International Arbitration
MMSP advises and represents clients in high-value and strategically significant disputes, with particular strength in matters involving investment protection, regulated industries, major infrastructure projects and complex corporate relationships.
The practice combines arbitration and dispute-resolution experience with a detailed understanding of the underlying commercial, regulatory and governance issues. This is particularly important in disputes arising from long-term investments, changes in regulation or state policy, infrastructure projects, and relationships between shareholders, investors, public authorities and strategic counterparties.
Focus Areas
- Disputes arising from major energy, infrastructure and construction projects.
- Regulatory change and its impact on investors and businesses.
- Disputes involving strategically important or regulated assets.
- Shareholder, corporate-governance and complex contractual disputes.
- Disputes arising from long-term commercial and investment relationships.
- Property and real estate disputes.
- Negotiation and strategic dispute management alongside formal proceedings.
- Mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.
- Legal and strategic issues involving sovereign states and their assets.
MMSP’s practice is senior-led, allowing clients to work directly with lawyers who have experience as counsel, arbitrators, mediators, experts and corporate decision-makers. This combination of legal and sector experience enables the firm to address both the procedural aspects of arbitration and the economic and commercial substance of a dispute.
Although based in Lithuania, MMSP’s experience and client base extend beyond the Baltic region to Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia.
Representative Experience
- 01Advising on negotiations and dispute management concerning the restructuring of Lithuania’s gas transmission system operator, involving major international energy companies.
- 02Representing a client in a natural-gas pricing dispute.
- 03Handling complex legal and commercial issues arising from major retail and industrial real estate developments in Lithuania, the wider Baltic region and Poland.
- 04Acting as arbitrator and expert in numerous international trade and transportation disputes.
- 05Acting as counsel for Lithuania’s national railway company in a UNCITRAL arbitration concerning a transportation contract.
- 06Representing clients in the recognition and enforcement of international arbitral awards, including foreign proceedings concerning an ICC award.
