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Ellex Valiunas has the largest and the most experienced antitrust / competition team in Lithuania. Ellex attorneys provide both conventional and innovative legal solutions for clients on a full range of competition and EU law issues in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and at EU level.

  • Our firm has an exclusive portfolio of the most complex and high-profile cases in all areas of competition law, including antitrust, merger control and state aid.
  • Our professionals have excellent understanding of various industries as well as extensive knowledge of economic and business processes.
  • Our track record of advising and representing clients in landmark competition matters includes matters involving regulators and contentious matters at various dispute resolution venues, both national and European.

Being a full-service law firm, Ellex in the Baltics offers a full range of Brexit legal services, including legal solutions in banking and finance, taxes, customs, product compliance, transport, labor mobility, intellectual property, data protection, and dispute resolution.


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Competition/Antitrust - Lithuania

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Band 1

What the Team is Known For

With its broad and experienced team, Ellex Valiunas remains the leading law firm on the Lithuanian competition market. The team assists clients with obtaining competition law approval for mergers, including representing clients in gun-jumping cases and appeals against prohibitions. It is also active in high-profile behavioural investigations and challenges to authority decisions. Team members offer further expertise in state aid matters.

Work Highlights

  • Ellex represented Ekspress Grupp in an appeal against a merger prohibition decision and a challenge to a fine for alleged gun jumping.

Strengths

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Ellex has the best understanding of competition law and the best track record in the market.

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The lawyers are very good at understanding what a business wants from a legal adviser.

Competition/Antitrust respondent
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For many years Ellex has had a reputation as the best competition team in the market.

Competition/Antitrust respondent
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The firm's most distinctive quality is its knowledge of our industry, and its understanding of its complexity and risks.

Competition/Antitrust respondent
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The firm stands out for its understanding of the law as well as business, its big team and superb leadership.

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Notable Practitioners

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Marius Juonys
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Marius Juonys
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Band 1

Marius Juonys is highly regarded for his broad competition law practice that covers both transactional and contentious competition law work. He assists clients with merger control filings, as well as advising on challenges to merger prohibition decisions. He has notable experience in investigations into alleged abuses of dominance or cartels and in appeals against fines.

He is the best expert in the competition area.

His knowledge of what we are doing is key because we can align our views on risks. He knows how our business is conducted and gets us results.

He is regarded as one of the most experienced competition lawyers in the market with a large portfolio of successful cases.

Marius Juonys is very good at proactively bringing up things that we hadn't thought of, and providing solutions that drive our business forwards.

His ability to quickly grasp complex legal issues and translate them into actionable advice is impressive. He’s pragmatic, thoughtful and solution-oriented.

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Karolis Kačerauskas
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Karolis Kačerauskas
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Band 2

Karolis Kačerauskas stands out for his ability to handle state aid matters, especially within the energy and media sectors.

He is known as the most prominent state aid expert.

Karolis Kačerauskas is good at explaining things in a very understandable way.

He is highly responsive, clear in communication and exceptionally reliable. His legal work reflects a strong blend of precision and strategic thinking, always tailored to the nuances of each case.

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Marius Juonys
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Marius Juonys
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Karolis Kačerauskas
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Karolis Kačerauskas
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