Corporate and M&A

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Why us?

How can we help?

Experience highlights

Recognition

International, regional, and local clients rely on Motieka & Audzevicius’s Corporate and M&A team for assistance with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, merger control, taxation, venture-capital, private-equity, and other important business-law matters.

We are valued for our proactivity, swiftness, accessibility, and individualized attention, and for our ability to find creative solutions during negotiations and provide simple advice on complex processes.

We never lower the quality of our services and we work hard to create long-term relationships with our clients. As a result, many large and widely respected enterprises come back to us every time important questions arise and when their businesses are in critical need of legal assistance.

Our lawyers have extensive experience working with businesses in various sectors, and in providing the most appropriate solutions to the situation at hand – never overpromising or under-delivering.

Four reasons to choose us:

  • A Specialized Team. Our experts know every inch of the transaction process. Motieka & Audzevicius’s team consists of specialists in different areas of corporate law, allowing us to implement any project.
  • Expert in Complex Transactions. In the last few years alone, our team has worked on a number of the most important domestic and international transactions, including being the lead lawyers of Linas Agro Group in its acquisition of shares in Kauno Grūdai, advising the majority shareholder of Vilniaus prekyba on its buy-out of shares of a minority shareholder, representing in the investments into Hostinger, and representing the founders as well as leading the sale of Mailerlite.
  • International Recognition. For many years the knowledge and experience of our transactional team as a whole, and its individual members, have been recognised by international ranking services such as Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, CEE Legal Matters, and Mergermarket.
  • Top-Level Education. Our team encourages globalisation and constantly seeks inspiration and knowledge from the world’s top universities. Lawyers on the team have graduated from Duke University, the Columbia Business School, the London Business School, Royal College (London), the University of London, and many other widely recognized institutions of higher learning. Our status as the number-one choice of the largest and most widely recognised domestic and international clients inspires us to improve and gives us an experience-based advantage in providing legal services.

We know our clients’ business and we identify with their vision and goals. This allows us to create the most convenient transaction architecture and represent them effectively in negotiations. Instead of quick and basic solutions, we offer specific long-term solutions that can withstand future challenges.

Our services:

  • Project Administration. We create added value beyond the basic provision of legal services. We manage projects from their very first steps and accompany our clients throughout each step of a project to secure their interests, including by communicating on their behalf with third parties, external advisors, state institutions, and other businesses.
  • Business Consulting. The most important thing for us is to create value for our clients. We first aim to understand our clients’ needs and determine the most effective way to achieve their goals. We play chess while others play checkers.
  • Execution of Transactions. We provide all necessary legal services in transactions, including preparing the structure of the deal, advising on tax issues, participating in negotiations, performing legal due diligence, and preparing transaction documentation. We hear, understand, assess, and achieve our clients’ expectations. Our goal is to foresee potential risks, and to understand what is required and what is not to successfully implement the transaction.
  • Joint Activities. We provide comprehensive legal assistance in negotiating, structuring, and concluding joint ventures.
  • Merger Control. We are different from other legal-service providers in the merger-control market, as merger notifications with the Competition Council and its subsequent processes are handled by our Transactions team instead of by lawyers specializing in the regulatory sector, which allows us to take advantage of our unique understanding of our client’s business, the specifics of transactions, and the importance of obtaining merger clearance. Our many years of high-level experience gives us the unique ability to assess as early as possible whether a specific transaction will require merger clearance from the Competition Council, how long the process will take, and what the relevant risks are likely to be.
  • Private-Equity Investments. We represent investors, investment funds, lenders, and management companies at all stages of private-equity investment, including negotiation, transaction structuring, legal due diligence, and preparation of investment documentation, ensuring the successful completion of the investment.
  • Venture-Capital Investments. We regularly assist with the most important venture-capital investments in the market. We offer service packages for venture-capital investors and entrepreneurs starting new businesses and start-ups seeking to attract external venture capital. We prepare the investment structures and necessary shareholders’ agreements, provide advice on the implementation and use of investments and employee options, and perform legal due diligence.
  • Capital Markets. We regularly advise clients on local and cross-border capital-accumulation transactions. We assist issuers, financiers, consultants, and investors on issues related to the preparation and implementation of initial public securities, debts, and official offers.
  • General Commercial Advice. We help clients with a variety of commercial transactions, regardless of their size or importance. We advise on complex and day-to-day issues related to corporate law and on the conclusion of national and international agreements, as well as evaluating whether those agreements comply with the requirements of competition law and working to minimize legal risks during these processes.
  • Tax Strategies. Tax structuring is a key step in almost every transaction and investment, and our skill in the field allows us to create added value and reduce our clients’ financial risk.
  • Modern Business. We keep pace with today’s trends and with legal developments relevant to start-up businesses. Our lawyers are well-versed in the cryptocurrency, NFT, and meta-universe fields – in fact, many of them invest in them personally, and are thus always looking for new opportunities to create added value for themselves and their clients.
Rokas Jankus

