Mr Nikola Poznanovic > JPM & Partners > Belgrade, Serbia > Lawyer Profile

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’.

Key areas of expertise for JPM & Partners‘ competition team, which is particularly focused on cross-border matters, are high-end international mergers and cartel investigations. Other notable specialisms include dawn raids, defence strategies for potential antitrust and damages claims, and restrictive agreements and individual exemptions. With ‘great experience in handling complex merger control procedures’, Nikola Poznanović leads the competition and antitrust department, which includes Bojana Javorić Mićović, who was promoted to partner in February 2023, and the ‘very responsive, practical and reliable’ Živko Simijonović. Luka Hajduković and Katarina Savic are are other names to note.