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
Rokas Jankus

Advised on majority stake sale in Lithuanian cosmetics company

27 January 2025
Valentas Mitrauskas

Victory in the dispute over the tenant’s preemptive right to renew the lease for 20 years

2 September 2024
Edvinas Lenkauskas

Advised Dutch company on ESOP taxation

30 July 2024
Edvinas Lenkauskas

Advised Lithuanian e-commerce company regarding VAT

22 May 2024
Edvinas Lenkauskas, Mantas Juozaitis

Advised leading Lithuanian retail company on tax matters

25 April 2024
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
Edvinas Lenkauskas

Victory against Lithuanian Customs Department

28 November 2023
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

Rokas Jankus

Advised on majority stake sale in Lithuanian cosmetics company

27 January 2025
Valentas Mitrauskas

Victory in the dispute over the tenant’s preemptive right to renew the lease for 20 years

2 September 2024
Edvinas Lenkauskas

Advised Dutch company on ESOP taxation

30 July 2024
Edvinas Lenkauskas

Advised Lithuanian e-commerce company regarding VAT

22 May 2024
Edvinas Lenkauskas, Mantas Juozaitis

Advised leading Lithuanian retail company on tax matters

25 April 2024
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
Edvinas Lenkauskas

Victory against Lithuanian Customs Department

28 November 2023
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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