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We advised Lietuvos geležinkeliai ‒ the largest state-owned railway company in the Baltics ‒ on tender procedures and signing a purchase contract to electrify a major railway infrastructure corridor in Lithuania. Electrification will affect a strategically important railway line linking Klaipėda port, the main cargo and logistics centre in Lithuania, with Vilnius and Belarus. This […]
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Deals & Cases / Laurynas Lukošiūnas, Greta Kubiliūnaitė
The Lithuanian Court of Appeal upheld the first instance court ruling in a precedent-setting case concerning damages related to company losses. The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal and ordered Kėdainių aruodai to pay the litigation costs. On 30 October 2019, the court decided in a final ruling that potential loss-making business transactions do not automatically […]
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Deals & Cases / Laurynas Lukošiūnas, Žilvinas Briedis, Domantas Putrius
We represented Ekonovus in a lawsuit in which utility company VSA Vilnius sought to suspend implementation of a contract for waste transportation in the city centre. The value of the contract awarded by Vilnius Municipality is EUR 16.3 million. The Lithuanian Court of Appeal ruled in favour of our client and upheld the decision of […]
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Publication / Laurynas Lukošiūnas
Lithuanian businessman Vidmantas Kucinskas says he has no knowledge of large-scale fraud charges against him in Russia. Russia’s Alfa Bank is trying to recoup a debt of around 20 million euros from Kucinskas through courts, and the latter believes the bank might try to employ such tactics to bolster its position during the negotiations on […]
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Deals & Cases / Laurynas Lukošiūnas
Sorainen represented Russian commercial bank Alfa Bank in a case concerning recognition of a London Court of International Arbitration decision in Lithuania. After the Lithuanian Court of Appeal decided in favour of our client, the forced recovery of EUR 20 million from the owner of Arvi group, Vidmantas Kučinskas, is under way. The decision of […]