Advised Skycop in the acquisition of 100% of shares in Estonian company Lennuabi

12 February 2024
Edvinas Lenkauskas, Rokas Jankus

Sale of shares in e-commerce company trading jewellery, crystals and other beauty products

28 September 2023
Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Aivaras Grigas

Represented a client in successful addition to its operational car-wash facilities portfolio

31 August 2023
Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Aivaras Grigas

Represented a client in successful acquisition of real estate holding company

31 August 2023
Rokas Jankus, Laurynas Ramonas

Solar SaaS leader PVcase acquires Anderson Optimization, streamlining solar project design

23 June 2023
Rokas Jankus, Darius Amšiejus

Represented the Netherlands-based investment group on the sale of shares of an e-money institution

8 June 2023
Rokas Jankus

Advised Vet Ventures Europe on its strategic investment into the oldest veterinary clinic in Vilnius

2 June 2023
Giedrius Kolesnikovas

Represented the client on acquisition of shares in Vilniaus Prekyba group

29 March 2023
Rokas Jankus, Laurynas Ramonas

Successful cooperation with rising star of EV charging solutions – Inbalance Grid

7 March 2023
Rokas Jankus, Aivaras Grigas

Finnish Titanium Fund buys Avia Solutions Group’s office building

17 February 2023
Rokas Jankus, Laurynas Ramonas

In Balance Grid has formed a joint venture with Baltic private multi-asset alternative investment firm

30 January 2023
Aivaras Grigas, Rokas Jankus

Represented a real estate company in the transaction selling shopping center in Klaipėda

14 December 2022
Giedrius Kolesnikovas

Advised Žabolis Partners on its strategic acquisition in the digital education industry

27 October 2022
Laurynas Ramonas

Assisted Linas Agro Group in selling assets and exiting Russian market

29 August 2022
Rokas Jankus

Advised founder and minority shareholder of Ecso on successful exit

19 August 2022
Rokas Jankus

Advised founders of vertical farming business in raising capital

28 June 2022
Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Rokas Jankus

Represented a Lithuanian startup MailerLite in selling 100%  of shares to the Polish company

27 April 2022
Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Laurynas Ramonas

BaltCap Growth Fund received merger clearance for its strategic investment into Vet Ventures

5 April 2022
Rokas Jankus

Represented a real estate company in the transaction selling shopping center located in Vilnius

4 April 2022
Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Laurynas Ramonas

Marius Jakulis Jason controlled AAA Capital has received merger clearance to acquire Medicinos bankas

23 March 2022

Chambers and Partners

2024

It is a really good team. The lawyers are very energetic and develop a really good understanding with the client. They are really good at meeting deadlines, looking at the client's needs and not overcomplicating the process with analysis. They are really agile.

Legal 500

2023

This team seems to enjoy the process, not only the result. Accordingly, they are flexible, proactive, well-organized and good project managers, especially when dealing with a few jurisdictions at a time. In our recent major transaction, their involvement in negotiations was one of the key factors why the deal was completed. Having strong advisors gives an additional boost of confidence for us as clients.

Chambers and Partners

2023

The Motieka & Audzevičius team always finds satisfying solutions even in the most complex and sophisticated matters.

Legal 500

2022

The well-respected team, offering a variety of legal services so that you can get a legal opinion on different kind of topics in one place.

