Transport Law
Mindaugas Šimkūnas Law Firm provides legal assistance related to transport legal issues:
- contracts (orders) on cargo transportation on roads;
- international and local logistics, forwarding, loading, agency, warehousing, and other contracts;
- claims, letters of protest, cargo acceptance-transfer acts and other necessary documents;
- preparation of carrier instructions, documents formalizing cargo acceptance for transportation;
- counseling related to all issues of local and international cargo transportation, drawing up international cargo transportation contracts in accordance with the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (CMR), legal conclusions regarding application of carrier liability, liability distribution, employee liability against the employer (carrier), cargo detention, forwarder ability to exercise recourse, discharge of carrier liabilities, insurance disputes;
- representation of carriers, forwarders, agents, middlemen, cargo senders and consignees in courts and elsewhere;
- client representation in disputes among cargo transportation participants, disputes related to premiums of cargo insurance policies or carrier's civil liability insurance policies and regulations, insurance disputes, exaction of damages caused during transportation or exaction of damages related to transportation;
- client representation in lawsuits related to compensation for the loss, damage, arrest or late cargo delivery and cargo delivery to consignee.
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Corporate Law
Mindaugas Šimkūnas Law Firm provides legal assistance related to all legal company operation issues:
- incorporation and registration of all types of companies (public limited liability companies, private limited liability companies, agricultural companies, cooperative societies, partnerships, limited partnerships, individual enterprises, public bodies, associations, charity and relief funds, communities (residential housing construction communities, communities of the owners of multi-flatted residential houses, communities of garage owners, gardeners' communities)) their subsidiaries and branches, preparation of incorporation documents, supervision of company incorporation process etc.
- the Law firm accomplishes all new company incorporation procedures: document preparation and coordination with the notary, company registration at Legal Persons Register, company registration at Tax Payers' Register, registration of company as a value added tax (VAT) payer.
- legal execution and registration of amendments of company incorporation documents (Articles of Association, provisions). Preparation of obligatory documents and their certification at the notary, filling in forms issued by Legal Persons Register, the registration of the change of shareholders at the Legal Persons Register;
- organization of meetings of shareholders, agenda preparation, conduction of meetings, counseling on the issues of adopted decisions, administration of documentation;
- preparation of agreements between participating companies, participating companies' voting agreements, preparation of internal company documents: regulations of governing bodies, decisions of collective company governing bodies as well as orders, protocols, decisions and their annexes of sole governing bodies, preparation of work regulations of company management body and company employees' working duties descriptions, preparation of documents related to the issuance of securities, preparation of deeds of transfer as well as documents related to increase or reduction of authorized capital.
- company internal document management pursuant to the provisions of the Company Law;
- representation of shareholders in relations with other shareholders or with a legal person, implementation of client's right to information, client's representation at general meeting of shareholders, preparation of shareholders' agreements, supervision of governing body activities, litigation in court against resolutions adopted by the general meeting of shareholders, exaction of damages arising from actions of the governing body of a legal person, representation of company in state or municipal property privatization process;
- facilitating to obtain business licenses (permits) from state and local self-government institutions;
- counseling on issues of incorporation and legal form of company, structure and intercommunications of company governing bodies, obligations of company collegiate and sole governing bodies, legal liability and accountability issues, legal person's activities and shareholders rights, legal regulations of business and commercial activity, company management, bankruptcy and insolvency issues, mergers, takeovers, restructuring, acquisition, sale and liquidation, tax and public procurement issues;
- legal audit of company contracts, preparation of claims on recognition of transactions as null and void;
- company restructuring, company reorganization by merging or dividing whereof into separate entities, company liquidation, preparation of relevant documents;
- preparation of company transfer and acquisition documents, sale or purchase of shares;
- representation of companies, creditors, debtors, shareholders, company managers, governing bodies and other interested persons during bankruptcy and liquidation process;
- preparation of legal claims regarding initiation of bankruptcy or restructuring lawsuits, preparation of procedural documents, representation in court, bankruptcy administrator and company liquidator services (provided by partners of Mindaugas Šimkūnas Law Firm).
