TGS Baltic has successfully represented Orlen Lietuva before the Court of Appeal of Lithuania in a dispute regarding Polocktransneft Druzhba's claim for damages of over USD 70 million.
According to TGS Baltic, the dispute revolved around "the right of ownership of the technological oil that was in the oil pipeline in the territory of the Republic of Lithuania." According to the firm, "after the oil supply by the oil pipeline was stopped back in 2006 and ... it became apparent that it would not be resumed, in 2014 Orlen Lietuva used the oil left in the pipeline for its own needs as its property. Polocktransneft Druzhba sought to prove that this oil was its property from the very restoration of Independence of the Republic of Lithuania and the Republic of Belarus."
According to TGS Baltic, "the Court of Appeal of Lithuania ruled that when the Republic of Lithuania restored its Independence, any and all assets and property physically located in its territory became the national property of the Republic of Lithuania according to the acta jure imperii principle, including the technological oil in dispute."
The TGS Baltic team consisted of Partners Valentinas Mikelenas and Lina Daruliene and Senior Associates Dovile Armalyte and Tadas Varapnickas.
