OREANDA-NEWS.  July 17, 2013. A five-strong team of real estate lawyers led by attorney-at-law Ausra Mudenaite joined SORAINEN today. Ausra Mudenaite, the seventh partner of SORAINEN Lithuania who will head the Real Estate & Construction Team together with Kestutis Adamonis, a longtime partner of SORAINEN, thus creating the strongest team on this market in Lithuania.

Mudenaite, who has 16 years’ experience as a lawyer, and Adamonis, who has been working for SORAINEN for 15 years already, are regularly top-rated by the most prestigious independent legal directories, such as Chambers Europe and The Legal 500. Only three Lithuanian attorneys-at-law have earned such recognition in the area of real estate so far.

“We are glad that two leading Lithuanian real estate lawyers and the teams led by them have joined forces in our firm. Now that it has been expanded to include 12 legal experts, our Real Estate & Construction Team can offer the broadest range of expertise in this area available on the market. This is a significant change for both our firm, which has taken yet another development step, and for our clients, who will be offered an even wider range of specialist advice,” says Laimonas Skibarka, the office managing partner of SORAINEN Lithuania.

In Mudenaite’s words, SORAINEN clients will be offered professional legal advice in the areas of real estate law where specialisation can only be acquired through long experience. This includes in particular land law, territory planning, design and construction, environmental protection, protection of immovable cultural heritage, public-private partnership projects, etc.

According to Chambers Europe, Mudenaite “is viewed as a leading figure in the market for territory planning and construction”. In addition, Mudenaite is the first Lithuanian female lawyer included in World’s Leading Women in Business Law, a directory published by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC.

Mudenaite has advised clients in a number of major real estate and infrastructure development transactions in Lithuania as well as represented them in construction-related litigation and arbitration cases. The legal team led by Mudenaite provides legal services regarding various real estate, construction, territory planning, infrastructure development, project financing and related matters.

Mudenaite is the 24th regional partner of SORAINEN operating in the Baltic States and Belarus. In the past seven years, Mudenaite had been a partner and the head of the Real Estate and Construction Team at law firm Raidla Lejins & Norcous. The Mudenaite-led team of lawyers joining SORAINEN consists of Dr Olga Petroseviciene, Giedre Frolenkiene, Jolita Komiciute and Asta Augutyte.