Strategic Dispute Management
MMSP helps clients manage complex disputes as business and strategic problems, not merely as legal proceedings. The team is particularly experienced where a dispute involves significant commercial exposure, regulatory intervention, public authorities, strategic assets or long-term relationships. MMSP combines litigation and arbitration experience with negotiation, settlement, corporate governance and sector knowledge to help clients determine how and when a dispute should be pursued, negotiated, settled or otherwise managed.
Clients
The team’s experience acting for governments, investors and corporations, and serving as independent arbitrators in the Baltics and in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe, enables it to assess disputes in their wider commercial, institutional and geopolitical context.
- Sovereign states and governments facing major commercial and investment disputes.
- Foreign investors and international companies in disputes with states and public authorities.
- State-owned and strategically important enterprises.
- Major infrastructure and transportation businesses.
- Energy companies and investors operating in regulated markets.
- Corporate groups, shareholders, boards and senior management dealing with disputes that have wider implications.
- Businesses involved in significant cross-border contractual relationships.
Representative Experience
- 01Managing negotiations and parallel disputes involving major international energy companies in connection with reform of Lithuania’s natural-gas market.
- 02Acting as settlement negotiator between foreign investors and the Republic of Lithuania in numerous matters.
- 03Representing investors in investment disputes against Eastern European states.
- 04Representing a claimant in a high-value enforcement matter against a sovereign state in Eastern Europe.
- 05Advising in a dispute between Lithuania and a foreign investor concerning the enforcement of an arbitral award.
- 06Acting in major commercial arbitration concerning a transportation contract involving a national railway company.
MMSP’s strategic dispute-management practice is designed primarily for matters where there are no easy outcomes. The team focuses on the wider commercial, regulatory and institutional consequences of a dispute and on identifying a plan that protects the client’s long-term position and strategic interests.
