Martynas Antanaitis
Associate Partner / Attorney
E-mail: martynas@lawandkey.lt
Tel. No.: +370 626 98653
Main activities:
- Legal disputes
- Business, company and insolvency law
- Civil law, labour law, insurance law and transport law
- Legal protection of personal data
Specialisation:
- Dispute resolution and representation
- Business and labour law
- Legal protection of personal data
Legal practice since 2014:
- Since 2019 – attorney
- Since 2016 – associate
- Since 2014 – lawyer
- Accomplished Data Protection Officer training (2018)
- Court mediator (2018-2019)
- Completed mediator training (2017)
- Lecturer (for students, lawyers, company representatives)
- Lithuanian Bar Association (Lietuvos advokatūra)
- Member of the Labour Law Committee of the Council of Bars of the Lithuanian Bar Association
- Chairman of the Kaunas Branch of the Lithuanian Young Bar Association
- Lithuanian Association of Data Protection Officers (2018)
- 2016 – Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of Law (5-year full-time legal studies, Master of Laws, professional qualification as a lawyer)
- 2016 – Certificate in Transnational Law from Michigan State University College of Law
- Represented the client in business disputes concerning various types of property claims up to EUR 2 million (2016-2019).
- Successfully defended the interests of the client’s administrator of multi-apartment buildings in preserving its valuable real estate: professional legal work resulted in the reopening of the court proceedings in a heard and closed case (reopening of proceedings is applied in exceptional and extraordinary cases) and regaining the ownership right to the buildings located in the Old Town of Kėdainiai, which the state had taken over according to a previous court decision. In addition to the reopening of the proceedings, the case also deals with issues of asset securitisation, mixed jurisdiction (ruling of a special panel of judges) and other complex issues (2019-2020 m.).
- Defended a former company director against claims by the insolvency administrator for a declaration that the bankruptcy of the company he headed was fraudulent and for an award of substantial damages (2019-2020).
- Defended a purchaser of assets against a claim of bankrupt company actio Pauliana for the annulment of a high-value transaction (2019).
- Represented shareholders of companies in operational investigation cases (2016-2020).
- Represented a client in court defending against a claim for damages over EUR 500,000 (2017-2018).
- Defended a former company director against a claim brought against him in court by a bankrupt company for damages amounting to almost EUR 100 thousand (2017-2018).
- Represented a client in a court dispute regarding the confirmation of a financial claim of almost EUR 300 thousand in the company’s bankruptcy proceedings (2017).
- Assisted in settling a court dispute regarding the award of 150 thousand euros from the largest energy company in Lithuania (2016-2017).
- In a legal dispute against an insurance company, assisted the client – an international cargo carrier – in declaring an event as insured and claiming the insurance benefit (2015-2017).
- Advised on a financial claim of more than EUR 1 million against a bankrupt bank (2015-2016).
- Assisted in defending in court a former manager of a company against a claim to declare the company’s bankruptcy fraudulent and order the manager to pay a large amount of damages (2015).
Antanaitis Martynas, Application of Direct Employee’s Tort Liability in Lithuania // Jurisprudencija. 2018, 25(2): 479-497.
- https://www.vdu.lt/lt/vdu-bendradarbiaus-su-lietuvos-jaunuju-advokatu-asociacija/ (2019)
- http://teise.vdu.lt/naujienos/vytauto-didziojo-universitetas-ir-lietuvos-jaunuju-advokatu-asociacija-pradeda-socialini-bendradarbiavima-kaune (2019)
- https://antanaitis.eu/advokatas-martynas-antanaitis-metu-jaunasis-advokatas-2019/ (2019)
- http://ljaa.org/apdovanoti-konkurso-ljaa-metu-jaunasis-advokatas-ir-ljaa-metu-advokato-padejejas-nugaletojai/ (2019)
- http://www.teise.pro/index.php/2020/02/18/m-antanaitis-lat-pasisake-apie-bankroto-proceso-ne-teismo-tvarka-pradejimo-salygas-ir-ju-tikrinimo-tvarka/
- Lecturer in classes for schoolchildren about the law (2019).
- Provided free legal consultations at the Jonava Chamber of Kaunas District Court (2019).
- Participates in the Labour Law Committee of the Lithuanian Bar Council and contributes to the improvement of legal norms regulating labour relations (2020-2021).
- Lecturer in training events: https://www.countline.lt/lektorius/martynas-antanaitis/ ir https://itmc.lt/lektoriai/ (2020-2021)
- Lecturer in the series of lectures for Vytautas Magnus University students “Drafting of Procedural Documents” (2020 and 2021).
- https://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/lietuva/advokatas-apie-nutekintus-duomenis-galima-tiketis-iki-10-tukst-euru-kompensacijos-56-1461022 (2021)
- Winner of the Young Attorney of the Year competition (2019)
- The youngest practising attorney in Lithuania (2019)
- Passing the qualification exam for attorneys on the first attempt (2018)
- Acknowledgement of the Supreme Court of Lithuania for contribution to the development of legal thought, academic activity and legally valuable Master’s thesis (2016)
- Golf player (beginner)