Rokas Jankus

Experience

Rokas Jankus is a partner at Motieka & Audzevičius with over a decade of experience in venture capital, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and private equity. He specializes in dealing with complex transactions and legal matters related to these fields.

Specialty

His expertise lies in M&A, venture capital, and private equity, with a focus on sectors such as technology, renewable energy, e-commerce, and aviation.

• Rokas is recognised as a Next Generation Partner in Corporate/Commercial by The Legal 500 for 2025 and as a Band 4 expert in this field by Chambers Europe 2025. He is also among the most active M&A lawyers in Lithuania by deal count from 2005 to 2025 YTD, according to Mergermarket. He has worked on multiple transactions that were shortlisted for Deal of the Year in Lithuania by CEE Legal Matters (in 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024).
• Motieka & Audzevičius, where Rokas Jankus is a Partner and Head of the M&A team, was ranked Band 2 in Corporate/Commercial by Legal 500 in 2025 and Band 3 in Corporate/Commercial by Chambers Europe in 2025, with Jankus cited as a key figure in the firm’s M&A practice. 
• Rokas has a passion for the technology companies and entities responsible for creating an advanced, sustainable, and exciting future. Rokas led the largest-ever Lithuanian-technology company exit – the sale of MailerLite to Polish public entity Vercom – and he helped ed-tech company Turing College obtain the first-ever investment into a Lithuanian start-up by prestigious American technology accelerator Y Combinator. He assisted laser-technology company Brolis Semiconductors on multiple matters related to its creation of semiconductor-based breakthrough technologies in the defence and medical sectors, and he participated in the financing and buy-out rounds of web-hosting company Hostinger that were led by Tesonet and Brainweb, as well as the raising of funds by gaming marketplace Eneba from InReach Ventures, also Satalia’s acquisition of Data Dog.
• He is well-respected by the largest local players in the market. Rokas was the lead lawyer in the acquisition of the remaining shares of Vilniaus Prekyba (the largest enterprise in Lithuania) by the majority shareholder Bertona Holdings Limited, in the process ending several long-standing disputes (in a transaction which involved, in part, the largest-ever damages award ordered against a natural person in Lithuania). In addition, Rokas played a key role in the merger of the Linas Agro Group and Kauno Grūdai – the two largest Lithuanian agricultural groups. Finally, he led the acquisition of e-commerce platform 1A by Kesko Senukai Digital.
• Rokas Jankus is a proud alumni of Northwestern University, IE Business School, King’s College London and Vilnius University.