Is Jonas Rasimas the man who can reform Lithuania’s Competition Council? Rachel Bull finds out

Competition specialists in Lithuania may be scarce, but a select group of lawyers has been working slowly and steadily for years to develop the country’s competition regime. Rachel Bull travelled to Vilnius to find out more

Lithuania has few competition specialists. The economy is small and competition law enforcement immature, so lawyers are not yet specialist. What's more, few companies run into competition problems on a regular basis. Yet awareness is growing. While competition credentials remain the exception rather than the norm, several Lithuanian firms have expanded their competition practices over the past year or so.

Lithuania built its competition regime on the shifting sands of inexperience and underfunding. It’s time to shore up these foundations, says Julius Cavendish.

Inaugural chairman of Lithuania's Competition Council, Rimantas Stanikunas has watched over Lithuanian competition law since its birth. Julius Cavendish met him recently.