IFLR1000 firm rankings and lawyer ratings for 2020 have been published. BDK Advokati remains Tier 1 law firm in Serbia and in Montenegro in both areas ranked by IFLR1000 in these jurisdictions – Financial and corporate and Project development. BDK Advokati is also ranked in Bosnia and Herzegovina for those two practice areas. Once again […]
BDK partner Luka Popović spoke about challenges facing the private sector in enforcement of international contracts during a judicial workshop on enforcement of international sales contracts. The workshop was organized on 24-25 October by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), and the U.S. Embassy in Montenegro. The workshop is part of […]
MediGroup has acquired 100% of the shares in Zdravo Med, healthcare clinic based in Subotica, while its human laboratory division MediLab has opened its laboratories in the city of Niš. MediGroup is the largest private healthcare provider in Serbia with 15 facilities across key cities, providing inpatient, outpatient, lab, IVF, ophthalmology and cosmetology services. Zdravo […]
BDK Advokati has contributed the Serbia chapter in the 2020 edition of Getting the Deal Through – Data Protection & Privacy (August 2019). The chapter presents the regulatory frameworks both under the data protection law from 2008 and under the law which became applicable in August 2019. The exposition of the two laws allows the […]
Central and Eastern European Gaming Conference, held in September this year in Budapest, gathered a prominent group of stakeholders in the gaming sector to discuss the most recent business and legal developments in the industry across the European markets. BDK partner Luka Popović spoke at the Balkans panel about legislative changes in the Montenegrin and […]
For the second consecutive time, CEE Legal matters organized Balkan GC Summit in Belgrade. The event gathered general counsels, compliance officers and lawyers from the region to discuss vibrant topics in the legal industry. BDK Advokati’s partner Bogdan Ivanišević held a presentation in which he addressed the issue of misunderstandings that often occur between companies […]
The new legislation on liquidation proceedings in Republika Srpska (Zakon o likvidacionom postupku “Official Gazette of Republika Srpska”, no. 82/19) (“New LPA“) comes into force on 12 October 2019. It introduces new, simplified, form of voluntary liquidation of companies and other business entities, and detailed rules on liquidation of assets and claims settlement in ordinary […]
Financing agreements for the waste management public-private partnership project in Vinča, Belgrade, were signed last week. The project has total investment size estimated at approximately EUR 350 million, envisaged to be financed by equity and non-recourse debt from IFIs – EBRD, IFC and OeEB. This is one of the largest and certainly the most complex […]
On 23 September 2019, the Serbian Prime Minister announced a reform of taxation of self-employed sole entrepreneurs. The new rules are supposed to become effective as of 1 January 2020. If enacted in the present form, they will affect sole entrepreneurs who are engaged on service contracts exclusively with one employer. The largest effect will […]
