputes, government relations. I am happy to navigate clients through all these fields.

Lithuania

Expertise

Insurance law and Insurance M&AInsurance disputes and large claims (D&O, air crashes)Banking regulatory mattersFintech and financial services regulationRegulatory policy and government relationsProject and structured financing (e.g. LNG terminal)Securities depositories and market infrastructure

Education

  • University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (visiting scholar)
  • University of Sassari, Italy (visiting scholar)
  • Yeditepe University, Turkey (visiting scholar)
  • University of Palermo, Italy (visiting scholar)
  • Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Switzerland (visiting scholar)
  • Vilnius University, Lithuania (Dr of Social Sciences, Law)
  • Hamburg University, Germany, and Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands (European Master in Law and Economics)
  • Vilnius University, Lithuania (MA in Law)

Admissions

  • Lithuanian Bar Association

Languages

LithuanianEnglishRussian