Legal 500

2022

We love Motieka’s “skin in the game” approach, as their investment fund is one of our early investors, allowing us to trust that they are highly motivated to achieve the best results in providing services to us, as it directly affects themselves.

Legal 500

2022

Flexible on tasks, available with even short notice, always trying to help and think broader.

Chambers and Partners

2022

They seem to be sharp. The firm comes over as professional, business-oriented and, I would say, properly casual. I mean that they are easy to approach and deal with.

Chambers and Partners

2022

Motieka’s team is the delivering type of team, which always accepts a complex challenge as their personal obstacle to overcome. We are partnering with this M&A team not only for their excellent legal skills but for their out-of-the-box business-oriented solutions.

Legal 500

2021

I have worked with Motieka & Audzevicius team on an M&A project, firm’s team was focused and proactive, aiming to find proper solutions to identified commercial risks and move the project towards its successful closing.

Legal 500

2021

The team has great chemistry and worked together for some time now. We know what to expect from them during deals and always receive fast responses when required. They are tough not only in legal stuff, project management, but negotiations as well.

Legal 500

2020

We rely on Motieka’s corporate team because of its result-focused approach, which drives it to always find a way to successfully represent our interests, irrespective of whether it is a day-to-day corporate issue or the structuring of a critically-important investment.

Legal 500

2020

It is important for a foreign company to have trusted lawyers – partners when entering a local market and acquiring a local business. Motieka & Audzevicius team helped us feel confident that all local nuances would be taken into account.

Chambers and Partners

2021

They go straight to the solving of problems, no needless talk or discussions. What makes them stand out for me is that I can fully trust that problems will be solved and it will be done in a timely manner. I do not need to follow up.

Legal 500

2020

The corporate team is well-familiar not only with legal issues but also is capable of advising regarding business issues and structuring of business framework. This team does not restrict itself with being able to advise on 1 or 2 legal fields. It assists in drawing road maps for legal and business structure.

Chambers and Partners

2018

They value the client's time and are on call 24/7.

Chambers and Partners

2017

They provide not only legal knowledge but way more – strategic business advice for our future development and growth.

Why us?

International, regional, and local clients rely on Motieka & Audzevicius’s Corporate and M&A team for assistance with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, merger control, taxation, venture-capital, private-equity, and other important business-law matters.

We are valued for our proactivity, swiftness, accessibility, and individualized attention, and for our ability to find creative solutions during negotiations and provide simple advice on complex processes.

We never lower the quality of our services and we work hard to create long-term relationships with our clients. As a result, many large and widely respected enterprises come back to us every time important questions arise and when their businesses are in critical need of legal assistance.

Our lawyers have extensive experience working with businesses in various sectors, and in providing the most appropriate solutions to the situation at hand – never overpromising or under-delivering.

Four reasons to choose us:

  • A Specialized Team. Our experts know every inch of the transaction process. Motieka & Audzevicius’s team consists of specialists in different areas of corporate law, allowing us to implement any project.
  • Expert in Complex Transactions. In the last few years alone, our team has worked on a number of the most important domestic and international transactions, including being the lead lawyers of Linas Agro Group in its acquisition of shares in Kauno Grūdai, advising the majority shareholder of Vilniaus prekyba on its buy-out of shares of a minority shareholder, representing in the investments into Hostinger, and representing the founders as well as leading the sale of Mailerlite.
  • International Recognition. For many years the knowledge and experience of our transactional team as a whole, and its individual members, have been recognised by international ranking services such as Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, CEE Legal Matters, and Mergermarket.
  • Top-Level Education. Our team encourages globalisation and constantly seeks inspiration and knowledge from the world’s top universities. Lawyers on the team have graduated from Duke University, the Columbia Business School, the London Business School, Royal College (London), the University of London, and many other widely recognized institutions of higher learning. Our status as the number-one choice of the largest and most widely recognised domestic and international clients inspires us to improve and gives us an experience-based advantage in providing legal services.

How can we help?

We know our clients’ business and we identify with their vision and goals. This allows us to create the most convenient transaction architecture and represent them effectively in negotiations. Instead of quick and basic solutions, we offer specific long-term solutions that can withstand future challenges.

