OREANDA-NEWS. April 30, 2015. Games Industry Law Summit will be held in Vilnius for the first time on April 24, 2015. The summit offers an exciting one-day programme packed with intensive panel discussions by legal and business development professionals from the international games industry.

The goal of the summit is to provide a framework for practical discussions & networking for attendees to expand their vision of the international games industry. The target audience are in-house counsel from game studios/operators, practising business development specialists who work with content/IP and lawyers from firms with a dedicated games industry practice.

Among attendees at the summit will be industry professionals from over 20 countries representing companies with exceptional experience in games development such as Valve, GOG, Wargaming, Nordeus and Riot Games. The line-up of speakers to appear at the event now includes prominent experts: Tobias Schelinski (Taylor Wessing, DE), Tobias Haar (Gameforge Group, DE), Roman Zanin (Wargaming.Net, CY), Jas Purewal (Purewal & Partners, UK), Fred Fierst (Fierst, Kane & Bloomberg LLP, US), Ekaterina Nemova (Wargaming.Net, LT), Claas Oehler (IHDE & Partner Rechtsanw?lte, DE), Peder Oxhammar (Baker & Mckenzie, SE), Taygun Alban (EPIN, TR), Jan-Peter Ewert (Valve, LU) and many others.

The programme will feature a range of current topics including Games Industry M&A, Venture Capital; State Regulation of the Games Industry, EULA (Global/ Local); Conflicts in the Games Industry: Resolution Options; User-generated Content (UGC), Esports; The Future of Games Industry Law, and the like.

The summit is organized by Charlie Oscar, an independent studio created by industry veterans in order to develop & release original properties, and SORAINEN, a leading law firm in the Baltics and Belarus and the only law firm in the region with a dedicated games industry law practice. The event is sponsored by Invest Lithuania, Osborne Clarke and Taylor Wessing, supported by the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Digital Game Developers Association and The Video Game Bar Association.

For more information about the Games Industry Law Summit and sponsoring options, please visit the official website at http://gameslawsummit.org.