Tijana is the founding and managing partner of BDK. Her legal background is diverse and she is active in the firm’s transactional, regulatory and dispute resolution work, managing complex projects and personally advising on strategic matters. She has a particularly outstanding expertise in international arbitration. She is a member of the Board of the Belgrade Arbitration Centre. 

Tijana holds an LLM and PhD in International Business Law from the Central European University in Budapest. She has published articles in international legal journals and publications on topics concerning arbitration, competition and commercial law. She is editor of BDK’s competition law blog.

At the beginning of her career, Tijana worked for major international law firm Allen & Overy in Budapest and London, and for Austrian law firm Wolf Theiss.

Tijana is fluent in Serbian and English, and conversant in French.

Tijana is the only Serbian lawyer ranked by Legal 500 as a leading individual in four practice areas: Banking and finance, Commercial, Corporate and M&A, Competition and Dispute Resolution. Chambers and Partners ranks Tijana as a Band 1 in Corporate/Commercial and Dispute Resolution, while IFLR1000 recognises her as a highly regarded lawyer in Serbia.