We are proud to announce that we continue to be ranked among top law firms in Serbia by reputable Legal 500. The 2018 edition of this directory ranks BDK Advokati as Band 1 firm in Serbia in Commercial, corporate and M&A, Competition, Dispute Resolution, Projects and energy and Real estate and construction. We are also ranked in Banking and finance, Employment and IP. Our two […]
BDK Advokati represented journalist Slobodan Georgiev in his successful claim against the publisher and the editor-in-chief of daily newspaper “Informer”. In a decision BDK Advokati received on 12 April 2018, the Belgrade Court of Appeals declared that the text and photography published in “Informer” violated Georgiev’s right to dignity. The court obliged both defendants to […]
The article Standard contractual clauses challenged by GDPR and scrutinized by CJEU, authored by BDK Advokati associate Marko Popović and published at Lexology website in February this year, has been the eighth most read Lexology article globally among those published in 2018 in the heavily trending field of data protection. This results from official Lexology […]
BDK Advokati has assisted the third largest global tractor producer Indian TAFE in the acquisition of the assets of IMT Beograd in bankruptcy, including the trademarks and the location for the development of a new production plant. IMT used to be a major tractor producer in the Balkans before 1990’s when its demise started. It […]
Partner Milan Dakić and BD Manager Vojislav Bajić discuss investment opportunities in the South-East Europe in the latest issue of Law Today.
BDK Advokati advised Société Générale, as agent, and a syndicate of commercial bank lenders in connection with a €3.05 billion credit facility provided to a subsidiary of PPF Group for the acquisition of, among other assets, 100 percent interests in Telenor d.o.o. Beograd (Serbia) and Telenor d.o.o. Podgorica (Montenegro). Allen and Overy acted as the […]
BDK Advokati has continued this year its support to the Belgrade Arbitration Conference and the Belgrade Pre Moot Competition. Our Managing Partner Tijana Kojović chaired the second panel at X Belgrade Arbitration Conference, devoted to the recent procedural developments. The panel members were James Menz, deputy secretary general and head of case management at the […]
A new State Aid Control Act (Zakon o kontroli državne pomoći) (“SACA“) was adopted in Montenegro on 14 February 2018., bringing significant institutional, substantive and procedural developments to the existing state aid framework. Below we provide a summary of the main changes. Competition Agency to take over state aid control State aid control and administration […]
Long-awaited amendments to the Insolvency Act, proposed back in October 2016, were finally adopted by the Serbian Parliament, and came into force on 25 December 2017. Improvement of the position of secured creditors and boost to fresh money The most important amendments concern improvement of the position of secured creditors, as well as creditors holding […]
By adopting on 14 December 2017 an authentic interpretation of Article 48 of Enforcement Act, the Serbian Parliament has put an end to a year-long ban on forced collection of purchased receivables created by the Appellate Commercial Court’s ill-considered interpretation of this statutory provision. The current Enforcement Act, applicable since July 2016, states in Article […]
