Solveiga Vilcinskaite

Relevant arbitration experience:

Prof. Dr. Solveiga Vilčinskaitė (Palevičienė) acts as International Independent
Arbitrator / Council in national and international investment and commercial
cases on contractual, shareholders' and complex state liability issues.

After graduating from the joint program of the University of Geneva School of Law and the Institute of Higher Studies (IHEID), Solveiga earned her master’s degree in law (LL.M.) in the field of international dispute resolution (MIDS). She is also a graduate from the IESE Business School’s Advanced Business Management Program and the Harvard Law School’s Future Law Firm Leadership Program.

In 2024 she finished Diploma Course for International Arbitrators, organised by the SCC Arbitration Institute and the Swedish Arbitration Association, which focused on the key features of international arbitration in Sweden and recent Swedish case law.

Her previous work experience includes working as a Head of Dispute Resolution Team and Managing Partner at Glimstedt Law firm, Partner at TEGOS law firm, chief legal adviser to the President of the Republic of Lithuania, an adviser to the President of the Civil Division of the Supreme Court of Lithuania and as a judicial advisor. In 2011 Solveiga was appointed Grand Officer of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit.

Education & certifications:

1996 – 2001
Master of Laws (LL.M)
Vilnius University, Faculty of Law
Saulėtekio al. 9, LT-10222 Vilnius, Lithuania

2004 – 2008
Doctor (PhD) in Social Sciences (Law)
Doctoral Thesis: Contemporary Interpretation of Non-Pecuniary Damages as a Kind of Civil Remedy
Mykolas Romeris University, Faculty of Law
Ateities g. 20, LT-08303, Vilnius, Lithuania

2013 – 2014
Master of Laws (LL.M.)
International Dispute Settlement (MIDS)
Joint Program of the University of Geneva Law School and the Graduate Institute (IHEID), Switzerland

2020 – 2022
Advanced Management Program (AMP)
IESE Business School at the University of Navarra, Barcelona

2022
Leadership Program
Harvard Law School’s Future Law Firm Leadership

2024
Diploma Course for International Arbitrators
SCC Arbitration Institute, Swedish Arbitration Association, Stockholm

Publications:

MONOGRAPHS
S. Vilcinskaite (co-authors). Mapping Third Party Litigation Funding in the European Union. https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/civil-justice/civil-and-commercial-law/third-party-litigation-funding-tplf_en, 2025.

Palevičienė S., Drukteinienė S. Contributors to Digest of European Tort Law: v. 4: Essential Cases on Limits of Liability. Koziol H. Winiger B. Koch A.B. (editors). Walter de Gruyter & Co, 2025.

Vilčinskaitė S., Drukteinienė S. International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Media Law Lithuania. Wolter Kluwer, 2022.

Palevičienė S. Study on the Rome II Regulation (EC) 864/2007 on the Law Applicable to Non-Contractual Obligations: JUST/2019/JCOO_FW_CIVI_0167 Lithuania: [national report], 2021.

Palevičienė S., Drukteinienė S. Contributors to Digest of European Tort Law: v. 3: Essential Cases on Misconduct. Koziol H. Winiger B. Koch A.B. (editors). Walter de Gruyter & Co, 2018.

Palevičienė S., Drukteinienė S. International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Tort Law Lithuania. Wolter Kluwer, 2017.

Cirtautienė S., Ambrasienė D., Baranauskas E. Civil Law (Law on Obligations) Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, 2004.

Cirtautienė S. Ambrasienė D., Dambrauskaitė A., Selelionytė- Drukteinienė S., Tikniutė A. Comparative Contract Law: Lithuania in European Context, Justitia, 2013.

Cirtautienė S., Kirsienė J., Selelionytė-Drukteinienė S. Contributors to Digest of European Tort Law: v. 2: Essential Cases on Damage. Koziol H. Winiger B. Koch A.B. (editors). Walter de Gruyter & Co, 2011.

Cirtautienė S. Non-Pecuniary Damages as a Kind of Civil Remedy. Monograph, Justitia, 2008.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Palevičienė S., Speičys O. Pandemic’s Impact on Investment Arbitration, Teisė ir COVID-19 pandemija, eds. Jakulevičienė L, Valutytė R., Sagatienė D., Mykolas Romeris University, 2022, 225- 251. ISBN 9786094880278, 2022 Covid book_web_2022-226- 251.pdf (mruni.eu).

Palevičienė S., Speičys O. The End of the Era of Bilateral Investment Treaties Between European Union Member States, Lietuvos teisė 2021. Esminiai pokyčiai, Mykolas Romeris University, 145-155, 2021. 


Palevičienė S., Drukteinienė S. Limits of State Regulatory Power in Investment Law and Under National Legislation: Search for Common Denominator. Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 8(2), 1197- 1210, 2020. http://doi.org/10.9770/jesi.2020.8.2(71). 


Palevičienė S. Consent to Arbitration and the Legacy of the Spp V. Egypt Case / Baltic Journal of Law & Politics. Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 149–162, ISSN (Online) 2029-0454, October 2014. DOI: 10.2478/bjlp-2014-0009. 


