Katarina Savić
JPM & PartnersJPM & Partners is ‘a go-to law firm for global deals that require Serbian merger control filings’. The practice fields specialists in international mergers, as well as multi-jurisdictional cartel investigations, and restrictive agreements and individual exemptions. It also assists clients with compliance programmes, dawn raids and defence-side antitrust and damages claims. Competition and antitrust head Nikola Poznanović is ’very experienced in merger control work’, while Bojana Javorić Mićović's broad workload covers competition and antitrust mandates. Katarina Savić, Katarina Milić and Luka Hajduković and other experienced practitioners. Zivko Simijonović recently departed.
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Testimonials
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‘The JPM competition team is very approachable, and is able to blend the legal needs and commercial imperatives of clients seamlessly.’
‘JPM is a go-to law firm for global deals that require Serbian merger control filings.’
‘The team is quick, precise and knowledgeable. Very pleasant to work with.’
‘Nikola Poznanović is very experienced in merger control work - very responsive, knows how to handle difficult cases, and has built a very good team around him.’
‘Nikola Poznanović is reliable and great at pivoting the team towards completing the required tasks successfully.’
‘Bojana Javorić Mićović is a really outstanding lawyer - dedicated and hard-working.’
- ‘Katarina Savić and Katarina Milić are very knowledgeable and very responsive, and give practical advice. Clients have a great working relationship with them. ’
- ‘Luka Hajduković - an excellent member of the team with a great work ethic and attention to detail.’
Key clients
- Big Bang doo Ljubljana
- Advance Capital Partners dd, SIS, kd
- SOLVIS doo
- Metabo Centar doo
- Viatris Healthcare
- XELLA
- Total Energies
- Assicurazioni Generali
- Gauselmann Group
- Noventiq Holding
- PatentCo
- National Alliance for Local Economic Development
- GiZ
- Pini Holding
- Dulux Group
- INTELLYA doo Beograd
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
- Mastercard
- AIK bank
- Banca Intesa
- Erste Bank
- Halkbanka
- OTP Bank
- Procredit Bank
- Raiffeisen Bank
- Unicredit Bank
- NLB Komercijalna Bank
- Messer SE & Co
- OMV Deutschland
- PepsiCo
- Toyota Tsusho Europe
Work highlights
- Advising Generali Investments Holding on the merger control procedure before the Serbian and Montenegrin competition authorities, regarding the acquisition of sole control over Conning Holdings and its subsidiaries.
- Advised Knjaz Miloš and PepsiCo on the merger control procedures and individual restrictive agreement exemption, regarding the acquisition of control over the exclusive manufacturing, selling and distribution business of PepsiCo beverages Pepsi, Pepsi-Cola, Pepsi Max, Mirinda, Ivi, Evervess and 7UP.
- Advised Toyota Tsusho Europe and Messer SE & Co on the merger control procedure before the Serbian and Montenegrin competition authorities, regarding the creation of a fully-functional joint venture.
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Nikola Poznanović