Law Firm Sibincic Novak & Partners

Banking / Insurance/ M&A / Corporate and Commercial law / Capital markets / Cross-border transactions / Restructuring

Partner

Anja advises clients on civil, corporate, financial and IP law. With more than 15 years of experience in managerial and executive positions in companies and as a member of supervisory boards (Airport Ljubljana, d.d., Krka d.d.), she has gained in-depth legal and business knowledge in the areas of asset management, pension funds, financial and insurance law and corporate governance. Since 2018, Anja has been working as an attorney-at-law advising Slovenian and foreign clients on M&A transactions, corporate restructuring, corporate governance, insolvency matters, banking and insurance matters, as well as on other complex legal transactions.

Anja is an associate professor of civil and commercial law at the European Law Faculty of the New University in Ljubljana. She teaches corporate law, intellectual property law and law of obligations. She has been granted the status of an attorney – at – law specialist in civil and commercial law by the Slovenian Bar Association.

Anja is a court appointed interpreter for English language and also speaks Slovenian, French, German and Croatian.

She‘s authored and co-authored many expert articles and monographs in the field of company and insurance law, among others:

Joint stock company with one-tier management system (monograph), Publishing House of Nova univerza, Ljubljana, 2019 (with the author’s contributions by dr. Krešimir Puharič and Domen Romih). Business and the Protection of Human Rights, Comparative Legal Analysis of the Role and Competence of Slovenian Sovereign Holding d.d. in the Respect of Human Rights (monograph), Nova univerza Publishing House, Ljubljana, 2021 (co-authored with J. Letnar Černič and T. Rozman). Workers’ Representatives in Management and Supervisory Bodies of Companies: Legal Aspects with Examples from Court and Business Practice (monograph), Uradni list, Ljubljana, 2022 (co-authored with V. Franca). Board-level employee representative independence: myth or reality? Theoretical analysis and empirical research – the case for Slovenia, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics has the following publication, Volume 92, Issue 4, December 2021, str. 569–585 (co-authored with V. Franca). Social Responsibility and management of the state capital investments; For Social Responsibility – collection of papers, Faculty of Social Sciences, Ljubljana, 2018. Normative regulation of corporate governance, Dignitas, No. 73–74, 2017. The rules and procedures of state-owned enterprises (SOE) management by the Slovenian Sovereign Holding, Podjetje in delo, 2016. Guidebook on the rights from pension and disability insurance in Slovenia (chapter on supplementary and occupational pension schemes), Institute for Labour Law at the Law faculty of the University of Ljubljana, 2013. Insurance Law (M. Pavliha, S. Simoniti), GV Založba, 2007 (chapter on supplementary pension schemes).

Slovene, English, French, German, Serbian, Croatian

Slovenian Bar Association

Slovenian Directors Association

University of Ljubljana, Law Faculty (B.A.)

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts (B.A.)

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics (MBA, B.A.)

New University, European Law Faculty (PH.D.)

McGill University (Montreal, Canada) (LL.M.)