Edvinas Lenkauskas

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Edvinas Lenkauskas

Tax-law advisor focusing on tax litigation, tax planning, and international trade disputes

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Edvinas Lenkauskas, the co-head of Motieka & Audzevičius’s Tax Disputes team, has more than 12 years of experience in tax litigation and tax structuring. He advises major corporates and high net-worth individuals on complex transactions, focusing particularly on direct-taxation, VAT, and transfer-pricing issues.

Edvinas focuses on tax structuring in foreign jurisdictions such as Malta, Cyprus, the UAE, Hong Kong, Netherlands, the US, the UK, and Estonia, and on helping businesses to make fair use of the most attractive tax options.

Edvinas is also a highly qualified tax-dispute expert and tax litigator, with significant experience at both the domestic and international level (including the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Commission). His most notable victories against tax authorities include:

  • A dispute worth more than EUR 3 million in calculated VAT related to triangulation and “safety net” provisions
  • negotiations with tax authorities in which they backed away from a previous demand that his client pay more than EUR 2.7 million in calculated taxes
  • A dispute worth over EUR 800,000 in calculated personal income tax which resulted in his client receiving more than EUR 180,000 from the tax authorities in compensation.

Over the course of his career, Edvinas has saved his clients more than EUR 16 million in unlawfully calculated taxes.

In recent years, his clients include such prominent companies as Allianz, PGNiG, Hostinger, Eneba, Bankera, Orbio World, MailerLite, Kesko Senukai Digital, Linas Agro, Boslita, YNOT Media, Orion Securities, Brolis Semiconductors, Finbee, Ecso, and Turing College, among many others.

Edvinas participates in many business and tax-related conferences as a speaker, and he communicates frequently with Lithuania’s State Tax Inspectorate in order to improve official commentaries on Lithuanian tax laws (such as the drafting of the commentary on substance requirements for holding companies, in which he participated).

Edvinas is highly experienced in the food, e-commerce, technology, affiliate-marketing, and fintech industries, among others. He is recognised by Legal 500 as a ‘rising star’ and is identified as an innovative lawyer with a strong client base in digital marketing and e-commerce.

Working languages: English, Lithuanian

Maastricht University, LL.M. in International and European Tax Law
Radboud University, Exchange studies
Mykolas Romeris University, LL.B.

Member of:
Lithuanian Bar Association

Chambers and Partners

2024

Edvinas Lenkauskas is a very good tax expert who provides unexpected solutions.

Legal 500

2023

Edvinas Lenkauskas and Mantas Juozaitis seem to have a ton of university degrees with a new one always on the horizon. They are always ready to provide fast and accurate answers to all relevant tax questions. An ability to anticipate upcoming issues or problems is especially useful since it allows us to take pre-emptive actions and save lots of trouble in the future. They are friendly and easy-going people, which creates a pleasant working atmosphere.

Legal 500

2022

We worked with a co-head of the tax team Edvinas Lenkauskas. We were impressed how he had found a possibility to structure our transactions in such a way that we would not lose tax incentive of capital gains, while tax consultants in the other firm, who also worked on our transaction, did not find such solutions.

Legal 500

2020

Motieka & Audzevičius’ tax law team (particularly Edvinas Lenkauskas) is very creative and always thinks outside of the box. It always gives maximum comfort to the client by providing convenient solutions. The group is exceptional because it usually combines tax law advice with relevant business advice.

Legal 500

2020

Edvinas Lenkauskas is definitely the name to note! He is different from competitors because he is an innovative tax lawyer who specializes in tax issues of e-commerce, digital marketing and affiliate networks. Also, he is good on tax structuring because he has experience in various tax jurisdictions. Finally, he always up to date the client on recent developments in the tax field.

Experience

Edvinas Lenkauskas, the co-head of Motieka & Audzevičius’s Tax Disputes team, has more than 12 years of experience in tax litigation and tax structuring. He advises major corporates and high net-worth individuals on complex transactions, focusing particularly on direct-taxation, VAT, and transfer-pricing issues.

Edvinas focuses on tax structuring in foreign jurisdictions such as Malta, Cyprus, the UAE, Hong Kong, Netherlands, the US, the UK, and Estonia, and on helping businesses to make fair use of the most attractive tax options.

Edvinas is also a highly qualified tax-dispute expert and tax litigator, with significant experience at both the domestic and international level (including the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Commission). His most notable victories against tax authorities include:

  • A dispute worth more than EUR 3 million in calculated VAT related to triangulation and “safety net” provisions
  • negotiations with tax authorities in which they backed away from a previous demand that his client pay more than EUR 2.7 million in calculated taxes
  • A dispute worth over EUR 800,000 in calculated personal income tax which resulted in his client receiving more than EUR 180,000 from the tax authorities in compensation.

Over the course of his career, Edvinas has saved his clients more than EUR 16 million in unlawfully calculated taxes.

In recent years, his clients include such prominent companies as Allianz, PGNiG, Hostinger, Eneba, Bankera, Orbio World, MailerLite, Kesko Senukai Digital, Linas Agro, Boslita, YNOT Media, Orion Securities, Brolis Semiconductors, Finbee, Ecso, and Turing College, among many others.

Edvinas participates in many business and tax-related conferences as a speaker, and he communicates frequently with Lithuania’s State Tax Inspectorate in order to improve official commentaries on Lithuanian tax laws (such as the drafting of the commentary on substance requirements for holding companies, in which he participated).

Edvinas is highly experienced in the food, e-commerce, technology, affiliate-marketing, and fintech industries, among others. He is recognised by Legal 500 as a ‘rising star’ and is identified as an innovative lawyer with a strong client base in digital marketing and e-commerce.

Working languages: English, Lithuanian

Industries

Education and Memberships

Maastricht University, LL.M. in International and European Tax Law
Radboud University, Exchange studies
Mykolas Romeris University, LL.B.

Member of:
Lithuanian Bar Association

Recognition

Chambers and Partners

2024

Edvinas Lenkauskas is a very good tax expert who provides unexpected solutions.

Legal 500

2023

Edvinas Lenkauskas and Mantas Juozaitis seem to have a ton of university degrees with a new one always on the horizon. They are always ready to provide fast and accurate answers to all relevant tax questions. An ability to anticipate upcoming issues or problems is especially useful since it allows us to take pre-emptive actions and save lots of trouble in the future. They are friendly and easy-going people, which creates a pleasant working atmosphere.

Legal 500

2022

We worked with a co-head of the tax team Edvinas Lenkauskas. We were impressed how he had found a possibility to structure our transactions in such a way that we would not lose tax incentive of capital gains, while tax consultants in the other firm, who also worked on our transaction, did not find such solutions.

Legal 500

2020

Motieka & Audzevičius’ tax law team (particularly Edvinas Lenkauskas) is very creative and always thinks outside of the box. It always gives maximum comfort to the client by providing convenient solutions. The group is exceptional because it usually combines tax law advice with relevant business advice.

Legal 500

2020

Edvinas Lenkauskas is definitely the name to note! He is different from competitors because he is an innovative tax lawyer who specializes in tax issues of e-commerce, digital marketing and affiliate networks. Also, he is good on tax structuring because he has experience in various tax jurisdictions. Finally, he always up to date the client on recent developments in the tax field.

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