From 22–26 September 2025, Mykolas Romeris University (MRU) Law School welcomed visiting professor Alain Pietrancosta, a renowned scholar from the Sorbonne Law School (University of Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne). His visit was supported by the Education Exchanges Support Foundation under the program for foreign lecturers invited to teach at Lithuanian higher education institutions (No. UD-2025-LT-2914).

Internationally Renowned Expert

Professor Alain Pietrancosta is a leading French scholar of business, corporate, financial, and securities law with more than 30 years of teaching and research experience. He is the founder and director of Sorbonne Master’s program on Financial Law. Pietrancosta helped establish several influential initiatives, including the Forum Europaeum on Corporate Boards (FECB), The Financial Law Research Center at the Sorbonne Law School; The Financial Law Association (ADFIN); Labex (Excellence Research Center) “Financial Regulation,” European Company Case Law (ECCL) journal, etc.

He has served or continues to serve as a member of high-level advisory bodies such as The Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris; The Legal High Advisory Committee for Corporate Law; The Issuers Committee of the French Financial Market Authority (AMF); The Corporate Governance Committee of MEDEF; The European Company Law Experts Group (ECLE); The Paris Europlace Legal Committee. He is also a Research Associate at the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and founder-director of the Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier – Corporate Finance and Capital Markets Law Review. His extensive academic and professional engagements make him one of Europe’s foremost authorities on financial market regulation and corporate governance.

A Week Filled with Academic Discussions

During his week at MRU, he contributed to a rich academic program:

• Served on the dissertation defense committee for Tomas Stundys’ dissertation “Regulatory models concerning the attribution of duties and civil liability in groups of companies (and their value chain extensions)”.
• Delivered a lecture to MRU doctoral and master’s students on “The recent shift in European public company law, driven by the imperative to enhance the attractiveness of European financial markets.”
• Gave specialized lectures on corporate capital and securities markets to students of the Joint Master’s Program on European and International Business Law.
• Presented “Due Diligence Duties: the EU CS3D and the French and German Experiences” at the Supreme Court of Lithuania for judges, their assistants, and MRU students.

New Horizons for the MRU Community

“I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Mykolas Romeris University and especially to Professor Virginijus Bitè for his exceptional welcome and remarkable sense of hospitality. My stay was not only an opportunity to discover a city and a country of great richness, but also to meet colleagues, PhD candidates, and students who were as brilliant as they were warm. I greatly appreciated the intense and stimulating academic exchanges that marked this week. Virginijus also had the generosity to introduce me to the cultural treasures of Vilnius, from the opera to the breathtaking heights of the television tower, making this visit truly unforgettable,” – Professor Alain Pietrancosta shared his impressions after the visit to MRU.

Professor Pietrancosta’s visit offered invaluable insights into current developments in European financial and corporate law. Students gained first-hand exposure to international legal perspectives and practical applications of complex regulatory issues. For the University, the visit strengthened academic ties with the Sorbonne Law School, opened new avenues for research collaboration, and enhanced MRU’s profile as a hub for high-level international legal scholarship.