Competition/Antitrust
Lithuania
13 years ranked
Provided by COBALT
Dr. Lauras Butkevičius has over 20 years of legal experience advising companies in trade, pharma, TMT, and other sectors on various competition and state regulatory issues. Lauras represents clients in competition law infringement proceedings before competition authorities and courts. He also contributes to large and complex M&A transactions in Lithuania and foreign jurisdictions. Lauras has worked on the largest and most complex merger transactions of recent years in health care, production and trade, road construction, financial services, and other sectors.
Dr. Butkevičius is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University and member of Science Center of Administrative Law and Administrative Justice. Lauras’ main areas of scientific interest, research, and expertise are competition law and policy, state supervision of private undertakings, and European Union law.
Dr. Lauras Butkevičius is a member of Lithuanian Bar Association.
Provided by Chambers
Lauras Butkevičius often acts for associations and industry bodies on high-profile behavioural investigations and appeals against authority decisions. He joined COBALT in November 2025.
Provided by Chambers
He has a 360 degree view on the matter.
He is an exceptional lawyer who is not only an authority on competition law but also a very easy-going and nice person. He can speak with business people in their language.
He is super intelligent, smart, responsive, proactive, dynamic and very fast and ready to help. He understands our business very well.
He is one of those lawyers who used to be in-house and that really gives him an edge on understanding the realities, so he is an easier outside counsel to work with.
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