Džiuginta Balčiūnė has gained over 15 years of experience in corporate law, mergers & acquisitions (M&A) and insolvency.

Attorney is an aknowledged lecturer in corporate and Insolvency law, an author to several legal articles published in business and law magazines. Curently she works with complex corporate issues, including acquisition of own shares, reorganisation of group of companies, participates in structuring complex employee incentive schemes, option grants. Džiuginta represents shareholders‘ interests in legal disputes and througout the whole M&A process. She also takes part in various solvency-related issues in restructuring and insolvency cases, beeing one of the first attorneys to sucessfully instigate several restructuring cases under the new Law on Insolvency of the Republic of Lithuania during the pandemic.

Before joining ILAW LEXTAL Džiuginta represented shareholders’ and issuers’ interests with the supervisory authorities of a regulated market, was a member of Supervisory Council in a number of public companies acting in aviation, agricultural and real estate sectors. She has worked with “PwC Legal“, „Cobalt“ and „Glimstedt“ law firms, also in a Representation of the European Commission in Berlin.

Currently Džiuginta is an active member of the regional Management Board in Lithuania at the German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce (https://www.ahk-balt.org/lt/), European Business Network (https://ebn.lt/), is one of the recommended lawyers by Advantage Austria (https://www.advantageaustria.org/). Apart of membership in these recognised and prominent organisations, Džiuginta is specifically fond of representing the interests of women and promoting women leadership in Business Woman Association (https://www.bwa.lt/). She is also one of the suggested mentors in fintech and startup section guided by Enterprice Lithuania (Lith. Versli Lietuva) (https://mentoriai.verslilietuva.lt/mentorius/dziuginta-balciune/) with focus on probona legal activities taking place at various start-up hubs in remote regions of Lithuania:

• Panevėžys https://www.verslilietuva.lt/paslaugos/spiecius/spiecius-panevezyje/;
• Šiauliai https://www.verslilietuva.lt/paslaugos/spiecius/spiecius-siauliuose/, and
• Klaipėda https://www.verslilietuva.lt/paslaugos/spiecius/spiecius-klaipedoje/.

Attorney-at-Law has gained a master degree in commercial law at Vilnius University and Master of German and European Law and Legal Practice at Humboldt University in Berlin.

She speaks Lithuanian, Russian, English and German languages. 

• In cooperation with Swedish Chamber of Commerce and German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce organised seminar "Competition law – prohibitive arrangements (cartels)", 2008

• HOW TO ESTABLISH A PRIVATE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (UAB) IN LITHUANIA: BASIC REGULATORY FRAMEWORK AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS/ Sozdanije kompanii s ogranicennoj otvetstvennostju v Litve: prakticeskije aspekti, Pravo, 2010 No. 5, str. 45 – author

• Corporate Laws of the World: Layout for the Country Reports/ Gesellschaftsrecht des Auslands in Einzeldarstellungen/ Länderbericht Litauen, 2010 – co-author

• Directory of Contracts: 8. Financial Contracts, Verslo žinios, 2010 – co-author

• German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania in cooperation with RAIDLA LEJINS & NORCOUS organised business breakfast – seminar „Effective execution of court decision as a way to secure creditor interests"