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    • Trade and Distribution

    Practice Areas

    Industries

    Dispute Resolution

    Indisputably the strongest business Dispute Resolution team in Lithuania – and in the Baltics.

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    Corporate and M&A

    Our experienced and business-oriented team makes any transaction easy.

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    Construction and Real Estate

    We manage risks arising from real estate development projects.

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    Tax

    We focus on tax structuring and disputes to ensure fair taxation.

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    Public Procurement

    At each stage of the process, we find the most favorable solutions for our clients.

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    Competition

    Guiding clients through competition-law labyrinths.

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    Financial Law, Compliance & AML

    Result-oriented team offering tailored solutions for financial market leaders and innovators.

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    Crypto Assets Regulation

    Full legal support to help your cryptocurrency business thrive.

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    Employment

    We help businesses ensure smooth relations between employer and employee.

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    Data Protection

    Our team is here to help you navigate the complex landscape of GDPR compliance.

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    Intellectual Property

    Our expertise helps protect your IP portfolio and enforce your IP rights worldwide.

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    Insolvency Solutions

    We help clients make the best decisions to ensure an efficient insolvency process.

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    Agriculture

    We advise agribusiness companies on both common and highly-specific issues.

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    Aviation

    We provide all specialised legal services to the modern aviation industry.

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    Energy

    We offer cutting-edge solutions to complicated problems.

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    Entertainment

    Solutions that meet the challenges of today’s world.

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    Environment

    We help your business be sustainable and comply with environmental requirements.

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    Financial Institutions

    Assisting financial institutions with licensing and compliance matters.

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    Manufacturing

    Providing careful and effective legal protection to manufacturing companies.

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    Pharma and Biotechnology

    We guide clients through the regulatory maze at every stage of the pharma business.

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    Real Estate

    The best legal advisors to help you start a real estate project or resolve a dispute.

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    Technology, Media & Telecommunications

    We advise clients on various TMT issues and provide them with the most efficient solutions.

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    Trade and Distribution

    We advise clients on all aspects of routes to market.

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    Transport

    You choose the way – let us worry about the formalities.

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    Why us?

    Experience highlights

    Selling is a crucial element of business. Our experts are ready to help clients in the trade and distribution sector to limit their risks, so that they can safeguard their supplier-distributor (B2B) and business-consumer (B2C) relations at both national and international levels.

    We advise clients on all aspects of routes to market from traditional trade-and-distribution matters to innovative online-distribution projects (i.e., marketplaces and e-commerce business).

    We have significant trading-and-distribution experience across a wide range of sectors, with particularly broad expertise in automotive, agricultural, consumer-goods, logistics, and IT matters. Our advice also includes assistance with distribution antitrust-law matters and corresponding compliance projects and with the structuring of franchise systems.

    We follow new consumption patterns, trends, technological developments, and changes in the applicable regulatory environment to help our clients stay fully informed. We also help clients set up e-commerce businesses and assist with related aspects such as IT, data protection, general terms and conditions, and compliance with regulatory requirements (including VAT/sales tax issues, customs duties, MOSS, IOSS, and more).

    We can help you with:

    • Trade and distribution disputes
    • E-commerce-related legal services
    • Commercial-agency agreements
    • Distribution and franchising agreements
    • Subcontracting and outsourcing agreements
    • The purchase and licensing of intellectual property
    • Sales and procurement agreements
    • Trade regulations
    • Consumer protection
    • Product liability
    Laurynas Ramonas

    Akola Group invested into start-up Brite which produces natural nootropic drinks

    8 April 2024
    Laurynas Ramonas

    OMG Bubble Tea secured EUR 2.1 million from Akola Group

    15 March 2024
    Raminta Girtavičiūtė

    Provided consultation on the intricate employees dismissals

    18 April 2023
    Giedrius Kolesnikovas

    Represented the client on acquisition of shares in Vilniaus Prekyba group

    29 March 2023
    Raminta Girtavičiūtė

    Provided employment law compliance services

    31 January 2023
    Edvinas Lenkauskas, Laurynas Ramonas

    Ekomlita and YNOT Media joins forces to establish as a global e-commerce player Orbio World

