Practice areas:

Competition, Litigation and Arbitration, Public Procurement and Public-Private Partnerships

Career:

• Since 2009 partner of law firm Sutkiene, Pilkauskas & Partners
• Since 2003 attorney-at-law of law firm Sutkiene, Pilkauskas & Partners
• 2001–2008 lecturer on competition law and tax law at Vytautas Magnus University and at Mykolas Romeris University
• 2000-2003 head of the Legal Department of the Competition Council of the Republic of Lithuania
• 1998 first as a lawyer, then as adviser on legal matters at the Competition Council of the Republic of Lithuania

Education:

• Lina Darulienė holds a PhD in social sciences (programme of law)
• In 2002, she finished reading for a doctorate at Mykolas Romeris University (the University of Law of Lithuania at the time) and defended a doctoral thesis in social sciences ("The Peculiarities of the Application of Competition Law to the Governing of Banking Activities in the EU and Lithuania")
• 1998 Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania (Master’s degree in Law)
• 1995 Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania (Master’s degree in Business administration)

Publications:

• The cartel prohibition (The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Cartels & Leniency 2009)
• The cartel prohibition (The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Cartels & Leniency 2008)
• Antitrust Review: Lithuania (Global Competition Review: The European Antitrust Review 2006)
• Antitrust Review: Lithuania (Global Competition Review: The European Antitrust Review 2005)
• Unfair Competition and Unallowable Advertising // Verslo Žinios, 12 May 2006
• Cartel Agreements: Arguments against Participating // Verslo Žinios, 15 December 2006
• Distribution Agreements can be in Breach of Competition Law // Verslo Žinios, 23 July 2003
• Sources of Competition Law of the European Union and Lithuania // Jurisprudencija: The University of Law of Lithuania. Scientific Work, 2002, V.27 (19)
• Specifics of Application of Competition Law of the European Union and Lithuania in Regulating Activities of Banks // Jurisprudencija: The University of Law of Lithuania. Scientific Work, 2002, V.24 (16)
• The Competition Council of the Republic of Lithuania about Protection of Freedom of Fair Competition// Verslo Labirintas, 2002 (1)
• Competition Law: Block Exemption Applicable to Vertical Agreements // Justitia, 2000, No. 3

Member:

• Lithuanian Bar Association

Language:

Lithuanian, English, Russian

Experience:

• Represented a major Baltic bank Balti Investeeringute Grupi Pank AS (Big Bank), specialising in the field of consumer credits, in its disputes with the Competition Council regarding use of misleading advertising and in disputes regarding registration of the trademark "Bigbank – the fastest  way to money" (2008 – 2009);
• Represented one of the most famous world producers of clothing and accessories Italian company Valentino Fashion Group S.p.A., which uses trademarks Marlboro Classics, in a dispute with the State Tobacco and Alcohol Control Agency (2008 – 2009);
• Represented UAB Clear Channel Lietuva, which is a subsidiary of one of the largest outdoor advertising companies in the world, in a dispute with the Vilnius City Municipality in administrative and general courts regarding cancelling of privileges and advantages given to a competitor to operate in the market (2008 – 2009);
• Represented the interests of a waste management company belonging to the German Toensmeier group in the Competition Council and administrative courts in settling disputes regarding lawfulness of the decisions of the Kaunas Municipality whereby the client’s competitor was granted exclusive rights to provide waste management services in Kaunas city (2008);
• Advised one of the largest companies of retail and wholesale trade in medicines and goods of medical purpose, UAB TAMRO, on issues of competition law and concentration control, represented the company in the Competition Council (2008 – 2009);
• Counselled UAB MAXIMA LT on legal issues of concentration control, represented the company in the Competition Council (2008);
• Counselled one of the largest and most modern milk processors in the Baltic States, AB Pieno Žvaigždės, on competition law issues and represented the client in the investigation of the Competition Council regarding a cartel agreement of milk processing companies (2007 – 2008);
• Represented UAB G4S Lietuva (former UAB Falk Security), the largest security services company in Lithuania, which is a company of the world group G4S, in the Competition Council and in administrative courts in a case regarding conformity of provisions of certain orders of the Police Commissioner General of Lithuania, by which police authorities were given the right to provide contractual commercial security services with regard to natural and legal persons’ property to requirements of Article 4 of the Law on Competition (2006 – 2008).