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Aurelija Balčiūnė

Aurelija Balčiūnė is a Specialist Counsel at the Banking and Finance Practice Group. During her legal practice, Aurelija has counselled international and local banks and companies on various regulatory and compliance matters, participated in the most renown market deals and M&A transactions, acquisition of large-scale debt portfolios and structured financing transactions.

Julija Beldeninovienė

Julija Beldeninovienė is a Managing Associate, Attorney-at-Law having over 12 years of experience in IP, IT, Pharmaceutical law and related litigation. She counsels clients through various types of IP-related contract negotiations, including settlement agreements, licenses, IP assignment and other agreements. Her practice also involves pre-litigation strategy and all aspects of litigation and dispute resolution relating to patents, SPCs, trademarks, copyrights, designs, and confidential information. Julija has acted in numerous cases related to IP and unfair competition, including the first pharmaceutical patent invalidation and patent enforcement disputes in Lithuania.

Martynas Bielskis

Martynas Bielskis is an Associate in the Tax Practice Group at COBALT Lithuania. He has experience working in a specialized tax consulting firm and in the tax department of an international audit company.

Mindaugas Bliuvas

Mindaugas Bliuvas is a Partner and Head of the Prevention and Criminal Law Practice Group at COBALT Lithuania. M. Bliuvas has experience in the fields of criminal, criminal procedure, administrative and penitentiary law as well as prevention and AML. The lawyer has been successfully representing and defending the interests of clients in resonant cases as well as in complex cases with international elements.

Manvydas Borusas

Manvydas Borusas is a Senior Associate of EU and Competition Practice Group. He has extensive experience in consulting local and internation companies on various competition law matters and also representing such companies in civil and administrative cases.

Akvilė Bosaitė

Akvilė Bosaitė is a Partner and Co-Head of the Banking and Finance Practice Group. She has specialised in banking, finance, investment funds, project financing, restructuring of financing, securities and M&A for over fourteen years. Akvilė Bosaitė is a recommended expert in finance law by international law firm directories.

Elijus Burgis is a Partner and Head of the firm’s Corporate Transactions Department. During the years of his practice Mr Burgis has been an adviser in a number of the largest M&A transactions and financing projects in Lithuania and has also advised clients on various matters related to corporate, banking and finance, securities and competition law.

Rokas Daugėla is a partner and Head of the Tax Practice Group. Rokas is specialising in the area of Tax, where he has over 10 years of experience in advising local and international clients on Lithuanian and cross-border taxation and transfer pricing issues. Rokas holds an LLM in International Tax Law and has gained valuable experience in International tax at a leading Dutch law firm Loyens & Loeff. Rokas is recommended as a leading tax practitioneer in Lithuania by Tax Directors Handbook and the Legal 500.

Dalia Foigt-Norvaišienė

Dr Dalia Foigt-Norvaišienė is a Specialist Councel at the Employment Law Practice Group at COBALT Lithuania. She has assisted numerous local and international clients upon choosing the best solution for establishing a business in Lithuania and upon setting up and operating these businesses including but not limited to employment matters.

Vydmantas Grigoravičius

Vydmantas Grigoravičius is an Partner with more than 16 years of experience in the Private and Public Real Estate Management and Leasing, Privatization, Construction law and Disputes Resolution. Mr Grigoravičius advises and represents clients in areas of real estate, state and municipal property management, its use and disposal and also privatization law.

Marius Inta is a Partner and Head of the Commercial Disputes Practice Group at COBALT Lithuania. He has over 17 years’ experience in Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management and focuses his practice on insurance disputes, represents clients in litigation matters involving compensation of damages, competition law and intellectual property law violations. Marius is a litigation lawyer with a long track record of acting for clients in courts of general jurisdiction and administrative courts and alternative dispute resolution (negotiation, arbitration, mediation).

Attorney at Law Nerijus Jurkus is a Managing Associate at COBALT Lithuania, practicing law within the Environment, Transport and Regulatory Practice Group. Nerijus brings over 20 years of practical experience to provide profound legal advice. Nerijus Jurkus has successfully represented transport and logistics companies in a diverse array of complex civil and administrative disputes, provided counsel on tax, customs, and customs procedures.

Artūras Kojala

Artūras Kojala is a Partner in the Real Estate and Infrastructure Department. Mr Kojala has advised major local and international companies.

Žilvinas Kvietkus

Žilvinas Kvietkus is a Partner at COBALT Lithuania and Head of Corporate Transactions Department.During more than 20 years legal practice Žilvinas Kvietkus has advised on a wide range of pharmaceutical work and possesses extensive experience in the Lithuanian and EU pharmaceutical sector. Mr Kvietkus has acted for numerous clients in many significant cases related to copyrights, trademarks and patents, in addition he has provided extensive counselling in M&A transactions involving pharmaceutical, telecoms and other regulated sectors. Other specialisations include labour and commercial laws.

Simona Liuimienė

Simona Liuimienė is a Managing Associate, specializing in all aspects of competition law, including state aid, commercial relationships between retailers and suppliers, regulated competition as well as litigation. Her experience of 15 years includes working at the Lithuanian Competition Council, the European Commission, as well as international consulting company and international law firm.

Milda Markevičiūtė

Dr Milda Markevičiūtė is Associate Partner and chairs the Administrative and Business Disputes Practice Group at COBALT Lithuania. Dr Milda Markevičiūtė has experience both handling high-profile disputes that require an integrated and unconventional approach to dispute resolution and dealing with sophisticated shareholder, energy sector, construction, and administrative disputes.

