INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL LAW
Finansų teisės institutas
ABOUT IFL
The INSTITUTE OF FINANCIAL LAW is an independent non-profit institution aiming to contribute to the development of financial law via scientific, educational and practical activities. One of the main targets of the IFL is to propagate exchange of information and experience on the international level, thus contributing to the development of financial instruments and practices as well as to the sophistication of the respective regulatory and supervisory framework. Research and education activities remain among our main instruments in increasing the efficiency of financial regulation and greater security of the clients of financial services.
ACTIVITIES
The Institute of Financial Law performs such main scientific, educational and practical activities in the field of financial law:
Research & Expertise
IFL initiates and performs scientific research, national and international projects on issues related to the financial law. The research is carried out by the team of respective IFL internal as well external experts. IFL also takes part as a participant in national, EU and international projects on financial law and issues related to this field. In its research IFL promotes transnational cooperation and interdisciplinarity. Upon request from the private and public entities IFL also performs expert evaluations on the issues of financial law.
Development
The research performed by the IFL is targeted to its later implementation in practice. The IFL cooperates with private and public entities, including law firms, business companies and government institutions, aiming to implement the results of the research into practice.
Publications
The IFL targets to disseminate information on the results of its work as well as the work of other researches and practitioners in the field of the financial law. IFL thus promotes publications of its experts. The IFL aims to publish books and articles, both on paper and in digital form, on the issues of financial law and disseminates such publications via its website and other channels.
Educational activities
The IFL promotes education in the field of financial law, organises and supports educational projects and initiatives, targeted to all types of public to begin with the professionals, businessmen and public officials and end with the students and non-professional customers of the financial services. Upon request the IFL performs closed educational activities for companies, public institutions as well as other interested entities.
Conferences and seminars
The IFL organises conferences and seminars relating to the issues of financial law and favours in particular international cooperation in this field. Also, the IFL promotes active participation of its experts in the scientific and practice oriented events organised by the national and international private and public institutions.
TEAM
The Institute of Financial Law was founded by three legal experts, with wide scientific, practical and educational experience both on national an international level and combining expertise from different field of their respective activities.
Nerijus STRIKULYS, LLM
IFL Director
Email: nerijus@finlaw.lt
Nerijus Strikulys is a licensed bankruptcy administrator and manages one of the biggest bankruptcy portfolios in Lithuania. Besides his activities in the field of bankruptcy Nerijus Strikulys also lectures in the University of Vytautas Magnus (Kaunas, Lithuania) and carries out his doctoral research in the field of financial law. Nerijus Strikulys acts as a director of the Institute of Financial Law.
Dr. Mažvydas MICHALAUSKAS
Attorney at Paris Bar, France
Email: mazvydas@finlaw.lt
Dr. Mažvydas Michalauskas is an attorney in Paris, France and specialises in business law, with particular emphasis on arbitration. Dr. Michalauskas has obtained his doctors degree in Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne university and started his legal practice in 2004. Dr. Michalauskas has lectured in Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (France) university as well as in the University of Vytautas Magnus (Kaunas, Lithuania) (Financial Law).
Dr. Tomas VERŠINSKAS
IFL Deputy director
Email: tomas@finlaw.lt
Dr. Tomas Veršinskas is lecturing financial law in the University of Vytautas Magnus since 2009 (Kaunas, Lithuania). Dr. Veršinskas specialises in the field of structured finance and the securitisation in particular. Dr. Veršinskas has obtained his doctors degree in Sorbonne Paris Cité University (Paris XIII) (Subject of the thesis: Securitisation under Lithuanian Law: Theory and Practice).
CONTACTS
VšĮ „Finansų teisės institutas“
I. Kanto g. 23, 44296 Kaunas
Lithuania
Tel.: 00 370 6 8515338