Our services:

  • Project Administration. We create added value beyond the basic provision of legal services. We manage projects from their very first steps and accompany our clients throughout each step of a project to secure their interests, including by communicating on their behalf with third parties, external advisors, state institutions, and other businesses.
  • Business Consulting. The most important thing for us is to create value for our clients. We first aim to understand our clients’ needs and determine the most effective way to achieve their goals. We play chess while others play checkers.
  • Execution of Transactions. We provide all necessary legal services in transactions, including preparing the structure of the deal, advising on tax issues, participating in negotiations, performing legal due diligence, and preparing transaction documentation. We hear, understand, assess, and achieve our clients’ expectations. Our goal is to foresee potential risks, and to understand what is required and what is not to successfully implement the transaction.
  • Joint Activities. We provide comprehensive legal assistance in negotiating, structuring, and concluding joint ventures.
  • Merger Control. We are different from other legal-service providers in the merger-control market, as merger notifications with the Competition Council and its subsequent processes are handled by our Transactions team instead of by lawyers specializing in the regulatory sector, which allows us to take advantage of our unique understanding of our client’s business, the specifics of transactions, and the importance of obtaining merger clearance. Our many years of high-level experience gives us the unique ability to assess as early as possible whether a specific transaction will require merger clearance from the Competition Council, how long the process will take, and what the relevant risks are likely to be.
  • Private-Equity Investments. We represent investors, investment funds, lenders, and management companies at all stages of private-equity investment, including negotiation, transaction structuring, legal due diligence, and preparation of investment documentation, ensuring the successful completion of the investment.
  • Venture-Capital Investments. We regularly assist with the most important venture-capital investments in the market. We offer service packages for venture-capital investors and entrepreneurs starting new businesses and start-ups seeking to attract external venture capital. We prepare the investment structures and necessary shareholders’ agreements, provide advice on the implementation and use of investments and employee options, and perform legal due diligence.
  • Capital Markets. We regularly advise clients on local and cross-border capital-accumulation transactions. We assist issuers, financiers, consultants, and investors on issues related to the preparation and implementation of initial public securities, debts, and official offers.
  • General Commercial Advice. We help clients with a variety of commercial transactions, regardless of their size or importance. We advise on complex and day-to-day issues related to corporate law and on the conclusion of national and international agreements, as well as evaluating whether those agreements comply with the requirements of competition law and working to minimize legal risks during these processes.
  • Tax Strategies. Tax structuring is a key step in almost every transaction and investment, and our skill in the field allows us to create added value and reduce our clients’ financial risk.
  • Modern Business. We keep pace with today’s trends and with legal developments relevant to start-up businesses. Our lawyers are well-versed in the cryptocurrency, NFT, and meta-universe fields – in fact, many of them invest in them personally, and are thus always looking for new opportunities to create added value for themselves and their clients.

Experience highlights

Rokas Jankus

Advised Skycop in the acquisition of 100% of shares in Estonian company Lennuabi

12 February 2024
Edvinas Lenkauskas, Rokas Jankus

Sale of shares in e-commerce company trading jewellery, crystals and other beauty products

28 September 2023
Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Aivaras Grigas

Represented a client in successful addition to its operational car-wash facilities portfolio

31 August 2023
Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Aivaras Grigas

Represented a client in successful acquisition of real estate holding company

31 August 2023
Rokas Jankus, Laurynas Ramonas

Solar SaaS leader PVcase acquires Anderson Optimization, streamlining solar project design

23 June 2023
Rokas Jankus, Darius Amšiejus

Represented the Netherlands-based investment group on the sale of shares of an e-money institution

8 June 2023
Rokas Jankus

Advised Vet Ventures Europe on its strategic investment into the oldest veterinary clinic in Vilnius

2 June 2023
Giedrius Kolesnikovas

Represented the client on acquisition of shares in Vilniaus Prekyba group

29 March 2023
Rokas Jankus, Laurynas Ramonas

Successful cooperation with rising star of EV charging solutions – Inbalance Grid