Paulius Markovas

Dr Paulius Markovas is a Partner with more than 25 years of experience. Paulius consults and advises clients developing renewable energy projects. Represents clients’ interests in disputes related to the development of renewable energy, in state and local government institutions, supervises regulatory and problematic aspects of project development.

Rasa Mikutienė

Rasa Mikutiene is a Specialist Counsel at COBALT Lithuania. She specialises in tax law and has over ten years of experience in consulting clients on a wide range of direct and indirect tax matters. Rasa‘s main area of competence is value added tax, including the taxation of real estate transactions, finance and insurance products, cross-border supply chains and many others.

Irmantas Norkus

Dr Irmantas Norkus is the Managing Partner of COBALT Lithuania. During his career Dr Norkus has led numerous landmark cross-border and domestic transactions and projects and has handled some of the most complex antitrust matters of recent times. He has represented a broad range of high-profile corporate clients, investment funds, issuers, financial institutions and institutional investors.

Žygimantas Pacevičius

Žygimantas Pacevičius is a Partner in the firm’s Dispute Resolution team. Mr Pacevičius is actively involved in disputes in insurance and finance, management liability, insolvency, and the media. During 20 years of his legal practice, Žygimantas Pacevičius has advised and represented clients in many disputes related to various areas of law.

Dr Juozas Rimas is a Partner and the Head of the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Practice Group at COBALT Lithuania.Dr Rimas has led over 30 M&A projects where he was in charge of structuring, due diligence, negotiations and general project management, as well as over 10 projects of corporate restructuring (including business transfer, merger and spin-off procedures).

Justinas Šileika

Justinas Šileika is a Managing Associate at COBALT Lithuania. He specialises in the fields of EU & Competition and Corporate Law. In his legal practice he has consulted numerous local and international clients on a wide range of legal issues.

Rimantas Simaitis

Professor Dr Rimantas Simaitis is Partner and Head of the Dispute Resolution Department. Professor Dr Simaitis holds a Doctor’s degree of Social Sciences (Law) from Vilnius University, Lithuania. He is an Associated Professor at Vilnius University faculty of Law, recommended arbitrator at Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration and has been designated to the ICSID Panel of Conciliators by the Lithuanian Government. He has been, and remains, an active member and/or head of various working groups formed by the Ministry of Justice, the Judicial Council and the Parliament of Lithuania, and the Council of Europe.

Aušrys Šliavas

Aušrys Šliavas is a Specialist Counsel and has been involved in numerous complex assignments requiring creative and unconventional solutions.

Deividas Soloveičik

Dr Deividas Soloveičik is a Partner and Head of Public Procurement practice at COBALT Lithuania. He represents clients before national courts at all instances and arbitral institutions in civil and administrative cases, provides legal advice to Lithuanian and foreign private clients and contracting authorities, including the Commission of the European Union, on the legal aspects of public procurement and pre-commercial procurement.

Eglė Stražnickienė

Eglė Stražnickienė is a Senior Associate practising in the Employment Law Practice Group. Eglė advises local and international clients on non-competition of employees, protection of confidential information, transfer of employees and other labour law questions, and provides assistance to clients in large-scale projects and international transactions.

Eva Suduiko is a Partner and Co-Head in the Banking and Finance Practice Group. She has specialised in banking, finance, capital markets and M&A for over twelve years. During her legal practice, Eva Suduiko has advised clients in a number of M&A transactions, international financing and security arrangements. She constantly advises both local and foreign clients on various regulatory matters, including cross-border provision of services, issue of securities and other capital and financial markets related projects.

Jovita Valatkaitė

Jovita Valatkaitė has over 9 years’ experience of legal practice in the fields of Employment and Corporate law. Apart from advising on general employment law matters, Jovita provides advice on non-competition of employees, protection of confidential information as well as the EU social security system. She also has extensive experience in migration matters, including residence permits, work permits, secondments and transfers of employees.

Renata Vasiliauskienė

Renata Vasiliauskienė is a Senior Associate in IP & IT and Regulatory Law practice group in COBALT and has over 12 years of legal experience. Her main expertise areas include regulatory compliance (including electronic communications and cybersecurity), data protection and consumer protection (including OMNIBUS and content management pursuant to DSA).

Vytautas Vosylius

Vytautas Vosylius is a Senior Associate in the Banking and Finance Practice Group. Vytautas specializes in the field of banking and finance, private and venture capital and financial services regulatory. He consults Lithuanian and international clients in financing and security transactions as well as regarding financial services regulatory compliance matters, such as regulation of consumer credit, funds, management companies and payment services, implementation of requirements of prevention of money laundering and others.

Rasa Zaščiurinskaitė

Rasa Zaščiurinskaitė is a Partner and Head of the Competition Practice Group at COBALT Lithuania. For over 16 years, she has concentrated her practice in competition law and has substantial experience in Energy, Pharmacy, Aviation and other regulated areas of law. She has also gained valuable knowledge of EU competition law through attendance of numerous international and national conferences. Rasa also delivers presentations at local and international EU law conferences and has been contributing articles on EU competition law to various publications.

Juras Žymančius

Juras Žymančius is a Senior Associate, practising in the IP & IT and Regulatory Practice Group and working with data protection.