Education
- Master’s Degree in Law, Vilnius University
Career
Prior to joining Adon Legal, Robertas Grabys worked at COBALT and PwC Legal, and for the last few years at Ellex Valiūnas & Partners, where he specialized in money laundering and terrorist financing prevention, as well as in international sanctions regulation. He also has experience working for fintech start-up MoQ.
- Law firm Ellex Valiūnas & Partners
- Lawyer (2021-2023)
- Consultant (secondee) on international sanctions regulation, a Lithuania-based bank (2022)
- Law firm Norkus & Partners COBALT
- Associate (2017-2018, 2020 – 2021)
- Legal Assistant (2015-2017)
- Law firm PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Bukauskas & Partners
- Associate (2019-2020)
- MoQ (Mobilieji mokėjimai UAB)
- Lawyer/Data Protection Officer (2018-2019)
- Junior Associate/Data Protection Officer (2018)
Comments in media
- Changes to money laundering prevention regulation in the European Commission’s plans / Delfi /available at: https://www.delfi.lt/verslas/nuomones/robertas-grabys-europos-komisijos-planuose-pinigu-plovimo-prevencijos-reguliavimo-pokyciai-84364805
- Lithuania: Is the EU’s New Crowdfunding Regulation an Opportunity for Lithuania? / CEE Legal Matters / available at: https://ceelegalmatters.com/lithuania/15861-lithuania-is-the-eu-s-new-crowdfunding-regulation-an-opportunity-for-lithuania
Experience in regulatory matters
- Advised one of the largest consumer credit companies in Lithuania on consumer credit regulatory issues.
- Advised virtual currency exchanges on internal control procedures.
- Advised electronic money institutions on obtaining electronic money institution licenses.
- Advised a “buy now pay later” financial institution in the electronic money institution licensing process.
Experience in money laundering and terrorism financing prevention matters
- Advised various financial institutions (payment and electronic money institutions, credit institutions) on anti-money laundering issues, drafting and evaluating internal policies and procedures.
- Advised financial institutions on the development of procedures related to the supervision of intermediaries.
- Advised financial institutions on company risk assessment and the development of individual risk assessment models.
- Contributed to the legal due diligence of entities subject to AML/CFT requirements.
- Advised e-money institutions on AML/CFT issues in the licensing process.
- Advised virtual currency operators on the development of internal procedures related to the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing.
Experience in implementing international sanctions requirements
- Advised a Lithuania-based bank, on investigations of suspicious payments.
- Advised financial and credit institutions on the development of procedures to detect and prevent evasion of international sanctions requirements.
- Assisted in the preparation of international sanctions risk assessments for financial institutions.
- Advised industrial, logistics and wholesale companies on international sanctions compliance issues.
- Drafted procedures for the implementation of international sanctions requirements for a wide range of companies.
- Participated in legal due diligence checks on compliance with international sanctions.