7 March 2023
Rokas Jankus, Aivaras Grigas

Finnish Titanium Fund buys Avia Solutions Group’s office building

17 February 2023
Rokas Jankus, Laurynas Ramonas

In Balance Grid has formed a joint venture with Baltic private multi-asset alternative investment firm

30 January 2023
Aivaras Grigas, Rokas Jankus

Represented a real estate company in the transaction selling shopping center in Klaipėda

14 December 2022
Giedrius Kolesnikovas

Advised Žabolis Partners on its strategic acquisition in the digital education industry

27 October 2022
Laurynas Ramonas

Assisted Linas Agro Group in selling assets and exiting Russian market

29 August 2022
Rokas Jankus

Advised founder and minority shareholder of Ecso on successful exit

19 August 2022
Rokas Jankus

Advised founders of vertical farming business in raising capital

28 June 2022
Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Rokas Jankus

Represented a Lithuanian startup MailerLite in selling 100%  of shares to the Polish company

27 April 2022
Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Laurynas Ramonas

BaltCap Growth Fund received merger clearance for its strategic investment into Vet Ventures

5 April 2022
Rokas Jankus

Represented a real estate company in the transaction selling shopping center located in Vilnius

4 April 2022
Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Laurynas Ramonas

Marius Jakulis Jason controlled AAA Capital has received merger clearance to acquire Medicinos bankas

23 March 2022

Recognition

Chambers and Partners

2024

It is a really good team. The lawyers are very energetic and develop a really good understanding with the client. They are really good at meeting deadlines, looking at the client's needs and not overcomplicating the process with analysis. They are really agile.

Legal 500

2023

This team seems to enjoy the process, not only the result. Accordingly, they are flexible, proactive, well-organized and good project managers, especially when dealing with a few jurisdictions at a time. In our recent major transaction, their involvement in negotiations was one of the key factors why the deal was completed. Having strong advisors gives an additional boost of confidence for us as clients.

Chambers and Partners

2023

The Motieka & Audzevičius team always finds satisfying solutions even in the most complex and sophisticated matters.

Legal 500

2022

The well-respected team, offering a variety of legal services so that you can get a legal opinion on different kind of topics in one place.

Legal 500

2022

We love Motieka’s “skin in the game” approach, as their investment fund is one of our early investors, allowing us to trust that they are highly motivated to achieve the best results in providing services to us, as it directly affects themselves.

Legal 500

2022

Flexible on tasks, available with even short notice, always trying to help and think broader.

Chambers and Partners

2022

They seem to be sharp. The firm comes over as professional, business-oriented and, I would say, properly casual. I mean that they are easy to approach and deal with.

Chambers and Partners

2022

Motieka’s team is the delivering type of team, which always accepts a complex challenge as their personal obstacle to overcome. We are partnering with this M&A team not only for their excellent legal skills but for their out-of-the-box business-oriented solutions.

Legal 500

2021

I have worked with Motieka & Audzevicius team on an M&A project, firm’s team was focused and proactive, aiming to find proper solutions to identified commercial risks and move the project towards its successful closing.

Legal 500

2021

The team has great chemistry and worked together for some time now. We know what to expect from them during deals and always receive fast responses when required. They are tough not only in legal stuff, project management, but negotiations as well.

Legal 500

2020

We rely on Motieka’s corporate team because of its result-focused approach, which drives it to always find a way to successfully represent our interests, irrespective of whether it is a day-to-day corporate issue or the structuring of a critically-important investment.

Legal 500

2020

It is important for a foreign company to have trusted lawyers – partners when entering a local market and acquiring a local business. Motieka & Audzevicius team helped us feel confident that all local nuances would be taken into account.

Chambers and Partners

2021

They go straight to the solving of problems, no needless talk or discussions. What makes them stand out for me is that I can fully trust that problems will be solved and it will be done in a timely manner. I do not need to follow up.

Legal 500

2020

The corporate team is well-familiar not only with legal issues but also is capable of advising regarding business issues and structuring of business framework. This team does not restrict itself with being able to advise on 1 or 2 legal fields. It assists in drawing road maps for legal and business structure.

Chambers and Partners

2018

They value the client's time and are on call 24/7.

Chambers and Partners

2017

They provide not only legal knowledge but way more – strategic business advice for our future development and growth.

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