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Our Dispute Resolution team is one of the largest and best in Lithuania. We specialize in a wide range of commercial dispute resolution in Lithuania and abroad and take on the most complex cases, from shareholder and construction disputes and patent-law infringements to international-trade or financial-market litigation.
Our Uniqueness and Strengths
- The Strongest Team. Our team is equipped with an unparalleled level of education, experience, and understanding of key business sectors.
- Exceptional Experience in International Disputes. We regularly represent clients in the most significant and complex trials and arbitrations in Lithuania and throughout Europe, the CIS region, the United States, and even Africa.
- Highly Regarded. Our team dominates the field in prestigious international law-firm rankings such as Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, Global Arbitration Review, and Who’s Who Legal, among others.
- Client Trust. Our team has earned the trust of the largest companies in the region, and we represent clients in the most-important and most-sensitive disputes, including in settlement negotiations, and we often serve as arbitrators, mediators, and experts.
Exceptional Achievements – Dispute Resolution in Lithuania and International Litigation
Our Dispute Resolution team represents Lithuanian and international companies in highly complex disputes, and our remarkable track record of success includes:
- Representing Vilniaus Prekyba, the largest Baltic group of companies, in litigation against an ex-shareholder, in which the court ordered the ex-shareholder to pay our client in excess of EUR 100 million – the highest damages award ever in Lithuania.
- Representing one of the largest corporate groups in the region in the first case in history involving a State’s decision to withdraw its ICSID investor-state arbitration counterclaim (valued at EUR 240 million) and convert it into an independent claim in its own national courts.
- Representing a group of inventors in a dispute with the largest oil producer in Lithuania, in which our clients were awarded EUR 11,3 million in remuneration for the use of their patents in the company’s production processes.
- Representing flyLAL, Lithuania’s now-bankrupt national airline, in its claim for over EUR 200 million in damages against AirBaltic and the Riga International Airport caused by their anti-competitive actions and abuse of dominant position.
- Representing Panevėžio Keliai in several high-profile and politically sensitive cases involving improprieties in the EUR 40 million tender procedures related to the reconstruction of one of the major intersections in Vilnius.
- Successfully representing Luigiterzo Bosca in an investor-state dispute against the Republic of Lithuania and persuading the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Lithuania to recognize and enforce the resulting award – which was the first-ever adverse investor-state award against the Republic of Lithuania.
Our recognized team provides dispute resolution services to local Lithuanian businesses and ones established abroad. We work with international companies providing consultations on matters related to Lithuanian jurisdiction and representing their interests. When solving complex international cases, our experts collaborate with local attorneys abroad. Thus, here at Motieka & Audzevičius, we can offer a well-coordinated international dispute resolution team.
Our team’s success is based on a laser-like focus on the needs of each client, a highly efficient work process, and an unmatched commitment to achieving the best-possible results. We quickly identify the best course of action in difficult situations and provide clear guidance in local and international commercial litigation and arbitration.
Our Dispute Resolution Lawyers have an unparalleled record of successfully resolving complex business disputes.
- Negotiation and Mediation. We are regularly recognized as the best negotiators in the market, and clients regularly ask for our assistance in the most sensitive disputes, either as legal counsel or as experts, arbitrators, or mediators. We often participate in negotiations worth hundreds of millions of euros, and in these and all other matters we are skilled at developing the most appropriate strategy and action plan, always keeping in mind the potential impacts on the finances, reputation, and business interests of the people involved. Ultimately, we strive to ensure that the result of the negotiations meets our clients’ hopes and expectations.
- Dispute Litigation. We are indisputably the most experienced litigators in Lithuania. Local and international companies recognize and value our exceptional professionalism and unsurpassed perseverance in litigation and dispute resolution. We always work closely with client teams to coordinate processes and ensure that decisions of the court are executed.
- Local and International Arbitration. We have the most experience in the market in representing clients in the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, the ICSID International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington, the London Court of International Arbitration, the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, and with UNCITRAL, GAFTA, and FOSFA arbitration proceedings. We accompany our clients at all stages of the arbitration process: we prepare the most appropriate strategy, professionally represent our clients both in written and oral proceedings, and ensure the recognition and enforcement of resulting arbitral awards.
