Banking & Finance

NOOR Banking & Finance team has extensive expertise in wide scope of transactional and regulatory banking and finance matters, including but not limited to:

• Fintech and Crypto
• Financial Regulation
• AML / CTF / Sanctions Compliance
• Investment Funds
• Capital Markets
• Financing

Fintech and Crypto

NOOR advises banks, payment and electronic money institutions, other fintech companies and CASPs on structuring, documenting and launching regulated products and services in Lithuania and under EU financial services regulation.

NOOR supports clients through authorization processes and ongoing compliance, including governance and internal controls, outsourcing and third-party arrangements, risk assessments, and engagement with the Bank of Lithuania and other competent authorities.

Financial Regulation

NOOR advises financial institutions on Lithuanian and EU financial services regulation.

NOOR supports clients on complex operational compliance matters and the practical implementation of regulatory requirements. NOOR approach is highly hands-on: NOOR works closely with business, compliance and operations teams to understand how processes run in practice and to deliver practical, implementation-ready deliverables.

NOOR also represents clients in supervisory engagements – responses to information requests, inspections, findings and remediation measures – and supports engagement with the Bank of Lithuania and other competent authorities.

AML / CFT / Sanctions Compliance

NOOR advises financial institutions and other obliged entities on AML/CFT and sanctions compliance, regulatory investigations and remediation.

NOOR’s team takes an implementation-focused role and is often brought in for mandates that require risk assessment and practical implementation. NOOR prepares enterprise-wide and targeted money laundering, terrorist financing and sanctions risk assessments using quantitative and qualitative risk models. NOOR also develops and improves internal processes, conducts compliance assessments, supports internal and forensic investigations and supervisory inquiries, and advises on high-risk cases that require expert involvement.

Investment Funds

NOOR team has extensive expertise in representing the clients on asset management licensing matters (i.e. advice on most appropriate structure and required regulatory authorizations, preparation of authorization document package, assistance with filing and ongoing support in the process), investment fund structuring, fund documentation and regulatory permissions, ongoing compliance and regulatory support (including outsourced compliance function service provision). We also assist the investor side by advising clients on investments into funds, transfer of fund interests, implementation of investors’ rights and protection of their interests.

Capital Markets

NOOR team advises on public and private offerings and issues of equity and debt securities. Team’s support covers not only preparation for the offering and issue, conduct of the due diligence, offering documentation preparation and required regulatory and listing filings, but also advising the clients once listed and providing ongoing support on all regulatory and governance matters related to requirements for companies with listed instruments.

Financing

Representing lenders and borrowers on local and cross-border lending and other financing transactions. The team has extensive expertise in advising the clients on structuring, negotiating, documenting and perfecting the required regulatory formalities of the finance transactions, including related collateral packages.