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Labour Law
M. Šimkūnas Law Firm provides legal aid in relation to all labor law issues, both collective and individual:
- collective agreement projects
- legal assessment of effectual collective agreements;
- commercial secrecy protection agreements;
- training expense compensation agreements;
- non-competition agreements;
- documentation of the company's internal policy procedures, job descriptions, regulations, and occupational safety regulations;
- draft orders (on exercising disciplinary liability; termination; forming a committee of labor disputes resolution etc.);
- other documents used in legal labor relations;
- consulting on drawing up individual and collective labor contracts
- establishing of work councils, consultation of workers;
- consulting on employment of foreigners (from EU and other non-EU countries), aid in getting work and residence permits;
- client representation during negotiations, at state institutions, at the courts of all instances and the disputes arising from legal labor relations.
Representation
The Law Firm guarantees qualified representation and defense of client's interests during the resolution of disputes:
- advocacy of interests of legal and natural persons;
- counseling on choosing suitable ways of dispute resolution;
- alternative ways of disputes resolution: negotiations, mediation, reconciliation procedures;
- arrangement of contracting parties' meetings, provision of all necessary services: correspondence, translation service, premises for negotiations and other means which enable the parties to reach a peaceful agreement;
- representation at state, self government and other institutions, associations and organizations;
- representation at pretrial disputes' resolution institutions;
- representation of interests at civil, administrative, family, labor, tax and intellectual property ownership defense lawsuits at the courts of all instances;
- defense of creditors' interests, actio Pauliana, indirect claims, company bankruptcy and restructuring lawsuits.
- representation at arbitrage;
- preparation of adjudicatory (arbitral) agreements, adjudicatory (arbitral) exceptions, preparation of peace agreements;
- preparation of procedural documents (claims, statements, petitions, gravamens (complaints) to be produced in court.
- planning of a dispute resolution and litigation strategy, prevision of the process of procedural actions and particularities;
- aiding in recognition of the rulings of foreign courts and arbitrages;
- court or arbitrage ruling implementation procedure and its coordination.
Debt prevention and administration
Mindaugas Šimkūnas Law Firm provides pretrial and judicial debt administration and prevention services to natural and legal persons:
- execution of debt prevention and debt exaction procedure at the lowest cost to the client, by exercising all possible peaceful measures, in order to avoid litigation procedure;
- collection of information on debtor's ability to pay and property in his possession;
- written debt claims (payment past due notices) to debtors;
- correspondence with debtors concerning repayment of their debts;
- negotiations with debtors regarding repayment of debts and the terms of repayment (schedule) whereof.
- agreements on debt repayment schedule, amending agreements on change of manner of implementation of pecuniary liabilities;
- securing of loans by guarantee, collateral, bills of exchange;
- other ways to secure repayment of debt or implementation of deferred liability (statement of de facto circumstances, auction sale of the property, which has been pledged as collateral);
- succession of debtors claims against third persons, offsetting debtor's counter-claims;
- debt recovery in accordance with a judicial procedure:
- petition on issuance of a writ;
- document submition procedures;
- claim on adjudgement of debt;
- preparation and submission of relevant documents to court;
- challenging debtor's agreements in accordance with judicial procedure: indirect claims (actio Pauliana) (in the event of establishing that the debtor acted in bad faith);
- initiation of bankruptcy proceeding;
- debtor's (who is a legal person) subsidiary liability issues (in the event of evidence of bad faith);
- debtor's (who is a legal person) criminal liability issues ((initiation of pretrial investigation, upon establishing the evidence of the debtor's criminal act: illegal (fictitious, premeditated) bankruptcy, fraudulent bookkeeping etc.))
- client representation in court;
- submitting writ of execution to a bailiff for enforcement;
- control of enforcement of a writ of execution (ensuring that debtor's assets have been seized and necessary inquiries have been submitted regarding the debtor's property, etc.).
Family Law
Mindaugas Šimkūnas Law Firm provides legal assistance in all legal family matters:
- consultation regarding legal-financial issues related to marriage conclusion, establishment of legal status of the spouses' property, conclusion, implementation and amendment of marriage contracts, marriage termination (divorce), recognizing marriage null and void, property and non-property rights of spouses, spouses' mutual and child support issues, adoption issues;
- counseling on estate protection, estate administration, estate division, testaments, challenging succession right testimony and other issues arising from heirdom legal relations;
- agreements on marriage, separation, family assets division and legal consequences of divorce;
- obtaining of court permits (acceptance of estate, transfer of assets);
- preparation of procedural and other documents (claims, petitions);
- representation in court during divorce settlement procedures, dividing family property, establishment of place of residence of children, adjudgement, increase or reduction of alimony, award of alimony to a spouse, moral damages, establishment of custodial or warship rights, establishing or challenging fatherhood, origin, representation in adoption lawsuits.









