The 2016 edition of Legal 500 ranks BDK Advokati as Tier 1 Serbian firm in: Commercial, corporate and M&A; Competition; and Real estate and construction. The firm is ranked in Tier 2 in the newly introduced Banking and finance category. The firm’s Intellectual property practice is also ranked. BDK Advokati is also ranked in Montenegro […]
BDK Advokati announces the promotion of Marija Doci to Senior Associate in Corporate and M&A Team. Marija started with our firm in 2011 as a legal trainee, and qualified as a lawyer in 2013. She is a seasoned corporate lawyer with five years of relevant experience. She will continue to service clients on corporate matters […]
Special report published by Financial Times focusing on real estate development in Central and Eastern Europe (www.ft.com/intl/reports/cee-property) quotes Dragoljub Cibulić, BDK partner and head of real estate. The report underlines optimistic atmosphere among property developers in CEE and increased interest in the region from the Asian and South African investors. The article is available at […]
BDK Advokati has advised Net Holding, a Turkish company operating in real estate, tourism and gaming industries, on the management agreements to operate two casinos in Montenegro – Casino Montenegro (Podgorica) and Casino Avala (Budva). The agreements were signed in December 2015 and the closing was in January and March 2016, respectively. BDK team was […]
The new Decree on Attracting Investments* (“Incentives Decree“) offers to green-field and brown-field investors a new set of incentives in the form of non-repayable grants. Incentives are available in support of investments in the production sector (with the exception of certain excluded industries) and in electronically provided, export-oriented services. Investment in the production sector is […]
The Serbian Commission for the Protection of Competition (“Commission“) on 28 January 2016 imposed fines for resale price maintenance (“RPM“) on a supplier of electronic cigarettes and e-liquids, Umbrella Corporation Ltd (“Supplier“), and two of its retail distributers. The smoking gun was a clause in a template agreement prohibiting the distributor from setting a resale price lower […]
The latest Chambers Global review again ranks BDK a Band 1 firm in both Serbia and Montenegro. Tijana Kojović, Vladimir Dašić, Dragoljub Cibulić and Luka Popović are ranked as individuals. The editorial is available here.
BDK’s Partner Bogdan Ivanišević and Associate Marko Popović published an article in IPPro The Internet issue 86 (Conference Special). The article, entitled “Almost a photo finish”, reviews the recent squabble about copyright protection in Serbia for ‘routinely created photos’. You can read the article here. IPPro The Internet is a fortnightly IP news magazine published […]
Stefan Golubović, associate in BDK dispute resolution department, gave a presentation on Impact of Insolvency on Arbitration Proceedings at VIII Belgrade Arbitration Conference (see Conference Program). Stefan analysed the EU Regulation on Insolvency proceedings and the challenges it presents in the context of arbitration.
In the face of the growing public deficits, tax authorities around the globe have made the regulation and enforcement of transfer pricing legislation and the underlying arm’s length principle a top priority. In Serbia, the first transfer pricing rules have been introduced in 1991. However, the actual application of the transfer pricing legislation is starting […]
