Our team

Agnė Jonaitytė has over 17 years of experience in banking & finance, debt and capital markets, financial services (regulatory and compliance), investment funds, M&A, and wealth management work. She is known as hands-on solution-oriented lawyer, excelling at handling complex transactions and dedicated to seeing things through from inception to successful completion.

In addition, Agnė is well recognised by legal directories IFLR1000, Chambers Europe, Best Lawyers®:

• Best Lawyers®: rated as one of the best lawyers in Capital Markets Law, Financial Institutions, Banking and Finance Law, and Corporate and M&A Law.
• Chambers Europe: “Sources single out Agnė Jonaitytė as an involved lawyer who identifies risks well and offers solutions.”
• IFLR1000: “The banking and finance team has a rising star Agnė Jonaitytė, who peers see as a young talent.”

• Establishment of EUR 60 million AUGA group, AB green bond programme and issue and listing of EUR 20 million of first tranche of the notes
• EUR 36 million secondary public offering of AUGA group, AB shares
• Raseinių Agra, UAB acquisition
• AUGA group, AB acquisition of KTG AGRAR Lithuanian business
• Development and implementation of revised corporate governance model in a Nasdaq and Warsaw SE dual listed company to reflect changes in shareholders structure
• Baltic Champs Group, UAB acquisition of 36% (EUR 42 million) of AUGA group AB shares and financing of the transaction
• Advising on Šiaulių Bankas, AB acquisition of 100% of shares in bank Bankas Finasta, AB and 100% of shares in brokerage company FMI Finasta from Invalda INVL, AB (one of the major companies in Lithuania investing in other businesses and managing assets)
• Advised Danske Bank regarding sale of its retail banking business in Lithuania and Latvia to Swedbank
• Advised on Parex Bankas restructuring, including allocation (transfers) of performing and non-performing assets portfolios between Parex Bankas and Citadele, AB
• Advised Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. on the acquisition of the mortgage finance business AmCredit in the Baltics from the Baltic-American Enterprise Fund
• The Baltic-American Enterprise Fund Advised LOTOS Petrobaltic (a leading Polish oil exploration and production company and part of the LOTOS Group), on financing acquisition of a controlling stake in the Geonafta Group
• Managed Baltic law advice and advised banks’ syndicate on Lithuanian law matters of providing multibillion senior and mezzanine financing to Royal Unibrew Group
• Advised AAC Capital Nebo Sub-LP on EUR 170 million senior and mezzanine financing acquisition of Empower (a major service provider in the energy, telecom and industrial sector in Finland and the Baltic States)
• Lead and managed Baltic law advisers and advised Realia Group Oy on Lithuanian law matters related to its acquisition of Ober-Haus Real Estate Advisors
• Advised major local and international investment funds with operations in the Baltic states on their establishment and compliance issues and numerous acquisitions in Lithuania and other Baltic states as well as obtaining finance for such acquisitions
• Acted as a lead counsel for Baltic jurisdictions and advised Nordzucker on Lithuanian law matters on its acquisition of Danisco Sugar from Danisco for a total consideration of EUR 750.5 million
• Advised Republic of Lithuania on its several Eurobond issues

• Since 2020, Partner at PRIMUS DERLING
• 2017 – 2020, Attorney at A. Jonaityte law firm; Head of legal and corporate affairs at AUGA group AB
• 2017 – 2019, Management board member at AUGA group AB
• 2012 – 2017, Associate Partner at Ellex Valiunas, Head of Wealth Management practice / Banking & Finance team, Corporate & M&A group
• 2006 – 2012, Senior Associate at Sorainen, Banking & Finance, Corporate & M&A group
• 2002 – 2006, Lawyer at Bernotas & Dominas Glimstedt

• Chair of the Board education at Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance (20019)
• Board Member education at Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance (2019)
• Sustainability Management Programme at Swedish Institute, Sweden (2018)
• Cross Border Transaction Management Programme, Lex Mundi Institute, US (2013)
• LLM in Banking & Finance Law, London University (UK) (2005)
• Master in Law, Vilnius University, Lithuania (2004)

• Lithuanian Bar Association
• Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance

• Co-author of the commentary of the Lithuanian Civil Code, volume IV “Hypothecation”, Vilnius, Justitia, 2013
• Co-author of chapter Implementation of the European Takeover Directive in Lithuania published in The European Takeover Directive and its Implementation / ed. by Paul Van Hooghten, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009