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 among the leading female transactional experts, according to the 2020 edition of IFLR1000 Women Leaders. She 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. Same directory also ranks Tijana for Banking & Finance and Competition/Antitrust practice areas.
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The first recovery order since the enactment of the Serbian State Aid Control Act was issued on 1 November 2021. It directs the Ministry of Finance to recover from the Serbian subsidiary of the Italian shoe-maker Geox a total of approximately RSD 414 million (approx. EUR 3.5 million), with (...)
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The National Assembly of Serbia has recently passed the amendments to the Criminal Code. One of the amendments revamps the provisions on criminalization of cartels. New Article 229 of the Criminal Code reads: Whoever within a market undertaking enters into a restrictive agreement to fix (...)
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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 (...)
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A new decree on the content of merger notification (“Merger Decree“) is effective in Serbia from today, 2 February 2016. Our readers may remember that we blogged on this topic when the draft decree was out for comments. Templates for both long-form and short-form merger notifications are already (...)
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The Serbian Commission for the Protection of Competition (“Commission“) terminated on 15 May 2019 an investigation initiated in November 2015 against Philip Morris, JT International, British American Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco for allegedly having entered into a restrictive agreement in the (...)
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The Montenegrin competition authority rendered on 24 July 2015 a decision finding that two insurance companies, Lovćen osiguranje (member of Triglav group) and Sava osiguranje had concluded three illegal restrictive agreements on the market of non-life insurance. The first affected agreement is (...)
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The Serbian Commission for protection of Competition has circulated to the legal community for comments its proposal of a new decree on the content of merger notification (“Draft Merger Decree“). I will not discuss all proposed changes and shortcomings of the new draft but will focus on major (...)
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The Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition has announced on its website that in the second week of July it had conducted its first dawn raid on several locations in Belgrade. The coordinated dawn raids were made within an investigation related to “distribution of e-cigarettes and (...)
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In my last post, I reported on the on-going investigation into the 2012 acquisition of a 50% stake in the publishing house Politika newspapers and magazines. The buyer of a 50% stake from the well-known German publisher WAZ was a then unknown, formally Russian, company East Media Group. The (...)
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In a previous post, we wrote about the market test carried out by the Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition in relation to the commitments proposal by Telekom Srbije made in a probe involving the allegations of abuse of dominance. On 14 November, the Commission adopted all of the (...)
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Serbian Commission for Protection of Competition initiated ex officio assessment of non-notified concentration arising from the 2012 acquisition of a 50% stake in “Politika newspapers and magazines”, a publisher of the oldest Serbian daily “Politika” and various other magazines, by the company East (...)
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The Government of Montenegro has adopted four block exemption decrees, two in the sphere of vertical agreements (general exemption decree and exemption for vertical agreements in the motor vehicle sector) and two applicable to horizontal agreements (specialization agreements and research and (...)
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The 2009 Serbian Law on Protection of Competition is undergoing an overhaul. The first draft of the amendments, prepared jointly by the Ministry of Trade and the Commission for Protection of Competition, has been submitted for public debate. The initial round of consultations was held on 10 (...)
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In Ordem dos Técnicos Oficiais de Contas v Autoridade da Concorrência(judgment of 28 February 2013), the Court of Justice of the European Union weighed in on the issue whether a regulatory activity of a statutory professional association was an economic activity subject to assessment under (...)
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court) handed down a judgment on 14th December 2012 in Nexans v Commission case concerning the power of the Commission to conduct dawn raids. The judgment confirmed that the Commission does not have the power to conduct “fishing expeditions” (...)
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