FinTech Legal

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Provided by Ellex Valiunas

FinTech

The largest specialised FinTech team in Lithuania

Headed by 2 partners, the practice team includes 9 lawyers, most of them with more than 10 years of legal experience. The experience gained in the field of financial technology, internships with market leaders and international compliance certificates enable the team to comprehensively consider practical issues of our clients.

More than fifty projects

In recent years alone, the FinTech team represented clients in more than 30 projects of financial institution licensing, over 10 projects involving merger and acquisition of financial institutions, and the same number of times advised clients regarding compliance and operation investigations conducted by supervisory bodies.

Experts in prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing

A team of 4 experts work exclusively on matters of the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing.

An active role in developing legal framework

Ellex Valiunas FinTech practice group provided full-range advice to foreign governmental organisations and supervisory bodies on the regulatory reform in the financial sector. In addition, the team actively participates in associations, maintains contacts with the Bank of Lithuania and other institutions providing proposals for the improvement of the legal environment.

Specialisations

• Regulation and compliance
• Licensing
• Brexit legal services
• Legal audits
• Prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing