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Ms Nedžida Salihović-Whalen

+387 33 944 610 nedzida.salihovic-whalen@cms-rrh.com View profile

Work Department

Corporate law, Acquisition, Banking and finance law, Real estate, Civil legislation, Labour law

Position

Nedžida Salihović-Whalen is CEE partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. She has over 20 years of experience in advising clients on corporate, M&A, commercial, banking and employment matters as well as experience in dispute resolution.

Nedzida is experienced in setting up corporate and business structures in Bosnia and Herzegovina and regularly advises clients on the regulatory and commercial environment under Bosnian law. She also represents clients in litigation.

Nedzida has an LLM from a US university and has been continuously selected as a leading lawyer in BiH.

Nedžida Salihović-Whalen was a member of several international legal working groups and took part in drafting laws regarding legal and economic reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is heavily involved in major banking and finance deals, both transactional and project-based work. Her involvement ranges from supervising the deals, to advising clients on particular aspects of the transactions.

Nedzida is an examiner of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Bar Exam Commission for commercial law for the last ten years.

Career

Legal Counsel of OSCE Provisional Election Commission, Sarajevo (1998 – 2001)

Secretary General of the Election Commission to BiH, Sarajevo (2001 – 2002)

DLA Piper Weiss-Tessbach, Sarajevo office, Head of the Sarajevo Office (2002-2009)

CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz, Sarajevo office, Local Partner (2009-2014).

CEE Partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (2015 – present)

Languages

Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian and English with a basic knowledge of Hungarian and French.

Memberships

Bar Association of FBiH

Member of the BiH Bar Exam Commission

Education

University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Law, Sarajevo (1978 -1983)

LLM from UCONN School of Law, CT, USA (2001)

Ministry of Justice – Notary Public Diploma (2009)