GILD Investment Banking partners and directors manage the largest M&A team in the Baltics, in total 30 experienced professionals.
Šarūnas has worked in investment banking since 1997, when he joined the Equity Research Department of Hermis Finansai (Lithuanian investment bank merged with GILD in 2004). There he focused on stock market analysis, headed the research team from 1998 and later joined the corporate finance department. He has gained experience in numerous transactions, among them arranging all local currency bond issues for AB Lietuvos Dujos, the Lithuanian gas transmission and distribution company, and Lietuvos Energija, the Lithuanian national energy utility, and arranging the initial public offering of Agrowill Group on the Vilnius Stock Exchange. He gained wide experience in the banking sector by arranging bond issues for the Lithuanian banks Snoras, Ūkio and Šiaulių. Other major transactions include arranging a dual-track sale process of AB Lėvuo, a major apparel and home accessory retailer in Lithuania, advising AB Malsena in a bond issue and raising project financing to build the first Lithuanian wind power farm for UAB Vejų spektras. Šarūnas has a BA in Economics from the University of Vilnius. On behalf of the Lithuanian Investors Forum, he takes part in the working group advising the Lithuanian Ministry of Economy on the national investment promotion programme. Šarūnas heads the Capital Markets Group of GILD Bankers and co-manages the Investment Banking team in Lithuania. Besides initiating new transactions and new client contacts, he also focuses on public relations and general administration of the Lithuanian unit.