Ms Jelena Gazivoda > JPM & Partners > Belgrade, Serbia > Lawyer Profile

JPM & Partners’s full-service corporate practice consistently advises on high-stakes M&A, corporate and commercial law, takeovers, and regulatory issues. The practice also leverages the expertise of its tax, public procurement, and data protection colleagues. A major proportion of the firm’s workload includes multi-jurisdictional transactions. Leading the corporate department, senior partner Nenad Popović is ‘the top choice for all corporate matters‘, while Jelena Gazivoda has longstanding experience in landmark transactions in Serbia and the SEE region. Other names to note are Jelena Stanković Lukić, Nikola Đorđević, Bojana Javorić and Janez Voncina.

With ‘excellent knowledge of Serbian legislation and regulation’, JPM & Partners’ banking and finance team has extensive experience in project finance, PPPs, NPLs, reorganisations, and restructurings. Co-leading the ‘responsive and accurate’ group at senior partner level, Jelena Gazivoda, who has ‘outstanding legal proficiency in a vast number of legal areas’, has expertise in complex financings and financial services-related deals; and Nenad Popović specialises in banking and finance, including strategic transactions and regulatory issues. The team also showcases banking and finance expert Nikola Poznanovic, who has ‘good knowledge of foreign exchange matters’.

For certain clients, JPM & Partners delivers ‘the best legal advice in Serbia’. Active across the energy, infrastructure, mining, and natural resources sectors, the team is experienced in major energy and natural resources projects, financings, PPPs, concessions, direct investments, and regulatory issues. Cross-border work is also a particular strength. With ‘outstanding legal proficiency’, senior partner Jelena Gazivoda is an energy and infrastructure specialist, while Nikola Đorđević routinely handles complex energy mandates and Ivan Petrović‘s wide-ranging expertise covers project development, financing and construction. Marko Mrdja and Marija Vukčević are other experienced practitioners.