Divjak Topic Bahtijarevic & Krka

The firm: Divjak Topic Bahtijarevic & Krka Law Firm is a top-tier corporate and commercial legal service provider to international and Croatian corporations in the Republic of Croatia. Whether it is in established or emerging industries, its lawyers offer an integral insight into the local business environment. It has been successfully advising national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments in both everyday business and sophisticated strategic transactions for almost 30 years.

Workforce: The firm’s close to 30 law experts allow it to tailor-assemble a team based on client’s needs, unmatched by competitors both in numbers and qualifications.

Market position and awards: DTB’s highly ranked market position is reflected by its constant awards and high rankings in a number of practice areas by several famous independent legal directories, including corporate and commercial, M&A, banking and finance, real estate, competition and antitrust, employment, dispute resolution, energy, infrastructure, IP and transport law.

DTB’s team is one of the Croatia’s strongest corporate and transactional legal teams offering business-friendly solutions and competitive fee structures, with the highest professional standards. Moreover, DTB won three Deal of the Year Awards for Croatia by CEE Legal Matters for the most notable M&A transactions.

Languages: Besides Croatian, its lawyers are fluent in, court interpreters for, or native speakers of English, German, Russian, Ukrainian and Italian.

Areas of practice: The firm’s lawyers are organised into more than ten diversified practice groups, allowing it to observe the 24-hour response policy when getting in touch with clients and providing them with up-to-date advice.

Its hallmark practices are
Commercial and corporate: experienced in major local and cross-border transactions, the firm’s corporate and commercial practice group guides clients through commercial contracts, corporate governance, general company advice, joint ventures and many more.

Mergers and acquisitions: the firm’s dedicated M&A lawyers advise clients on public and private M&A transactions across many different industries and in single and multijurisdictional deals. The team has been engaged in some of the most complex M&A transactions in Croatia.

Banking and finance: the firm’s banking and finance experts guide its clients through the full range of regulatory and compliance issues, as well as in sophisticated transactions.

Energy: having represented clients in the power, oil, gas and renewable energy sectors, the firm has a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the legal issues that are most important to their continued success.

Real estate and project finance: DTB has exceptional experience and knowledge in representing clients in the most complicated and demanding real estate transactions and most noteworthy infrastructure and energy projects in Croatia. The firm’s clients have included leading developers and investment companies from Europe and the US.

Competition and antitrust: the team’s engagements include successful defence in various cases before the competent bodies, including defence of alleged cartel, alleged abuse of dominance position, proposal for commitments, leniency application etc., as well as various day-to-day competition law advising. Inter-department co-operation is particularly active in terms of merger clearances for M&A transactions.

IP and TMT: DTB’s IP & TMT practice group has vast experience and expertise in the fields such as e-commerce, privacy and data protection, consumer protection, advertising, etc., allowing the IP & TMT team to offer clients a one-stop-shop support in sophisticated and complex matters and transactions, starting at the consulting and preparatory stage, followed by competent, thorough and expeditious execution, until final results are produced to the clients’ utmost satisfaction.

In a nutshell, DTB offers its clients a steady presence of almost 30 years, nearly 30 fee-earners, multilingual competence as well as regional presence through tightly related professional networks.