- Investment and Regulatory Disputes Against the State. Our team is extensively experienced in investment disputes, and we represent clients in complex investor-state arbitrations in Washington, the Hague, and Paris, as well as in investment and regulatory disputes in Lithuanian administrative courts, including those involving international sanctions, national-security-screening proceedings, and violations of competition law or money-laundering-prevention.
- International Courts and Institutions. We have extensive experience successfully representing clients before the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the European Commission.
- Construction and Real Estate Disputes. We regularly represent clients in large construction litigation and arbitration disputes (FIDIC, etc.), and in public-procurement disputes with construction regulators related to major infrastructure projects, among other things.
A historic win: we achieved the highest-ever damages award in a Lithuanian public procurement case
29 May 2025Victory at the Supreme Administrative Court: proceedings reopened due to unlawfully applied sanction
13 May 2025An attempt to challenge the legality of an arbitration award has been prevented
9 May 2025Major victory – the CJEU to interpret PSD2 in our client’s case
5 May 2025Successfully represented major auto dealer in EUR 10 million dispute
30 April 2025Successfully defended the client against a 2 million EUR claim
17 November 2024An arbitration case on the performance of a share purchase option agreement
10 September 2024Victory in defending clients’ interests from accusations of causing wilful bankruptcy
5 September 2024Victory in the dispute over the tenant’s preemptive right to renew the lease for 20 years
2 September 2024Victory before the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania in the annulment of the Bank of Lithuania’s sanction
20 June 2024Successfully defended clients against the claim for USD 13.7 million in damages
14 June 2024Victory in a Fintech case concerning unlawful detention of funds
6 June 2024Successfully contested 2 million EUR creditor claim
29 April 2024Successfully represented JP Srbijagas on recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards
24 April 2024Successfully represented Lithuanian investor in treaty arbitration against the Kyrgyz Republic
15 April 2024Victory at the Court of Justice of the EU setting a significant precedent for financial institutions
22 February 2024Represented Srbijagas before the Lithuanian Supreme Court on extension of arbitration clause
13 February 2024Successfully represented client in the case of annulment of the road easement
22 November 2023Victory at the Court of Appeal of Lithuania in an unfair competition case
17 October 2023Victory in dispute regarding termination of the agreement and compensation of the damages suffered
16 October 2023Arbitration in Lithuania: a guide for international companies
30 May 2025Is Europe’s fintech regulatory climate stifling innovation?
4 September 2024Losing everything and winning: BrucBond wins against the Bank of Lithuania
16 July 2024Post-Brexit litigation features and recommendations for business
23 February 2021Lithuanian freezing order – key issues to know when you try to get one
4 September 2020The 2nd Edition of Arbitration in Lithuania is online
19 February 2020The Arbitral Tribunal’s anti-suit injunctions in European Union Law
11 May 2018Victory of E energija in the case against the Republic of Latvia
22 January 2018Russian Arbitration reform through the lens of Lithuanian Law
13 October 2017Role of Lithuanian national courts in the arbitral proceedings
31 March 2017Problemic aspects of applying res judicata in international arbitration
10 October 2016Arbitration between Philippines and China on territories located in the South China Sea
12 July 2016Theory of the arbitration: the perspective of legal realism
28 June 2016Key changes to the Regulation Brussels I
28 April 2016Why Hague Court cancelled arbitration decision between Yukos and Russia?
20 April 2016International economy sanctions: structure and disputes
29 March 2016Global territorial dispute resolution: main methods and principles
3 March 2016Pathological arbitration clauses in Lithuanian law
28 January 2016Yukos arbitration: tribunal’s jurisdiction and standards of investors’ protection
26 November 2015Review of recent Lithuanian case law development on the application of the New York Convention
12 November 2015Why us?
Our Dispute Resolution team is one of the largest and best in Lithuania. We specialize in a wide range of commercial dispute resolution in Lithuania and abroad and take on the most complex cases, from shareholder and construction disputes and patent-law infringements to international-trade or financial-market litigation.
