Matija Vojnović > Moravcevic Vojnovic and Partners in cooperation with Schoenherr > Belgrade, Serbia > Lawyer Profile

Recent mandates for Moravcevic Vojnovic and Partners in cooperation with Schoenherr‘s corporate and commercial practice include a plethora of private M&A deals, with the group also being active in energy transactions. An M&A adviser to strategic investors and private equity firms, Matija Vojnović heads the corporate and M&A practice alongside retail, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, telecoms and automotive sector specialist, Luka Lopičić. The team also showcases telecoms and energy industry specialist Slaven Moravčević; M&A expert Vojimir Kurtić; ‘exceptional lawyer’ Jovan Barović; and Bojan Rajić, a specialist in contracts and investment incentives.

Moravcevic Vojnovic and Partners in cooperation with Schoenherr has an enviable track record in financings involving restructurings, private acquisitions of equity and assets, public takeovers, project finance, and property development. The firm’s ‘exceptional lawyers’ also advise on investment grade corporate lending, and are particularly experienced in cross-border structures. Practice leader Nikola Babić comes highly recommended, while corporate and M&A head Matija Vojnović is also a key banking and finance group member. The department further features Jelena Arsić and Marko Kostić, who ‘provide strong legal support’, and Jovan Barović and Vojimir Kurtić.

In addition to Moravcevic Vojnovic and Partners in cooperation with Schoenherr‘s commercial and investment treaty arbitration expertise, the group covers construction, insolvency, energy, and labour law-related disputes. Jelena Bezarević Pajić is ‘an outstanding arbitrator practitioner’; Nataša Lalatović Đorđević specialises in commercial and corporate litigation, and investment and commercial arbitrations; and Slaven Moravčević acts in investor-state and commercial arbitrations. The practice additionally features corporate and M&A head Matija Vojnović, who also assists with high-stakes arbitrations, and the ‘exceptionally bright’ Vanja Tica. Tanja Šumar and Dragana Nikolić are other experienced practitioners.

Moravcevic Vojnovic and Partners in cooperation with Schoenherr is consistently involved in infrastructure and energy projects across the CEE. The group’s coverage includes M&A deals, developments, PPPs, and regulatory matters, along with financings, public procurement, and disputes. Serbia, Montenegro and North Macedonia energy practice head, Miloš Laković, is a renewable energy project specialist; Slaven Moravčević is an international and domestic energy project expert; and Matija Vojnović‘s practice covers both M&A and projects. Other key figures are construction law expert Ivana Panić, and energy, infrastructure and regulatory practitioner Aleksandra Petrović.

Specialising in project financing in the energy sector, the banking, finance, and capital markets team at Moravcevic Vojnovic and Partners in cooperation with Schoenherr also advises on project investments and real estate financing. Matija Vojnovic leads the team, while Jelena Arsić‘s expertise includes advising national financial institutions, handling acquisition finance mandates, and capital markets. Minela Šehović and Ivana Panić are other key members of the team.

Jointly led by Matija Vojnovic and Luka Lopičić, the commercial, corporate, and M&A team at Moravcevic Vojnovic and Partners in cooperation with Schoenherr has extensive expertise in project related work, particularly in government-related areas including PPPs, energy related disputes, and privatisation. The team also has key strengths in corporate restructurings, particularly in consumer gods, pharma, and the automotive sector across the CEE region, while advising on share sales and general acquisitions. Advising both international and regional clients on market entry, Minela Šehović also handles shares acquisitions for energy consulting and IT companies and public procurement. Bojan Rajic is another key member of the team, with experience in financings and advisory work regarding regulated industry.

The real estate, projects, and energy team at Moravcevic Vojnovic and Partners in cooperation with Schoenherr is led by Matija Vojnovic, advising on construction, financing, and corporate matters relating to solar power plant projects, buy outs of minority shares in the lithium mining industry, among other significant renewable energy projects. Minela Šehović advises on inbound and cross-border energy companies in their market entry and general corporate work, as well as work related to merger control proceedings, with a focus on obtaining merger clearances. Another key member of the team is Bojan Rajic, whose expertise includes advising a joint venture between power utility companies and advising a public body borrower on the development of a hydropower plant project.