Austėja Viederytė

Head of AML Group

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+370 5 212 40 84
Languages: Lithuanian, English

Practice areas

AML Compliance

Austėja Viederytė is the Head of AML Group at ECOVIS ProventusLaw. She has more than 10 years of experience in money laundering and terrorist financing prevention area and provides consultations in the fields of AML and FinTech.

During her career, Austėja worked for 3 different financial institutions – a global money remittance company, a bank, and an electronic money institution, where she gained extensive management and hands-on experience in daily AML processes. Austėja also worked for the Bank of Lithuania in AML / CTF team where she gained a deep understanding of the regulatory requirements, participated in Payments Council activities, delivered training, and consulted FinTech companies on various AML questions.

Austėja is a certified internal auditor, and she leads external AML audits for financial institutions. She also assists our clients to develop AML policies & procedures, helps them overcome daily AML challenges, delivers training for various financial market participants, and is actively engaged in product development for FinTechs.

Education

2008-2012
Bachelor of International Relations & Politics
Vilnius University, Institute of International Relations & Politics

Awards and recognitions

Knowledge without experience is of little use. Therefore we are proud of having our own valuable experience to share with you.

Clear focus on Fintech market is very well expressed in hassle-free communication and efficient services delivery. While other legal firms may take longer time to dig deeper into the requested specifics, Ecovis team is always able to understand nature of problematics.

Inga Karulaitytė was recognised as Highly Regarded lawyer in Banking and finance by IFLR1000 2019 and 2020 rankings.

ECOVIS Proventuslaw was ranked in Chambers Europe Ranking 2019, 2020, 2021 and Chambers FinTech 2020, 2021, 2022.

When choosing a law firm that would go through the entire licensing process with us as a company which aims to become an electronic money institution, there was no doubt that we should co-operate with ECOVIS.

ll company employees with whom we are in connection are highly skilled professionals and they clearly understand our tasks and the goals we are trying to achieve. The actual service is of a high standard and the company is always willing to go the “extra mile” to make everything perfect.

Loreta Andziulytė is a partner who can offer clients her knowledge in TMT, data protection, bankruptcy, restructuring, corporate governance and financial regulatory affairs. Her knowledge is reflected in her precise, qualitative and comprehensive documents and consultants.

Ecovis has a dedicated employment team, which always takes care of the clients’ needs and tries to find the best solution. It doesn’t matter on which side they have to be – on the employee or the employer, Ecovis will ensure that the solution will be found.

Ecovis ProventusLaw is best known in Lithuania for its banking work, where it regularly completes fintech-related deals. They are very good at adapting quickly.