Proud to announce that we acted as local legal advisors to Aggreko on the Serbian aspects of Aggreko’s strategic acquisition of Resalta, a leading energy services provider in Central and Eastern Europe. BDK team was led by Dragoljub Cibulić and consisted of Dragoljub Sretenović, Marija Gligorević, Đorđe Zejak, Relja Radović, Anja Gligorević and Petar Erić. […]
The Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration 2024 survey of the world’s leading arbitration lawyers recommends again our managing partner Tijana Kojović as a leading arbitration practitioner in Serbia. Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration recommendations are based on feedback made by colleagues and clients.
The controversial practice of shadow banning by social media platforms has been recently scrutinized for its compliance with GDPR by a court in Belgium. The Court of Appeal in Ghent in its decision of 3 June 2024 found that shadow banning practices used by Meta and imposed on Belgian right-wing politician Tom Vandendriessche were in […]
The Serbian Parliament has approved the amendments to the Payment Services Act (“PSA“) which are meant to mirror PSD2 and introduce open banking driven services to Serbian market. The amendments will begin to apply from 6 May 2025. We here summarize the most relevant changes. Who does these amendments affect? Firms that will be affected […]
The amendments to the Geological Research Act of Republika Srpska, sub-sovereign entity within Bosnia & Herzegovina, took effect on 24 July 2024. This Act regulates the conditions for exploration of mineral and other geological resources. The amendments aim at creating an encouraging legal framework for investment in geological research projects in Republika Srpska. Environmental impact […]
The Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition (“Commission“) has launched a short public consultation process on the drafts of four new block exemption regulations: (i) Regulation on categories of vertical agreements exempted from the prohibition of restrictive agreements (VBER); (ii) Regulation on categories of technology transfer agreements exempted from the prohibition of restrictive agreements; (iii) […]
BDK Advokati advised Seyfor, one of the largest software companies in Central Europe, on the acquisition of 70% of equity in the Serbian IT company M&I SYSTEMS,CO, a leader in software solutions development, digital transformation, and IT consulting. Seyfor is part of Sandberg Capital, a Slovak private equity firm focused on investing in smaller and […]
In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of Serbia invalidated a non-compete clause from an employment agreement because it prohibited the employee from entering into an employment relationship with the employer’s competitor, rather than from taking a specific job with a competitor. Facts of the case The decisions of the Serbian Supreme Court are succinct […]
On 6 March 2024, the Finnish Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman (“ODPO“) issued a decision against Verkkokauppa.com Oyj (“Verkkokauppa“), a company that sells electronics and other goods online and in stores. ODPO found that Verkkokauppa was not compliant with the GDPR because it required online customers to create accounts, and stored the personal data […]
