Commercial, corporate and M&A in Lithuania

‘Cobalt is a market leader in the Baltics (full service but with a particular focus on transactional work).’

‘Pro-business approach and commercial awareness at Cobalt are on a very high level since the beginning of the project (quotation and understanding of the background) through its implementation (structuring transaction in line with client’s business expectations) to its completion (corporate integration aimed at reaching ultimate business aim).’

‘We worked only with partner Juozas Rimas. He did an excellent job of working with the clients in parallel to manage their expectations regarding the scope, pricing, and overall project management. We are looking forward to having more joint projects (his commercial awareness adds efficiency to joint projects, especially in a cross-border context).’

‘Team has the advantage of having the widest composition of experts – new generation partners having good understanding about IT markets, together with the senior partners who gained valuable knowledge on strategic deals. For our IT business it is crucial for advisors to understand our language. The Ellex team certainly does.’

‘Ruta Armone was always quick to reach when needed, always understanding well the question and proactively suggesting the solution.’

‘Ellex is a clear legal market leader. M&A team is the largest in Lithuania and one of the big advantages of Ellex is that they develop unique and deep specializations which is needed for leadership in particular field. Ellex team is always number one choice in the vast majority of the largest and most difficult of our projects. One of the newest innovations Ellex has made, which is helping to work more comfortable, is their new document management system.’

‘The team has extremely good specialists and exceptional competencies. Compared to other firms, I would say Ellex is the absolute number one in Lithuania. We have been cooperating for a number of years and are not considering any changes. We give them the most important and the most complex projects and cases and are confident they will solve them in the highest possible way.’

‘Ellex always goes hand in hand with innovation. One of the recent examples is their newly implemented document management system, where you may work on the document online at the same time with the lawyers and even make changes on it.’

‘The whole corporate team has an exceptional competency. The managing partner Rolandas Valiunas is unparalleled in strategic matters and his partner Paulius Gruodis is the highest level lawyer in corporate matters.’

‘We work with TGS on various corporate matters. What stands out is the direct and continuous attention of the partners to our matters. We know them as leading experts in commercial agreements, labour and M&A matters. We like the response time and practical advice, as well as willingness to learn about our business.’

‘We work with Mindaugas Civilka, whom we know as a leading expert on corporate, commercial and TMT matters. Mindaugas keeps track on new developments and is an opinion leader in technology. Marius Matonis is our key contact for M&A matters and is a leading expert in the area.’

‘TGS Baltic team was able to manage and solve all issues with high proficiency.’

‘Partner Agnius Pilipavicius was the leading lawyer from TGS preparing strategy in order to solve our issue. His exceptional experience in shareholders disputes psychology and in deep knowledge of various methods usually used in such disputes was very useful. Agnius’ advices always were business and result oriented.’

‘TGS partner Agnius Pilipavicius is very experienced in corporate law and his advice helps us to find out of the box solutions for most corporate and corporate governance issues we are facing. We appreciate not only legal advice, but understanding of management principle, company’s psychology and business oriented approach.’

‘TGS team is well staffed, they have lawyers specialising in all the fields we needed – corporate, data protection, general commercial issues, tax issues and specific IT / intellectual property related issues. I was happy with the responsivity of TGS’ team and their expertise and knowledge about our industry.’

‘TGS works like my internal team and I appreciate that.‘

‘Our main contact in TGS is partner Agnius Pilipavicius. He has very good expertise in corporate law. Agnius shares his knowledge openly and always provides consultations which are business oriented.’

‘The team is highly competent, hands-on, delivering on time and with the highest quality.’

‘Povilas Žukauskas – truly great lawyer with deep market and juridical knowledge, bringing out-of-box suggestions and delivering great results.’

‘The team with its lead Indre Jonaityte-Grice ahead is exceptional with work quality and fast delivery, conceptual view and business orientated solutions; the team has well diversified knowledge of main fields and can provide fast and trusted advice on all commercial, tax and legal questions.’

‘Indre Jonaityte-Grice is exceptional with work quality and fast delivery, conceptual view and business orientated solutions.’

‘They are dashing, energetic team with a lot of potential. Skillful and experienced individuals.’

‘Povilas Žukauskas has good knowledge of M&A matters. He is experienced and solid in his field of work. Always trying to find the best possible solutions. He has great communication and analytical skills.’

‘Key team’s strengths are reliability and competence. WALLESS always helps us to create strategies for our business development that are both actionable and compliant with our goals. For example, this year we worked with WALLESS Commercial team while launching our new business platform (car lease via mobile app). WALLESS team offered irreplaceable support to us and their communication was very attentive. We are very happy that our partnership allowed us to focus on daily legal issues while WALLESS took this matter into their hands and mastered it. We believe that the success of the project was also related to the fact, that all questions (from corporate to commercial and competition) were curated by one key person responsible for the effective organization of the project and risk management of legal issues in overlapping areas’

‘In general, I believe Walless is the most innovative, flexible and diverse team among Tier 1 legal firms in Lithuania.

‘What I exceptionally value is the attitude of Walless lawyers, who are totally oriented towards the result (and not the process). That benefits the client, as we receive faster result, better quality, and lower bills.’

‘Dovile Burgiene – one of the most competent M&A and corporate lawyers I’ve ever worked with. She perfectly knows how to drive the process and is extremely useful in tough negotiations, as she always possess deal-closing, not deal-breaking attitude.

‘Unique technical capability of the team. I found that staff are extremely well trained. Highly innovative (e. g. innovative value billing, strong use of technology in particular during the pandemic). They  always pay high attention to us, and are extremely collaborative and proactive. What I like most  is their great business understanding!’

‘Jonas Saladzius is a highly experienced business lawyer, with great commercial and M&A skills.  He is extremely well connected in the business community.’

 ‘All team members are highly professional having strong technical skills and extremely collaborative.‘