The Legal 500

Within Corporate, M&A and privatisation, Karanovic & Nikolic is a first tier firm,

Karanovic & Nikolic continues to go from strength to strength, recognised by clients as being ‘amongst the top three firms in Serbia who can go the whole way for international clients on privatisations’. As the largest commercial law firm in Serbia, at 65 lawyers, it focuses on M&A, privatisations, banking and project finance, real estate and construction matters. Dragan Karanovic is ‘a very good corporate and M&A lawyer’, who is regularly referred work by major international law firms. Fellow founding partner Dejan Nikolic has an ‘enviable reputation’ gained on energy infrastructure transactions. An area of expansion has been in competition law, where the firm’s clients, which include Philip Morris International, Merrill Lynch and Holcim, who also regularly instruct the firm on corporate matters, were advised on various aspects of competition law.

Within Real estate, Karanovic & Nikolic is a first tier firm,

Partner Milos Vuckovic leads the dedicated real estate team at Karanovic & Nikolic, which stands out for the strength and depth of its practice and client base. Clients themselves have labelled the firm’s lawyers ‘driven’, ‘responsive’ and ‘accommodating’. Key mandates include advice to Airport City Belgrade on their 120,000sqm commercial and residential development, and to Greek construction giant Lamda Holdings on a potential acquisition of land in Belgrade. Another specialisation is in advice to finance houses including Merrill Lynch and EBRD on property finance.