Rapolas Kasparavičius

Rapolas Kasparavicius, an associate partner, is specialized in arbitration with a particular focus on investor-state arbitration. Having joined the firm in 2011, Mr. Kasparavicius was involved in the firm’s very first investor-state arbitration and the second investor-state arbitration involving the Republic of Lithuania as a party, and represented the clients, investors and the states, in numerous pre-arbitration proceedings and arbitrations alike. Case highlights include representing the Republic of Lithuania in investment arbitration against Luigiterzo Bosca, the Italian investor, against Gazprom and the Fund for Protection of Investors’ Rights Abroad, the Russian investors, and against Olegs Roscins, the Latvian investor. Mr. Kasparavicius also acted for clients in commercial arbitrations under the ICC, SCC, or the Rules of Vilnius Court of Commercial Arbitration in Lithuania.

Mr. Kasparavicius also published numerous articles in English and Lithuanian on various investor-state arbitration topics. He also advised the Investors’ Forum, an independent association of foreign investors in Lithuania, to reform Lithuanian investment treaty regime following the famous Achmea judgement of the ECJ in 2020. In 2015 he obtained a Master of Law and Business from Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. He speaks English, Russian and has conversational skills in German and Polish.