Sigita Zavišienė leads the Financial Services, Compliance & AML teams. Her achievements and competencies in the field of Fintech and financial services regulation have been recognized by international legal directories Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 (2023).
Sigita Zavišienė has more than 12 years of experience in the financial services sector (including credit and payments, financial instruments markets, and consumer credit, P2P and crowdfunding, investment services). She advises clients and financial market players on regulatory and compliance issues. Sigita helps clients obtain relevant licenses for provision of the financial services, as well as advising them on the establishment of management and investment companies and funds. She also advises later-stage clients on their business model compliance.
In recent years, she has advised more than 30 start-ups in the financial services sector, assisting companies from countries such as Germany, Israel, Georgia, and the United States, among many others. Her clients have included such fintech companies as Kreditech, CommonSign, Finansų Bitė, and Forbis, as well as AB Fjordbank, management companies I Asset Management and Žabolis and Partners Capital and the 70 Ventures venture-capital fund.
Sigita’s experience also includes assisting other business sectors with general compliance, anti-money-laundering, and counter-terrorist-financing matters (AML) to entities in other sectors, such as Newsec Advisers LT, the largest real estate brokerage company in the Baltics. Sigita is a certified money laundering and AML specialist (ACAMS certificate). She has also successfully managed exceptional and complex projects: the establishment of one of the few insurance companies in Lithuania (Viena Insurance Group), a venture capital fund financed with EU funds (EUR 6 million), structuring, setting up and obtaining the necessary permits (70 Ventures). Sigita has experience in advising financial intermediaries on applications under INVEGA and EIF calls, as well as representing clients in obtaining financing from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and other institutional investors. Sigita obtained the Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance issued by the International Compliance Association.
Sigita is a highly skilled expert in financial law, and she is dedicated to constantly improving her qualifications in financial services regulation. In addition to her legal education in Lithuania and internships in Belgium and the United Kingdom, she also holds a Master’s degree in Financial Law from Queen Mary University in London and attended the Fintech programme at Oxford Said Business School.
She contributes her accumulated knowledge and experience to the development of the Lithuanian fintech ecosystem by lecturing on Fintech Development and Regulation at VilniusTech University and representing Motieka & Audzevičius in the Fintech Association. In addition, she is an active participant in public discussions with the Bank of Lithuania, where she suggests ways to improve the legal environment, and she is an in-demand speaker at various industry conferences.
Sigita was a member of the Motieka & Audzevičius team from 2012 to 2016 and re-joined the firm in 2017.
Working languages: English, Lithuanian
ACAMS, Certified anti-money laundering specialist
ICA, Diploma in Governance, Risk and Compliance
Oxford Fintech Programme
Queen Marry University of London, LL.M. in Banking and Finance Law
Vilnius University, LL.M.
Ghent University, Exchange studies
Member of:
Lithuanian Bar Association
