On 15 December 2017, Ana Jankov and Bogdan Ivanišević hosted a meetup on flexible forms of work, in an avant-garde space of ICT Hub in downtown Belgrade. The event gathered HR and in-house lawyers from leading Serbian companies. Ana opened the event with an introduction about the ever-topical distinction between employee and self-employed status, and […]
BDK Advokati recently contributed the Serbia chapters to the Data Protection & Privacy and Trademarks editions of ‘Getting the Deal Through’, for the second consecutive year. The chapter in the Data Protection & Privacy publication was written by Bogdan Ivanišević and Milica Basta. The chapter is available for download here. Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd., Getting the Deal Through: Data Protection […]
Changes to tax laws in Serbia are not sufficiently transparent and predictable. Official proposals of tax laws amendments lack details and background of the tax policy objectives. In some cases changes proposed by the Government introduced taxation which is unnecessary and not rational (like in the case of withholding tax on services rendered by non-resident […]
“You last for as long as you work on your own improvement… We do not have the luxury of stop thriving“. Read full interview with our Managing Partner Tijana Kojović. “Colleagues who are open to learning new things and openly challenge the existing ones make us more original, more effective and more inspired“. Read full interview with our HR […]
Luka Popović, Partner in the BDK office in Montenegro, gave a presentation on the highlights of the Montenegrin legal framework of interest to foreign investors in infrastructure, real estate and hospitality sectors, at the second UK-Montenegro Trade and Investment Forum. The event, organized by the Developing Markets Association, was held in London on 26 October […]
Osnivački akt jednočlanog društva s ograničenom odgovornošću Obaveza notarske obrade osnivačkog akta kod jednočlanog društva s ograničenom odgovornošću zamjenjena je obavezom notarske ovjere potpisa osnivača na osnivačkom aktu. Osnivački ulog u društvo s ograničenom odgovornošću Minimalni novčani ulog u osnovni kapital društva s ograničenom odgovornošću smanjen je sa 2,000 KM (1,000 EUR) na nominalnih 1 […]
Increased threshold for mandatory takeover offer The percentage of voting shares held in the target company that triggers mandatory takeover offer is increased from 25% to 30% of total number of issued shares, excluding treasury shares. Exceptions from the obligation to launch takeover offer Additional exceptions from the obligations to launch a takeover offer are […]
The National Bank of Serbia amended its Decision on Transactions with Financial Derivatives (Odluka o obavljanju poslova sa finansijskim derivatima, “Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”, No. 85/2011) to allow Serbian resident legal entities to enter into cross-border transactions with non-deliverable commodity derivatives under the condition that the transactions are entered into for the […]
At the end of August this year, the Bosnian Data Protection Agency (“Agency”) made available to the public a decision rendered on 24 April 2017, which sheds light on two important issues concerning the so-called criminal background checks. The decision makes clear that, under Bosnian law, an employer may not lawfully require a job applicant or […]
