Press Release

Law Firm Valiunas Ellex enters the year 2017 with new additions to its team of partners. The firm’s new partners are Joana Baublytė-Kulvietė, expert in financial markets and regulatory law, Dovilė Greblikienė, expert in regulated industries and commercial law, Dr. Aistė Medelienė, expert in tax and customs law, and Laura Ziferman, expert in public procurement and PPP.

“Business has been undergoing significant changes over the recent years, with new products and services being developed (particularly in the e-space) and business consolidations taking place, which all leads to the diminishing of the traditional boundaries of cross-sector competition. The clients are expecting a full range of integrated legal services. Therefore, we are positive that the four experts in different fields will strengthen the firm’s existing team of fifteen partners and will help us offer even more innovative solutions and premium legal services to our clients,” says Rolandas Valiūnas, managing partner of Valiunas Ellex.

Expert in financial markets and regulation law Joana Baublytė-Kulvietė has over 14 years of experience in working with different financing, acquisitions, securities, corporate sales transactions and in other areas of regulated financial services. She offers advice to clients on matters of incorporating, licencing, restructuring banks and other financial institutions, and represents them in litigation. J. Baublytė-Kulvietė joined Valiunas Ellex in 2002 and is currently supervising the firm’s financial market and regulation practice.

Head of the regulatory industries and trade sub-group Dovilė Greblikienė has been dealing with the issues of the energy sector for more than 11 years. D. Greblikienė has worked with projects covering different fields of energy and her expertise therefore is vast, ranging from the sectors of power, gas and heat to hydrocarbon extraction. She has represented clients in energy-related cases in national courts and international arbitrations. Besides, her specialty as a lawyer covers other regulated industries such as transport and telecommunications, as well as regulation and liberalisation of the relevant tariffs.

Dr. Aistė Medelienė, is an expert in tax and customs law and the head of Valiunas Ellex’s tax practice. Before coming to work for Valiunas Ellex back in 2011, Dr. A. Medelienė had been a member of the Commission on Tax Disputes. Furthermore, she has ten years of academic experience working at the Law Faculty of Vilnius University, and has co-authored many scientific articles, publications, and books. By combining her theoretical and practical knowledge and keeping a systematic approach, she has earned her clients’ trust in solving the most complicated tax-related issues.

Laura Ziferman, head of the public procurement and public and private partnership (PPP) practice at Valiunas Ellex has eleven years of experience in providing public procurement advice in complex infrastructural projects, as well as unique experience in working on every major public and private partnership project currently underway in Lithuania. Over her years of practice, L. Ziferman has represented her clients in many case-law proceedings involving termination of multi-million contracts due to violations of the public procurement procedure, imposition of huge fines, and presentation of interpretations of the most relevant public procurement matters.