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Nerijus Zaleckas Becomes Head of Legal at Skycop

Nerijus Zaleckas Becomes Head of Legal at Skycop

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Lithuanian lawyer Nerijus Zaleckas has joined Skycop as Head of Legal.

According to a Skycop press release, "Skycop is a company, standing up for passengers and their rights in a fight against airline misbehavior towards flight refunds. The company’s global online platform offers hassle-free claim management for delayed, cancelled, or overbooked flights to passengers across the world. Skycop and its team of professionals with 10+ years of experience in aviation business, law, and credit management are keen on restoring the justice in airline-flyer relationship and getting what legitimately belongs to those deprived of their personal rights."

Before joining Skycop, Zaleckas worked for Cobalt, Deloitte, and Eversheds, specializing in both litigation and dispute management and corporate, commercial, competition, and EU and regulatory projects.

According to that Skycop press release, Zaleckas "mainly advised international companies in various projects ensuring effective compliance with applicable national and international rules. Nerijus has substantial experience in working with international financial, IT and technology, gambling, automotive, pharmaceutical, food, real estate and energy companies. During his practice he led litigation in such complex cases as disputes regarding deposit certificates, bonds and share issue of one of the Lithuanian banks as well as consulted such companies as Berlin Chemie Menarini Baltic, Statoil, Fortum and Reckitt Benckiser."

Nerijus studied and obtained Master's degrees from Lithuania (from the Mykolo Romerio University in 2006), the Netherlands (from the University of Amsterdam in 2006), and the UK (from the Queen Mary University of London in 2007).

“Nerijus Zaleckas, with its long standing legal experience, shall strengthen the company’s position in dealing with airlines under the Flight Compensation Regulation 261/2004," commented Skycop CEO Marius Stonkus. "His experience in leading complex legal projects will bring an added value to protecting air passenger rights as well as structuring our processes so passengers could receive compensation for their delayed, cancelled or overbooked flights as fast as possible."

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