    17 February 2022
    Albertas Šekštelo, Jovita Bislytė

    The Court is convinced: the assets that were in the territory of the bankrupt company belong to the client

    7 February 2022
    Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Rokas Jankus

    Represented the client on acquisition of shares in Vilniaus Prekyba group of companies

    14 January 2022
    Edvinas Lenkauskas, Mantas Juozaitis

    Represented a wholesaler in the tax dispute regarding VAT triangulation and “safety net” provision

    30 November 2021
    Justinas Jarusevičius

    Represented diamond trading company in negotiations with the supplier

    2 June 2021
    Mantas Juozaitis

    Successfully represented the client in a dispute regarding customs duties

    26 October 2020
    Justinas Jarusevičius

    Successfully represented a leading floating dock broker in a dispute

    23 October 2020

    Why us?

    Selling is a crucial element of business. Our experts are ready to help clients in the trade and distribution sector to limit their risks, so that they can safeguard their supplier-distributor (B2B) and business-consumer (B2C) relations at both national and international levels.

    We advise clients on all aspects of routes to market from traditional trade-and-distribution matters to innovative online-distribution projects (i.e., marketplaces and e-commerce business).

    We have significant trading-and-distribution experience across a wide range of sectors, with particularly broad expertise in automotive, agricultural, consumer-goods, logistics, and IT matters. Our advice also includes assistance with distribution antitrust-law matters and corresponding compliance projects and with the structuring of franchise systems.

    We follow new consumption patterns, trends, technological developments, and changes in the applicable regulatory environment to help our clients stay fully informed. We also help clients set up e-commerce businesses and assist with related aspects such as IT, data protection, general terms and conditions, and compliance with regulatory requirements (including VAT/sales tax issues, customs duties, MOSS, IOSS, and more).

    We can help you with:

    • Trade and distribution disputes
    • E-commerce-related legal services
    • Commercial-agency agreements
    • Distribution and franchising agreements
    • Subcontracting and outsourcing agreements
    • The purchase and licensing of intellectual property
    • Sales and procurement agreements
    • Trade regulations
    • Consumer protection
    • Product liability

    Experience highlights

    Laurynas Ramonas

    Akola Group invested into start-up Brite which produces natural nootropic drinks

    8 April 2024
    Laurynas Ramonas

    OMG Bubble Tea secured EUR 2.1 million from Akola Group

    15 March 2024
    Raminta Girtavičiūtė

    Provided consultation on the intricate employees dismissals

    18 April 2023
    Giedrius Kolesnikovas

    Represented the client on acquisition of shares in Vilniaus Prekyba group

    29 March 2023
    Raminta Girtavičiūtė

    Provided employment law compliance services

    31 January 2023
    Edvinas Lenkauskas, Laurynas Ramonas

    Ekomlita and YNOT Media joins forces to establish as a global e-commerce player Orbio World

    17 February 2022
    Albertas Šekštelo, Jovita Bislytė

    The Court is convinced: the assets that were in the territory of the bankrupt company belong to the client

    7 February 2022
    Giedrius Kolesnikovas, Rokas Jankus

    Represented the client on acquisition of shares in Vilniaus Prekyba group of companies

    14 January 2022
    Edvinas Lenkauskas, Mantas Juozaitis

    Represented a wholesaler in the tax dispute regarding VAT triangulation and “safety net” provision

    30 November 2021
    Justinas Jarusevičius

    Represented diamond trading company in negotiations with the supplier

    2 June 2021
    Mantas Juozaitis

    Successfully represented the client in a dispute regarding customs duties

    26 October 2020
    Justinas Jarusevičius

    Successfully represented a leading floating dock broker in a dispute

    23 October 2020

    Key contacts

    Valentas Mitrauskas

    Partner

    VU

    Dr. Rimantas Daujotas

    Partner

    Harvard, Cambridge, Lond., Columbia

    Expert contacts

    Edvinas Lenkauskas

    Partner

    Maastricht, Radboud, MRU

    Albertas Šekštelo

    Partner

    Lond., VU

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