Experience
Before entering legal practice as an attorney, Edenas Leleiva worked as a pre-trial investigation officer, gaining experience in complex financial and economic crime investigations, including cases with an international dimension. His investigative work covered international money laundering, VAT fraud, including missing trader intra-Community (MTIC) schemes, fraudulent accounting, criminal bankruptcy, online fraud and other financial offences. He also investigated cases involving support from European Union Structural Funds. A distinct part of his experience concerns financial and investment fraud, including Ponzi schemes, as well as offences involving cryptoassets and cryptocurrencies.
In his legal practice, Edenas Leleiva focuses on complex civil and commercial disputes, including shareholder conflicts, proceedings concerning the investigation of legal entities’ activities, and cases involving the compulsory sale of shares, rights or membership interests. He handles disputes that require not only legal expertise but also an understanding of financial accounting, corporate governance and business structuring. His investigative experience helps him systematically assess financial flows, the economic substance of transactions, accounting records and their evidential relevance to the facts of a case.
His practice also encompasses insolvency law, including bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings and related disputes, as well as other business law matters. When advising businesses, Edenas Leleiva assesses legal solutions alongside their economic implications, business continuity and long-term commercial objectives.
Edenas Leleiva represents legal entities in international commercial arbitration, court proceedings and negotiations, chairs shareholders’ meetings and advises companies and their members on business organisation, corporate governance and legal risks. His approach combines procedural strategy with an understanding of financial circumstances and business relationships.
Specialisation
Business and civil law
Commercial disputes, contracts, business law, civil proceedings and strategic dispute management.
Insolvency, arbitration and international litigation
Insolvency law, cross-border disputes, arbitration and coordination of multi-jurisdiction proceedings.
Specific criminal-law matters
Financial and economic cases, contraband and excise-goods cases, and investigations involving psychotropic substances.
Languages
Lithuanian
English
Approach
In business and dispute matters, a legal solution should be evaluated together with its economic consequences: enforceability, separation of risk, business continuity and whether the chosen procedural route actually moves the client toward the intended result.
Career path
Investigator practice
Complex investigations involving money laundering, VAT fraud, fraudulent accounting, criminal bankruptcy and other financial offences.
Wise Law
Business and civil law, commercial disputes, insolvency, international litigation, arbitration and specific criminal-law matters.
Shareholder disputes: practical guides
Court investigation of a legal entity: when is it useful and where should you start?
The mandatory pre-action request, its content and timing, the role of experts and the difference between an investigation and a compulsory share sale.
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Buying another participant’s stake versus requiring purchase of your own: legal conditions, the two court stages, valuation and payment.
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