Palevičienė S. Developments and Challenges in Investment Treaty Cases Concerning Intra-EU BITs / XV INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE 10 Years in the European Union – Achievements, Problems and Expectations/ Turiba University, Latvia, May 2014.

Cirtautienė S. Problematic Aspects in Legal Regulation and Case-Law in the Context of Changed Circumstances as Grounds for Adjustment of Contracts // Scientific study: 10 years for the Civil Code of Lithuania, 2013. 


Cirtautienė S. Impact of Human Rights on Private Law in Lithuania and Other European Countries: Problematic Aspects // Jurisprudence: research papers, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, 2013, No 20(3).

Cirtautienė S., Vasarienė D. Legal Protection of a Natural Right to Private Property // Jurisprudence: research papers, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius. 2010, No 4(118). 


Cirtautienė S., Pakalniškis V. The Problems of Partitioning of Common Partial Divided Property in Lithuanian Court Practice // Jurisprudence: research papers, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, 2009, No.2(116) Cirtautienė S., Vasarienė D. Social Purpose of Private Property // Jurisprudence: research papers, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, 2009, No 4(118). 


Cirtautienė S., Ambrasienė D. The Role of Judicial Precedent in the Court Practice of Lithuania // Jurisprudence: research papers, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, 2009, No 2(116). 


Cirtautienė S., Ambrasienė D. Pre-Contractual Liability: for Breach of Contract, Tort, or Sui Generis // Jurisprudence: research papers, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, 2008, No 10(112). 


Cirtautienė S., Ambrasienė D., The Role of the Court Practice in Lithuania: Stare Decisis v Jurisprudence Constante. // Privatinė teisė: praeitis, dabartis ir ateitis. Liber Amicorum Valentinas Mikelėnas: mokslinių straipsnių rinkinys // Private Law: Past, Present, Future. Liber Amicorum Valentinas Mikelėnas, Justitia, 2008.

Cirtautienė S. Recovering Legal Persons for Non-Pecuniary Damage: Development and Perspectives in Tort Law Harmonization Process // Šiuolaikinės civilinės teisės raidos tendencijos ir perspektyvos. Mokslinių straipsnių rinkinys // Modern Trends and Perspectives of Development of Civil Law, Vilnius: Justitia, 2007.

Cirtautienė S. Third Persons’ Rights to Compensation for Non- 
Pecuniary Damage in Cases of Health and Fatal Injuries // Jurisprudence: research papers, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, 2007, No 2(92).

Cirtautienė S. Third Persons’ Right to Compensation for Non- Pecuniary Damage in Cases of Health and Fatal Injuries / Justitia, 2006, No. 2(3).

Cirtautienė S., Civil Liability Insurance of Medical Institutions // Justitia, 2005, No 2

Cirtautienė S. Non-Pecuniary Damages as a Kind of Civil Remedy // Jurisprudence: research papers, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, 2005, No 71(63).

Cirtautienė S., Ambrasienė A. Defence of Interests of a Creditor in Contractual Obligations // Jurisprudence: research papers, Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, 2003, No 37(29).

Additional information:

2024 – 2025
Partner
Law Firm TEGOS (TGS Baltic)
Konstitucijos ave. 21a, LT-08130, Vilnius, Lithuania

2020 – 2024
Managing Partner
Law Firm GLIMSTEDT Bernotas & Partners
Jogailos g. 4, LT-01116 Vilnius, Lithuania

2014 – 2018
Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution Department
Law Firm GLIMSTEDT Bernotas & Partners
Jogailos g. 4, LT-01116 Vilnius, Lithuania

Investment law
Trade law
International and national commercial arbitration
State liability, Human rights law
Litigation
Comparative contract and tort law
2017 – present
Professor
Private Law Institute of Mykolas Romeris University School of Law

2003 – 2017
Lecturer, Associate Professor
Mykolas Romeris University, Faculty of Law, Institute of Civil Justice
Ateities g. 20, LT-08303 Vilnius, Lithuania

Lectures for master’s students:

Investment and international arbitration law
Comparative tort law
Civil law (Special Part)
Human rights law
IP law
2014
Intern
Office of the Arbitrator Prof. Pierre Tercier
5 ch Guillaume-Ritter, CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland

International investment law
International commercial arbitration
2009 – 2013
Chief Legal Adviser to the President of Lithuania, Head of Legal Department
Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania
S. Daukanto a. 3, LT-01122 Vilnius, Lithuania

2008 – 2009
Attorney at Law
VETO LT Professional Partnership of Advocates
Ukmergės g. 223, LT-07156 Vilnius, Lithuania

2006 – 2008
Adviser to the Chair of the Civil Division of the Supreme Court of Lithuania
Adviser to the Judge of the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Lithuania
Gynėjų g. 6, LT-01109 Vilnius, Lithuania

1998 – 2001
Assistant to the Attorney
Law Firm LAWIN Lideika, Petrauskas, Valiūnas & Partners
Jogailos g. 9, LT-01116 Vilnius, Lithuania