Track Record
Not every success is measured the same way, and not every story can be told. What follows is a selection. The rest is what we do every day.
SPORTS
01 CAS, Lausanne — FIFA's determination amended
A Lithuanian club was ordered to pay training compensation after documents were allegedly uploaded late to FIFA's system — a formality with a six-figure price. On appeal, the CAS amended FIFA's determination in full. One of only a handful of successful challenges under the new Clearing House Regulations anywhere in football.
02 CAS, Lausanne — a two-million-dollar claim, dismissed
When a player terminated his contract without just cause, his new Lithuanian club was dragged into the dispute as co-respondent — facing more than USD 2 million under FIFA's then-rules on joint and several liability, which tribunals applied almost automatically. We represented the Lithuanian club and ran the full CAS proceedings, from written submissions to the hearing room in Lausanne. The player was found liable. The Lithuanian club walked away owing nothing.
03 CAS, Lausanne — match-fixing bans upheld
The Lithuanian Football Federation suspended several players and a club over match- fixing — and the sanctioned parties appealed to the CAS. Working alongside prominent Swiss colleagues, we drafted the defence, built the evidence, and represented the Federation at the hearing. The bans stood. One of the first cases anywhere to rest on Sportradar's betting-monitoring reports — a landmark for how match-fixing is proven in football.
04 FIFA & CAS — record compensation for an abused player
A Lithuanian national team player was left unpaid and under mounting pressure at his Turkish club. We architected the termination — timing, grounds, evidence — then won the case before FIFA. The club fired its last bullet: an appeal to the CAS. The award stood, securing one of the largest compensations ever won by a player in Lithuanian sport.
05 CAS, Lausanne — a Serie A club held to its word
A dispute between a leading Lithuanian club and an Italian Serie A side, first fought before FIFA's Players' Status Committee, ended in a settlement — until the Italian club failed to honour its side of a player loan and blamed our client for breaching first. We took the case to the CAS ordinary division and proved the Lithuanian club right. From the first FIFA filing to the hearing in Lausanne to enforcement of the award — one matter, seen through to the money.
06 Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT) — a coach's claim cut down
One of Lithuania's strongest basketball clubs parted ways with its head coach after poor results — and faced his claim for the full remaining contract. Arguing that results justify termination is one of the hardest sells in sports arbitration, so we attacked the number instead: the coach had failed in his duty to mitigate his damages, and we gave the arbitrator, deciding ex aequo et bono, a clear framework to follow. The claim was reduced significantly. We appear before the BAT regularly — for players and agents too.
07 FIFA Dispute Resolution Chamber — where speed collects salaries
Unpaid wages, abusive treatment, visas and work permits that never materialise — the most common disputes in professional football, and the ones we run with a drilled routine. We have won these cases for Lithuanian national team members and foreign internationals alike, against clubs across several jurisdictions. The mechanics matter: a fast, precise claim, a FIFA award, and a transfer ban on the club that fails to pay. The day after the ban lands, the club calls. Then it pays.
08 FIFA DRC & Players' Status Committee — the club's corner
Sometimes it is the player who walks out, invents a claim, or overreaches — and the club that needs defending. We have successfully defended clubs in these disputes, including a Georgian top-league side against a foreign player's claim for compensation and even moral damages before the FIFA DRC. And when a club is owed money by another club — a transfer fee agreed, signed, and never paid — we know the road through the Players' Status Committee. Both directions, same precision.
09 Deals & negotiations — the quiet part of the practice
Not every result has a case number. We negotiate and structure what a career runs on: first professional contracts — including one signed with S.L. Benfica — transfers to leagues from Portugal's Primeira Liga to the Indian Super League, loans, and the agreements around them. The measure of success here is silence: a deal that closes, terms that hold, and no dispute to litigate later.
COMMERCIAL
01 Supreme Court of Lithuania — founders cleared after a five-year battle
When a start-up and its investor fell out, the founders were accused of taking the company's code and intangible assets with them. The break-up spiralled into more than fifteen separate court cases over five years — a war of attrition as much as a legal dispute. It ended in the Supreme Court of Lithuania: the founders were found not liable. Along the way, the Court quoted the term "start-up" for the first time in its practice.
02 Lithuanian courts & international arbitration — one dispute, two fronts
A private company's long-term lease with a major state-owned enterprise — a significant value contract — came under attack in Lithuania, with the General Prosecutor's Office intervening in the name of the public interest. The battle ran on two fronts at once: Lithuanian courts up to the appellate level, and arbitration before the prominent international arbitration institution. We represented the company across both — parallel proceedings, competing jurisdictions, and the state on the other side.
03 Aviation — a European giant's defence, handled
One of Europe's largest low-cost airlines faced a damages claim from passengers denied boarding during the COVID-19 travel restrictions. A small case on its face — but a loss would have set a dangerous template for claims against carriers at the height of pandemic-era disruption. The defence succeeded in full, and the precedent never came to be.
04 Court of Appeal of Lithuania — six defendants, cleared of unfair competition
One of Lithuania's largest logistics companies went after three companies and three individuals — former people and companies — claiming damages for the takeover of clients and the theft of commercial secrets, in a dispute that crossed borders. Cases like this are won on reconstruction: years of relationships, communications, and business decisions, sorted into a story a court can follow. The Court of Appeal confirmed it — the defendants had done nothing wrong.
05 Court of Appeal of Lithuania — the poker winnings stayed with the player
When a poker player hit a six-figure win online, a self-styled "poker school" appeared with a staking agreement in hand, claiming half. Instead of arguing the contract's terms, we attacked its existence: a counterclaim to declare the agreement null and void as contrary to public order, the Law on Gaming, and the Civil Code. The Court of Appeal agreed. The winnings stayed where they belonged — with the player.
06 Court of Appeal of Lithuania — the evidence that went missing spoke loudest
A prominent healthcare institution sued our client — a company installing security, fire alarm, and engineering control systems — over alleged defects in cable installation. We answered the way these cases demand: every page of the file, every technical regulation, read and weaponised. Then came the turn: key evidence had gone conveniently "missing" while in the claimant's hands, and we invoked contra spoliatorem — the ancient rule that what a party hides is presumed to speak against it. The Court of Appeal applied it. The claim failed.
07 Maritime law — a fire in the Pacific, settled in Vilnius
A cargo vessel caught fire in a Pacific storm off Canada — and a major Lithuanian retailer came after our client, the freight forwarder, for the damaged goods. The dispute reached for rules most lawyers never touch: the Hague-Visby Rules, shipping doctrines more than a century old, the ancient institution of general average — the law of who pays when the sea takes its share. We mastered the unfamiliar terrain, translated it into human language, and closed the matter on terms favourable to the client.
08 Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration — at home in the home forum
Beyond Stockholm and Lausanne, we arbitrate where Lithuanian business actually arbitrates: before the Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration. Our cases there have included disputes for one of the region's major aviation companies over aircraft leasing and maintenance agreements — technical contracts, industry-specific standards, and real money on the line.
09 Cross-border dispute management
Some work never appears on a court docket. For clients with subsidiaries and operations abroad, we manage their disputes across foreign jurisdictions: selecting and instructing local counsel, supervising their work, systemising the risks, and keeping the full picture in one set of hands — so the client fights on many fronts but thinks in one language.