OREANDA-NEWS. September 19, 2012. Partner Kestutis Svirinas starts working with Law Firm SORAINEN, active in the Baltic States and Belarus. Kestutis is the sixth SORAINEN partner in Lithuania and the 22nd SORAINEN partner in the Baltic States and Belarus region, reported the press-centre of SORAINEN. 

Together with SORAINEN partner Renata Berzanskiene, he will lead the SORAINEN Dispute Resolution Team.With 17 years of legal practice experience, Kestutis Svirinas has become one of the leading professionals in dispute resolution in Lithuania. In the past five years alone he has represented clients or acted as arbitrator in disputes with a total value of over 1.5 billion litas (approx EUR 434 million).

He also has experience in international investment disputes and at the European Court of Justice. Kestutis is prominent in commercial arbitration, having arbitrated in more than 40 proceedings at the Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration, the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and other arbitration institutes abroad as well as in ad hoc arbitration. Kestutis is included in lists of arbitrators of the Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration, the International Commercial Court of Arbitration under the Chamber of Commerce of the Russian Federation, and the Arbitration of the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Moldova.

Having obtained legal education in Lithuania, Great Britain and Italy, in the last 12 years Kestutis worked at one of the leading law firms where he held the position of managing partner for five years.

Kestutis is recommended in the areas of dispute resolution and arbitration by many international legal directories including The Legal 500, Chambers Europe and Chambers Global which recommends Kestutis as one of the four best lawyers in dispute resolution in Lithuania.