Our Uniqueness and Strengths
- The Strongest Team. Our team is equipped with an unparalleled level of education, experience, and understanding of key business sectors.
- Exceptional Experience in International Disputes. We regularly represent clients in the most significant and complex trials and arbitrations in Lithuania and throughout Europe, the CIS region, the United States, and even Africa.
- Highly Regarded. Our team dominates the field in prestigious international law-firm rankings such as Legal 500, Chambers and Partners, Global Arbitration Review, and Who’s Who Legal, among others.
- Client Trust. Our team has earned the trust of the largest companies in the region, and we represent clients in the most-important and most-sensitive disputes, including in settlement negotiations, and we often serve as arbitrators, mediators, and experts.
Exceptional Achievements – Dispute Resolution in Lithuania and International Litigation
Our Dispute Resolution team represents Lithuanian and international companies in highly complex disputes, and our remarkable track record of success includes:
- Representing Vilniaus Prekyba, the largest Baltic group of companies, in litigation against an ex-shareholder, in which the court ordered the ex-shareholder to pay our client in excess of EUR 100 million – the highest damages award ever in Lithuania.
- Representing one of the largest corporate groups in the region in the first case in history involving a State’s decision to withdraw its ICSID investor-state arbitration counterclaim (valued at EUR 240 million) and convert it into an independent claim in its own national courts.
- Representing a group of inventors in a dispute with the largest oil producer in Lithuania, in which our clients were awarded EUR 11,3 million in remuneration for the use of their patents in the company’s production processes.
- Representing flyLAL, Lithuania’s now-bankrupt national airline, in its claim for over EUR 200 million in damages against AirBaltic and the Riga International Airport caused by their anti-competitive actions and abuse of dominant position.
- Representing Panevėžio Keliai in several high-profile and politically sensitive cases involving improprieties in the EUR 40 million tender procedures related to the reconstruction of one of the major intersections in Vilnius.
- Successfully representing Luigiterzo Bosca in an investor-state dispute against the Republic of Lithuania and persuading the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Lithuania to recognize and enforce the resulting award – which was the first-ever adverse investor-state award against the Republic of Lithuania.
Our recognized team provides dispute resolution services to local Lithuanian businesses and ones established abroad. We work with international companies providing consultations on matters related to Lithuanian jurisdiction and representing their interests. When solving complex international cases, our experts collaborate with local attorneys abroad. Thus, here at Motieka & Audzevičius, we can offer a well-coordinated international dispute resolution team.
How can we help?
Our team’s success is based on a laser-like focus on the needs of each client, a highly efficient work process, and an unmatched commitment to achieving the best-possible results. We quickly identify the best course of action in difficult situations and provide clear guidance in local and international commercial litigation and arbitration.
Our Dispute Resolution Lawyers have an unparalleled record of successfully resolving complex business disputes.
- Negotiation and Mediation. We are regularly recognized as the best negotiators in the market, and clients regularly ask for our assistance in the most sensitive disputes, either as legal counsel or as experts, arbitrators, or mediators. We often participate in negotiations worth hundreds of millions of euros, and in these and all other matters we are skilled at developing the most appropriate strategy and action plan, always keeping in mind the potential impacts on the finances, reputation, and business interests of the people involved. Ultimately, we strive to ensure that the result of the negotiations meets our clients’ hopes and expectations.
- Dispute Litigation. We are indisputably the most experienced litigators in Lithuania. Local and international companies recognize and value our exceptional professionalism and unsurpassed perseverance in litigation and dispute resolution. We always work closely with client teams to coordinate processes and ensure that decisions of the court are executed.
- Local and International Arbitration. We have the most experience in the market in representing clients in the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris, the ICSID International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington, the London Court of International Arbitration, the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, and with UNCITRAL, GAFTA, and FOSFA arbitration proceedings. We accompany our clients at all stages of the arbitration process: we prepare the most appropriate strategy, professionally represent our clients both in written and oral proceedings, and ensure the recognition and enforcement of resulting arbitral awards.
