Construction & Real Estate /  Arbitration

Katarina is attorney at law with over twenty years of professional experience, specialized for Construction and Real Estate law and Dispute resolution.She spent first part of professional career in judiciary, acted for 9 years as a judge in Second municipal court in Belgrade, and First basic Court in Belgrade within that period. In her adjudication and arbitration practice she successfully implements years of judicial experience.

She is advising clients in numerous projects in areas of Real Estate, energy law and infrastructure and is specialised for Construction and Real estate law with focus on projects based on different types of FIDIC General Conditions of Contracts.In project development phase, she has valuable experience in implementation of legal and contractual requirements, from creation of legal strategies to negotiating FIDIC based contracts and other complex engineering and construction contracts, management of legal issues during the implementation of the projects and representation of the clients in international DAB, mediation or arbitration proceedings.

Katarina successfully, with merits completed post graduate studies on Panthéon-Assas University Paris II, „ International Construction Contracts” and holds a PgD diploma. This specific multi-disciplinary Postgraduate Diploma designed for experienced construction professionals and legal professionals from construction industry provides in depth knowledge of sound contracts management practices in relation to international construction contracts in both civil law and common law environments.Knowledge and experience in national jurisdictions and local laws in the Balkan region combined with international know-how and understanding of international models of construction contracts qualified Katarina for various expert positions on projects in the region.She is also a valuable member of the arbitration team practice – specifically providing support in procedural law matters.

Since 2017. she is appointed to National PRO List of experts of ACES – Association of consulting engineers of Serbia -National FIDIC Association in two expert categories:

List PRO 2- recommended lawyers for the field and List PRO 3 – recommended Adjudicators for DAB -Dispute Adjudication Boards.

Katarina is an active member of ACES Task group and and engaged as a trainer on local FIDIC trainings organized by ACES.She has full working capacity in English.

Member of the Belgrade Bar Appointed to National PRO List of experts, ACES – National FIDIC Association: List PRO 2- recommended lawyers, List PRO 3 – recommended Adjudicators for DAB

Attorney at law

Law Faculty at the University of Belgrade, BA

Panthéon-Assas University Paris II, PgD Diploma International Construction Contracts

International Contracts Training Courses – FIDIC Module 1,2,3 and 4