Solveiga Paleviciene
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Managing Partner
Professor Dr Solveiga Palevičienė’s (LL.M) practice covers a wide range of corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration at both the domestic and international levels. She has broad experience acting for financial institutions and corporations in commercial claims for breach of contract and fiduciary duty and in shareholder disputes. Professor Dr Solveiga Palevičienė has been included in the list of recommended arbitrators of the Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration and has been designated to the ICSID Panel of Conciliators by the Lithuanian Government. She often participates and speaks at various conferences (both national and international) and publishes articles on international investment law, arbitration and other related issues in various leading European legal journals. Professor Dr Solveiga Palevičienė has been teaching comparative contract law, investment law and the legal protection of personality rights at Mykolas Romeris University in Vilnius for twelve years. She has been also participating in various research programs on comparative tort law, such as the Digest of European Tort Law on Damage established by the European Group on Tort Law (Vienna), on a regular basis.
Work Experience
2017 – present Professor of Mykolas Romeris University, Law faculty, Institute of Civil Justice
2009 – 2017 Associate Professor, Mykolas Romeris University, Law faculty, Institute of Civil Justice
2014 Legal practice in international arbitration, Pierre Tercier International law office, Switzerland
2009 – 2013 Chief Advisor to the President of Lithuania, Head of Legal Department
2008 – 2009 Advocate, VETO LT Professional Partnership of Advocates
2003 – 2008 Lecturer, Mykolas Romeris University, Law faculty, Institute of Civil Justice
2006 – 2008 Chief Advisor to the Chairman of Civil Division of the Supreme Court of Lithuania
2001 – 2006 Advisor to the Judge of the Supreme Court of Lithuania
1998 – 2001 Assistant to the Solicitor, LAWIN Lideika, Petrauskas, Valiūnas ir partneriai (currently Valiunas Ellex)
Education
2013 – 2014 Master of Laws (LL.M.), International Dispute Settlement (MIDS), joint program of the University of Geneva Law School and the Graduate Institute (IHEID), Switzerland
2004 – 2008 Doctor (PhD) in social sciences, Mykolas Romeris University, Law faculty, Lithuania
1996 – 2001 Master of Laws (LL.M.), Vilnius University, Law faculty, Lithuania
Recognition
Appointed by HM the King of Norway the Grand Officer of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit, 5 April 2011
The Legal 500 recommended expert in the field of Dispute resolution
Chambers and Partners recommended expert in field of Dispute resolution and arbitration proceedings
Practice Areas
Languages
English, Russian, French
Membership
Designated to the Panel of Arbitrators for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
Conciliator, the Panel of Conciliators of International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
Included to the list recommended list of Arbitrators of Georgian Dispute Resolution Centre
Lithuanian Bar Association
Recommended arbitrator, Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration
Joined the firm
2014
Monographs
- Drukteiniene S., Paleviciene S., Contributors to Digest of European Tort Law: v. 3: Essential Cases on Misconduct. Koziol H. Winiger B. Koch A.B. (editors). Walter de Gruyter & Co, (2018)
- Drukteinienė S., Palevičienė S. International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Tort Law Lithuania. Wolter Kluwer (2017).
- Co-author of scientific study: Ambrasienė D., Cirtautienė S., Dambrauskaitė A., Selelionytė-Drukteinienė S., Tikniūtė A. Comparative contract Law: Lithuania in European context, Justitia, 2013.
- Kiršienė J., Selelionytė – Drukteiniene S., Cirtautienė S., Contributors to Digest of European Tort Law: v. 2: Essential Cases on Damage. Koziol H. Winiger B. Koch A.B. (editors). Walter de Gruyter & Co, (2011)
- Cirtautiene S. Non-pecuniary damage as kind of civil remedy. Monograph, Justitia, 2008
Publications
- Paleviciene S. Drukteiniene S. LIMITS OF STATE REGULATORY POWER IN INVESTMENT LAW AND UNDER NATIONAL LEGISLATION: SEARCH FOR COMMON DENOMINATOR.; Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues. ISSN 2345-0282, 2020, Vol. 8, No. 2
- Paleviciene S. Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS): To Be or Not to Be? Which Position Should Be Adopted by Smaller EU Member Countries? http://www.terralex.org/publication/pfcea8027a5/investor-state-dispute-settlement-isds-to-be-or-not-to-be-which-position-should-be-adopted-by-smaller-eu-member-countries- , 2015
- Paleviciene S. Consent to Arbitration and the Legacy of the Spp V. Egypt Case / Baltic Journal of Law & Politics. Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 149–162, ISSN (Online) 2029-0454, DOI: 10.2478/bjlp-2014-0009, October 2014
- Paleviciene S. Developments and challenges in investment treaty cases concerning Intra-EU BITs / XV INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE 10 Years in the European Union – Achievements, Problems and Expectations/ Turiba University, Latvia, May 2014.
- Fernekeß K., Palevičienė S., Thadikkaran M. Trade & Investment Treaty Implications of the UK Leaving the EU / prepared for Trade and Investment Law Clinic at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva/ available at: http://graduateinstitute.ch/home/research/centresandprogrammes/ctei/projects-1/trade-law-clinic.html, 2013
- Cirtautienė S. Hardship: problematic aspects in legal regulation and court practice // Scientific study: 10 years for the Civil Code of Lithuania, 2013
Reports in conferences and seminars, organization of conferences
- Organizer and moderator at the international conference, organized by the Supreme Court of Lithuania and the Ministry of Justice on „Interpretation and application of UNIDROIT Principles, PECL, PETL and other soft instruments in Lithuanian court practice”, with attendance of prof. Thomas Kadner Graziano, University of Geneva, 8 March, 2013
- Organizer and moderator at the international conference, organized by the Supreme Court of Lithuania and Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration on Arbitration and the courts: cooperation or competition (with attendance of prof. Pierre Tercier and dr. Jan Kleinheisterkamp), 27 April, 2015
- Report on Impartiality and Independence of Arbitrators in Lithuania delivered at the Seminar on Impartiality and Independence of Arbitrators, organized by Young Arbitration Club Finland in Tallinn, Estonia, 23 April, 2015, http://arbitration.fi/2015/03/20/yacf-event-in-tallinn-independence-and-impartiality-of-arbitrators-in-small-countries/
- Report on Informational duties and liability of insurance mediators at Insurance forum, 2015, Druskininkai
- Report on The Role of Arbitrator, EPAM legal forum, Saint Petersburg, 2016
- Report on Limits of the court power to assess the proportionality of civil remedies chosen by the parties in contractual disputes, conference on Key developments in Civil law, organized by MRU and Lithuanian Supreme Court, October, 2016
- Report on Compensation for NON-pecuniary damages in personal injury cases in Lithuania, 27 May 2016, Milan at the Appellate Court of Italy
- Report on State liability for regulatory changes, Kazan legal forum and Vilnius Arbitration days, October, 2017
- Report on State liability for regulatory changes under national law and investment law, 13 October, 2017
- Report on State liability for regulatory changes issues under national and international court practice at the conference organized by Mykolas Romeris University, the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court of Lithuania on State liability issues from national and international law perspective, 4 May, 2018
- Organiser and moderator of ICC YAF conference on Interim measures in international arbitration, organised by Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration on Arbitration, 29 March, 2019
- Report in the Role of a Judge in the Society, seminar organised by SEB bank of Lithuania for general managers of the bank, 16 May, 2019
- Periodical delivery of seminars on various issues of contract law and investment law to the members of the Lithuanian Bar Association, Judges of the Supreme Court of Lithuania, public institutions and insurance companies (2014-2019).