Law Office Bernotas ir Dominas Glimstedt

Law Office Bernotas ir Dominas Glimstedt, one of the leading law firms in Lithuania, has been acknowledged to provide an outstanding quality service in many fields of business law, including company and commercial, banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, competition, energy and privatisation law.

The firm has been set up as a partnership alliance of Lithuanian lawyers and one of the largest law firms in Sweden. As has been confirmed on numerous occasions, the business community has very positively reacted to this combination of Western service standards and local knowledge. Today the firm can also offer the assistance of its Latvian partners in Riga and our Estonian partners in Talinn.

A tremendous step forward was made through a 2003 merger with Jaskutėlis, Stasiulis & Masiokas. JSM lawyers and other personnel worked at equally ranking Vilnius office of the US based McDermott, Will&Emery that operated in Lithuania from 1991 to 2001. The partner Kęstutis Jaskutėlis significantly contributed to further improvement of the firm's professionalism and reputation while partner Jonas Masiokas enabled the firm to expand its litigation practice.

Bernotas & Dominas Glimstedt advises a large variety of local and international clients, from multinational corporations to private individuals. It mainly focuses on business law practice and is able to assist in all areas of business law.

The firm acts in most of the major cross-border transactions in Lithuania , both in co-operation with international law firms and independently. For example, over the last several years its lawyers advised on all the major bank acquisitions in Lithuania (covering over 80% of all the Lithuanian banking sector assets).

The company's strength is well-trained, ambitious and experienced professional personnel. Most of the lawyers have been educated in Western universities and firms and possess professional knowledge not only in law, but also in other areas, such as business management, corporate finance and public relations.

http://www.glimstedt.lt


Prime Investment

Prime Investment is one of the most prominent investment banking companies in Lithuania focused on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning and restructuring.

Since its foundation in June 1997, Prime Investment has originated and successfully completed a number of projects, some of which are among the largest and most complex projects of their kind in Lithuania .

Accumulated expertise, outstanding working relationships with a network of funds and banking institutions allows the company to implement most complex financing schemes, combine debt and equity financing in a cost efficient and highly professional manner. Prime Investment provides strategic and financial advisory on M&A as well as business valuation, assistance in the negotiation process and deal structuring in order to maximize profitability of a transaction.

A network of similar partner firms in Scandinavia, the Baltic and Belarus enables Prime Investment to extend its services on a regional basis. Prime Investment works in the English, Russian and Lithuanian languages.

Prime Investment is a member of Prime group.

http://www.primeinvestment.lt

TNS Gallup

Currently, over 13000 market research professionals in 70 countries worldwide work for TNS Global. In 2005, TNS group achieved a sales turnover of 1.45 billion EUR.

TNS Gallup in Lithuania generated a sales turnover of 12.9 million Litas in 2005. In 2005 the company conducted over 193 thousand interviews, 195 focus groups, 182 in-depth interviews and more than 11 thousand mystery shoppings. Currently TNS Gallup employs 366 permanent professional staff, with 248 of them being certified interviewers.

The TNS Gallup office in Vilnius has 3 focus groups rooms with a full compliment of audio-video equipment, and a fully automatic 28 CATI station center for telephone interviews.

Since 1998, TNS Gallup has been the leading media and advertising monitoring research company in Lithuania, by being the first and the only company to introduce the TV-Meter system in the country.

Since 1995, TNS Gallup employees have been members of ESOMAR, the world's leading market research association, which has more than 4,000 members from 100 countries. TNS Gallup strictly adheres to regulations of ICC/ESOMAR (European Society for Opinion and Marketing research) "International code of Marketing and Social Research Practise".

www.tns-gallup.lt