Ellex Valiunas

110 lawyers with top competences, including 27 partners in Lithuania, work in an integrated manner in specialized teams across all business sectors. The specialized practices are led by experts who are recognized and highly ranked in the international legal community. Managing Partner of Ellex Valiunas is Rolandas Valiūnas.

Ellex is a member of the global law firm networks LexMundi, World Service Group, Energy Law Group, NextLaw, International Trademark Association, Employment Law Alliance, Association of European Lawyers, The Three Seas Legal Alliance capable of ensuring smooth onestop-shop implementation of international projects and benefit of extra information to in-house lawyers of our clients.

We advise financial service providers, including payment and e-money institutions, crowdfunding platforms, neo banks and others providing financial services through innovative technological solutions. We also provide advice to technological companies providing FinTech solutions to orientate in the regulatory regime.

We advise, among other, on the following aspects:

• regulatory matters for launching innovative financial solutions;
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• licensing, registering and other supervisory proceedings (e.g., suitability assessments, qualifying holding, general supervisory matters and supervisory inspections);
• cross-border expansion of FinTech companies;
• AML framework and risk assessment;
• establishment of compliance framework and on other compliance matters (e.g., IT, e-commerce) related to the business of FinTech companies.

Ellex experts are widely acknowledged for their top position and expertise in FinTech. Ellex FinTech team is the largest on the market comprised of lawyers who specialize solely in this area.