- Investment and Regulatory Disputes Against the State. Our team is extensively experienced in investment disputes, and we represent clients in complex investor-state arbitrations in Washington, the Hague, and Paris, as well as in investment and regulatory disputes in Lithuanian administrative courts, including those involving international sanctions, national-security-screening proceedings, and violations of competition law or money-laundering-prevention.
- International Courts and Institutions. We have extensive experience successfully representing clients before the European Court of Human Rights, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the European Commission.
- Construction and Real Estate Disputes. We regularly represent clients in large construction litigation and arbitration disputes (FIDIC, etc.), and in public-procurement disputes with construction regulators related to major infrastructure projects, among other things.
Experience highlights
A historic win: we achieved the highest-ever damages award in a Lithuanian public procurement case
29 May 2025Victory at the Supreme Administrative Court: proceedings reopened due to unlawfully applied sanction
13 May 2025An attempt to challenge the legality of an arbitration award has been prevented
9 May 2025Major victory – the CJEU to interpret PSD2 in our client’s case
5 May 2025Successfully represented major auto dealer in EUR 10 million dispute
30 April 2025Successfully defended the client against a 2 million EUR claim
17 November 2024An arbitration case on the performance of a share purchase option agreement
10 September 2024Victory in defending clients’ interests from accusations of causing wilful bankruptcy
5 September 2024Victory in the dispute over the tenant’s preemptive right to renew the lease for 20 years
2 September 2024Victory before the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania in the annulment of the Bank of Lithuania’s sanction
20 June 2024Successfully defended clients against the claim for USD 13.7 million in damages
14 June 2024Victory in a Fintech case concerning unlawful detention of funds
6 June 2024Successfully contested 2 million EUR creditor claim
29 April 2024Successfully represented JP Srbijagas on recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards
24 April 2024Successfully represented Lithuanian investor in treaty arbitration against the Kyrgyz Republic
15 April 2024Victory at the Court of Justice of the EU setting a significant precedent for financial institutions
22 February 2024Represented Srbijagas before the Lithuanian Supreme Court on extension of arbitration clause
13 February 2024Successfully represented client in the case of annulment of the road easement
22 November 2023Victory at the Court of Appeal of Lithuania in an unfair competition case
17 October 2023Victory in dispute regarding termination of the agreement and compensation of the damages suffered
16 October 2023Insights
Arbitration in Lithuania: a guide for international companies
30 May 2025Is Europe’s fintech regulatory climate stifling innovation?
4 September 2024Losing everything and winning: BrucBond wins against the Bank of Lithuania
16 July 2024Post-Brexit litigation features and recommendations for business
23 February 2021Lithuanian freezing order – key issues to know when you try to get one
4 September 2020The 2nd Edition of Arbitration in Lithuania is online
19 February 2020The Arbitral Tribunal’s anti-suit injunctions in European Union Law
11 May 2018Victory of E energija in the case against the Republic of Latvia
22 January 2018Russian Arbitration reform through the lens of Lithuanian Law
13 October 2017Role of Lithuanian national courts in the arbitral proceedings
31 March 2017Problemic aspects of applying res judicata in international arbitration
10 October 2016Arbitration between Philippines and China on territories located in the South China Sea
12 July 2016Theory of the arbitration: the perspective of legal realism
28 June 2016Key changes to the Regulation Brussels I
28 April 2016Why Hague Court cancelled arbitration decision between Yukos and Russia?
20 April 2016International economy sanctions: structure and disputes
29 March 2016Global territorial dispute resolution: main methods and principles
3 March 2016Pathological arbitration clauses in Lithuanian law
28 January 2016Yukos arbitration: tribunal’s jurisdiction and standards of investors’ protection
26 November 2015Review of recent Lithuanian case law development on the application of the New York Convention
12 November 2015Recognition
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