Title: Admiralty and Maritime

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Vilija Vaitkute Pavan

Partner

 

Vilija Vaitkute Pavan

Firm: LAWIN, Lithuania
Address:Jogailos 9
Vilnius LT-01116
Lithuania
Phone:+370 52681888
Fax:+370 52125591
Email:Send an Email
Local Time:Sat. 09:56
Web site: Direct Page

Languages: Lithuanian, English, Russian
Joined the Law Firm in: 1996

 

Areas of Practice

 

Main Focus: Head of the Dispute Resolution practice group

  • Energy & Utilities
  • General Corporate Advice
  • Infrastructure & Transport
  • International & Domestic Arbitration
  • Litigation
  • Mediation & Other ADR
  • Reorganization, Insolvency, Liquidation

 

Professional Career

 

Professional Associations

  • International Bar Association

2011 - 2012 Vice-chairwoman; 2008 - 2012 Board Member American Chamber of Commerce in Lithuania
2010 to date - IBA Litigation Committee Chair for Lithuania
2008 to date - Member, Vilnius University Law Faculty Alumni Society Council

2011 to date - Recommended arbitrator of the Polish Lewiatan Court of Arbitration
2010 to date - Recommended arbitrator of International Commercial Arbitration Court (ICAC), Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russian Federation
1997 to date - Recommended arbitrator, Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration
2009 to date - Swedish Arbitration Association
2008 to date - Association ArbitralWomen
2007 to date - Chairwoman, Commission on Arbitration, ICC Lithuania
2006 to date - International Court of Arbitration of ICC, ex officio member of ICC Commission on Arbitration
1997 to date - International Road Transport Union (IRU) legal assistance network
1997 - 2004 - President, Lithuanian Young Bar Association (LJAA)

Publications

2010, ICCA publication International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration, Supplement 60, Chapter: Lithuania
2008, Country Rapporteur, ICC International Court of Arbitration Bulletin, 2008 Special Supplement Guide to National Rules of Procedure for Recognition and Enforcement of New York Convention Awards
2008, LAWIN publication Arbitration in the Baltics
2006, Country Report on International Arbitration in Lithuania in Arbitration Law and Practice in Central and Eastern Europe, by Juris Publishing, Wolf Theiss
Since 2006, Chapter Enforcing Contracts in Doing Business in [year]: Creating Jobs, by The World Bank (reviewed annually)
2005, Chapter on Dispute Resolution in Lithuania in Winning Legal Strategies for International Litigation
2003, Chapter on Dispute Resolution in Doing Business with Lithuania, by Lideika, Petrauskas, Valiunas ir partneriai LAWIN and Lithuanian Development Agency
2003, Chapter on Arbitration in Doing Business in Lithuania, by The World Bank



Professional Activities and Experience

1996 to date - Law firm LAWIN (2007 to date - partner)
1995 - Partner, UAB Jusmarina, Klaipeda, Lithuania
1994 - 1995 Legal adviser, Klaipeda stevedoring company KLASCO, Lithuania
1996 - Internship, Davies Arnold Cooper, U.K
1993 - 1994 Internship, Richards Butler, U.K
1995, 2001 - Lecturer of Maritime law, Klaipeda University and Klaipeda High Sea School, Lithuania


Bar Admission

1999, Attorney at Law (Lithuania)

 

Education


1994 Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Maritime Law
1993 Vilnius University, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree
1992 Studies at Orebro University, Sweden