Dispute resolution, insolvency and restructuring

With Rödl & Partner in Lithuania, you will find a reliable partner with outstanding expertise in litigation. We develop comprehensive, individualised conflict solutions and help you assert your rights.

Litigation, arbitration and mediation

Rödl & Partner's multi-location team for complex litigation and arbitration offers our clients professional support in dispute situations and dispute resolution. Our experienced lawyers work together in order to resolve conflicts and team up with specialists from the audit and tax consulting service lines to develop the optimal solution for our clients.

Our interdisciplinary solution to your conflict

Our interdisciplinary approach in procedural law is of great importance in particular in disputes concerning valuation or other business-related issues:

Corporate disputes (actions seeking shareholder exclusion, severance pay, disputes over defective resolutions etc.)
Special proceedings concerning stock corporation law issues
Controversies in M&A transactions
Distribution law issues (e.g. sales representatives, franchising, authorised dealers)
International proceedings
Enforcement of claims in foreign trade matters
Real estate law (civil and public construction law, tenancy and residential property law, real estate funds)
Disputes in mechanical engineering & plant construction
Banking law issues relating to collaterals
Disputes relating to intellectual property rights (e.g. trademark, patent and copyright law, unfair competition law)
Anti-trust and competition law disputes and public procurement law
Disputes with authorities, including administrative court proceedings
Insolvency matters.

Companies in financial distress have an especially high potential for conflict (transactions challenged by the insolvency administrator, D&O liability etc.). This is where Rödl & Partner's experience in corporate restructuring proves to be of great value when it comes to resolving conflicts and representing creditors and debtors.

An increasing number of commercial disputes involve foreign elements. Our clients can take advantage of the added value provided by Rödl & Partner' global reach spanning over 100 locations. Together with our colleagues worldwide, we also offer professional services and assistance in cases of conflict from a single source (e.g. via ADR – Alternative Dispute Resolution).

Our lawyers have extensive experience in national and international arbitration. We handle arbitration proceedings acting as representatives of parties but also as recommended arbitrators. Also within the framework of contract drafting, we advise our clients on appropriate arbitration and jurisdiction clauses.

Our approach to conflict resolution:

Prevention (contract drafting to ensure legal certainty also in future, contract management, timely documentation but also concerted effort to find common ground)
Out-of-court solutions and Alternative Dispute Resolution procedures
Representation in courts and arbitration institutions
Securing and seizure of assets locally and abroad
Enforcement of judgements, injunctions and arbitral awards locally and abroad.

Insolvency law and restructuring

Rödl & Partner provides advisory in connection with companies in distress, representing the interests of all stakeholders involved in formal insolvency as well as out-of-court proceedings. We work across borders and disciplines with local and international experts especially in the fields of company law, distressed M&A, employment law, banking and financial law, capital markets law as well as tax law.

We advise primarily the management of distressed companies, secured and unsecured creditors, customers and suppliers as well as insolvency practitioners in all insolvency law matters. In the course of a transferring restructuring, we advise both sellers and buyers. In the restructuring of companies, we advise on the preparation of insolvency plans (also within the framework of insolvency protection proceedings) and on debtor-in-possession administration matters.

Our comprehensive and tailored insolvency law advisory for:

EXECUTIVE BOARDS:
Avoidance/reduction of liability risks, avoidance/reduction of criminal liability risks, assistance in filing for insolvency, assistance in insolvency proceedings

CREDITORS:

Assertion and enforcement of claims in insolvency proceedings, enforcement of security interests e.g. retention of title, contract optimisation, advisory in connection with creditors’ pools

CUSTOMERS AND SUPPLIERS:
Legal assistance in handling on-going contractual relationships in the context of insolvency or petition-for-insolvency proceedings.

HEALTH CARE AND NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS:
We support health care stakeholders (e.g. hospitals, nursing homes, foundations, doctors, pharmacists, community health centers, insolvency administrators, etc.) in the context of crises and insolvency situations. This includes, among others, assisting health care companies in out-of-court proceedings to avoid insolvency and also – in case of the inevitability of an insolvency filing – in the implementation and monitoring of sector-specific insolvency plan and self-administration procedures and / or corresponding company sales and acquisitions.

INSOLVENCY PRACTITIONERS:
Expert opinions, identification and assertion of (court) claims in relation to insolvent estate, especially contesting insolvency, insolvency related employment law, assistance in distressed M&A transactions.

INSOLVENCY ADMINISTRATORS, TAX CONSULTANTS AND AUDITORS:
We provide assistance in all questions related to insolvency tax law (e.g. drawing up expert opinions on the treatment of insolvency tax matters, obtaining binding information to prevent the creation of restructuring profits, taking over insolvency bookkeeping as well as support with audits and tax dispute proceedings).

Legal assistance in restructuring:

Debt-equity swap, insolvency plans, debtor-in-possession administration, insolvency protection proceedings, subordination agreements, letters of comfort, agreements granting the debtor a respite or cancellation of debts in order to avoid bankruptcy, out-of-court settlements, employment law.