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Serbia

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Banking and finance

JPM & Partners advises lenders, investors and corporates on financing structures across project finance, PPPs, restructurings and regulatory matters, with a particular focus on transactions involving multiple jurisdictions. The practice is co-headed by Nenad Popovic, whose work spans complex financings and regulatory strategy, and Jelena Gazivoda, who is active in cross-border lending and structured arrangements, particularly in energy and infrastructure. Nikola Poznanovic also advises on finance matters connected to wider corporate and transactional mandates.
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Testimonials

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  • ‘JPM & Partners team is a team of great professionals, true experts, and people we always enjoy cooperating with. What makes them our first choice is their expertise, experience in working with us, dedication to our needs, and availability whenever needed for us, commercial angle of advice, high professional standard in doing work and treating all at the negotiation table, their flexibility, orientation for finding solutions, and finding an easy, lawful manner to resolve the matter.’
  • ‘All members of their team are highly professional, experienced, up to the level, they are practical and very engaged in finding solutions. Jelena Gazivoda leads JPM team on almost all the mandates we have with JPM. She is senior partner and a person of our trust in all senses. She is very experienced and highly professional, oriented towards finding solutions and very pragmatic. She is highly respected by all stakeholders on the market and is knnow also as a nice person to cooperate with. Her expertise, knowledge and experience go above all. She is equally great in negotiation and in drafting. Nikola Poznanovic is also a frequent team member, especially due to his expertise in FOREX matters and deep understanding of the financial market in Serbia. Marko Mrdja is also a member of core JPM team. He is learning fast, and he is a promising member of the JPM team. Working together with Jelena and Nikola, he is expanding his expertise and becoming specialised in several matters of our interest.’
  • ‘They try to understand the needs of the customer and to find legal, tailor-made solutions. Fast response to clients requests and legally correct.’
  • ‘They will never give wrong advice, always will check something before they say that's it and give a solution. Professional and competent attitude with integrity.’

Key clients

  • Gastrans
  • Victoria Group
  • China Shandong International
  • MK Group
  • Pacific Investment Management Company LLC
  • Port of Belgrade

Work highlights

Advised Cargill Financial Services International on the provision of a EUR 160m+ unsecured loan to Serbia’s majority state-owned telecommunications operator.
Advised Commerzbank, Germany, on cross-border guarantee arrangements under a revolving credit facility agreement involving a Serbian guarantor and governed by German law.
Advised a Yugorosgas, a Serbian energy sector client, on the structuring and implementation of a cross-border transactional framework designed to overcome significant regulatory and financial constraints affecting the trade and transmission of natural gas.
Practice head

Nenad Popovic; Jelena Gazivoda

Other key lawyers

Nikola Poznanovic; Marko Mrdja

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