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Antanas Paulauskas

Associate partner

Areas of practice: Corporate law, Sports law, Real estate, construction and territorial planning law.

Antanas Paulauskas has more than 10 years of legal practice experience in the field of dispute resolution. Antanas has accumulated extensive experience in sports law, where he represents sports federations, clubs, athletes and agents and helps them resolve various legal issues. Antanas has successfully represented his clients in courts, in the Basketball Arbitral Tribunal (BAT), and in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), as well as with FIBA, UEFA and FIFA. He also has considerable experience in commercial, real estate and construction law, both in participating in the resolution of disputes arising in these fields, and in preparing documents for transactions concluded in these fields. Clients value Antanas Paulauskas for his professional approach, attentiveness, competence and sense of responsibility.

Languages: Lithuanian, English

Practice:

Corporate law
Sports law
Real estate, construction and territorial planning law

Career:

Member of the ADLEX team since 2007
Member of the Lithuanian Bar Association since 2015
Member and chair of the Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) Appeals Committee from 2013 to 2018
Expert for LFF licencing legal requirements from 2011 to 2020
Member of the FIDE Fair Play Commission from 2019 to 2023
Member and deputy chair of the Lithuanian Anti-Doping Agency Disciplinary Commission since 2019
Included on the Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration List of Arbitrators (Sports) since 2020
Member of the National Serious Case Panel of The Football Association (The FA) in England since 2023

Education:

Master of Laws 2008: Vilnius University, Faculty of Law
Certificate of advanced study in football law 2016: Kadir Has University (Istanbul, Turkey) in cooperation with the University of Padova (Italy), Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain) and UEFA., UEFA Football Law Programme
Masters of International Sports Law 2021: Higher Institute of Law and Economics (ISDE; Madrid)