MIM Law

We assist investors, contractors, and subcontractors in negotiating and preparing all tender and/or public procurement documentation in complex infrastructure and energy-related projects.

Our construction projects-related services include extensive legal support in contract execution and risk management.

We act for clients developing or investing in large infrastructure projects, commercial and residential and mixed-use properties, manufacturing facilities, and other industrial assets.

Quick shifts in market conditions and regulations require prompt reactions from businesses so that they run smoothly. By offering a broad range of corporate law services, we can help you keep your legal needs on track, leaving you to focus on your core business operations.

Our transactional lawyers have honed their legal skills and knowledge while working on landmark domestic and cross-border mergers & acquisitions, large-scale privatisations, joint ventures, spin-offs, divestitures, and distressed-asset transactions across various industries.

Our multidisciplinary team has substantial experience advising clients on complex, high-value real estate, energy, renewables, and infrastructure transactions and projects. We have also developed particular sector expertise in aviation, gaming, pharmaceutical, FMCG, and the hospitality industry.

We represent public and private companies, financial institutions and organisations, private equity and investment funds, investors, and start-ups.

We help clients with:

• Company formation and winding-up
• Corporate changes and restructurings
• Directors’ duties and conflicts of interest
• Company administration and shareholder meetings
• Corporate governance advisory
• Regulatory compliance
• Corporate financing
• Capital increase
• Debt-to-equity conversions
• Related tax issues
• Public procurement process support
• Day-to-day legal support
• M&A transactions
• Due Diligence process
• Joint ventures
• Public-private partnerships (PPP)
• Private equity investments
• Greenfield and brownfield investments

With a dynamic shift in employee engagement trends and workplace design, getting your employment law foundations right is paramount for every successful organisation.

Considering that Serbia’s employment legislation remains quite formalistic and employee-centred, resolving contemporary employment issues requires a creative, comprehensive, and multidisciplinary approach, an area in which our lawyers are well versed.

We take a prudent approach when handling employee restructuring matters by carefully assessing the situation and mitigating all potential reputational and business risks for our clients.

Our clients operate in agribusiness, construction, infrastructure, real estate, pharmaceutical, telecom, media and IT, traditional and renewable energy sectors, etc.

Our services include:

• Employment contracts
• Termination documentation
• Compliance
• Incentives and benefit programs
• Internal employment policies and rulebooks
• Drafting and negotiating collective agreements
• Redundancies and restructurings
• Preventing and resolving all types of employment disputes
• Out-of-court settlements
• Executive appointments and severance
• Business immigration - work permits, residency permits
• Secondments
• Leasing of employees
• Support during labour inspection procedures
• Support during internal disciplinary procedures
• Whistleblowing, mobbing, discrimination issues advisory
• Employment tax-related issues

Our lawyers regularly help clients implement Pre-Packaged Reorganisation Plans (UPPR), acting for debtors, creditors, and buyers of distressed businesses or assets.

We are proud to be recognised in the market as a force to be reckoned with, successfully handling high-value, high-profile cases. Recognising the situation’s urgency, our experts guide companies through every step of recovery or insolvency procedures.

We support clients in:

• Buy /sales of distressed assets/ companies in insolvency cases
• Pre-Packaged Reorganisation Plans
• Insolvency avoidance advisory
• Representation in insolvency procedures
• Workouts strategies
• Debt for equity swaps
• Liquidations

Our lawyers represent domestic and international clients in complex and high-value litigation cases. We had the privilege of working on landmark cases impacting decisional practice in the region.

Being a litigation lawyer means much more than representation before the court; it also encompasses strategy planning, dispute avoidance and negotiations.

Our superior experience in commercial and investment arbitration proceedings makes us stand out from the crowd. We can proudly say that our law firm is the firm of choice for arbitration disputes involving regional companies across industry sectors, public enterprises, and State parties.

Our arbitration work, whether as counsel or arbitrators, has been governed by various arbitration rules, including ICC, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, SCAI, VIAC and rules of Permanent Arbitration at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Serbia.

Our team has a wealth of experience in injunction / interim measure proceedings, as well as in enforcement procedures.

We advise and represent clients in relation to:

• Commercial disputes
• Investment disputes
• Construction contracts (including FIDIC)
• Employment disputes
• Corporate disputes
• Energy and infrastructure
• Hospitality and leisure
• IP disputes
• Insurance
• Banking
• Pharmacy

Unfortunately, fraud, embezzlement, corruption, money laundering and tax evasion are commonplace in contemporary business.

Our team is well equipped to take swift action and decisively address any issue arising from various types of fraudulent behaviour, and mitigate related risks and damage.

Depending on the specifics of the case, we devise refined strategies, paying particular attention to handling all sensitive issues that might damage the client’s reputation.

Our clients are company management members, boards of directors and executives, and audit committees, whom we frequently advise on an array of preliminary investigation and investigation strategies.

We support clients in relation to:

• Multi-jurisdictional corporate crime
• Anti-corruption cases, and fraud defense
• Regulatory/compliance matters
• Foreign/domestic corrupt practices
• Procurement/government corruption
• Tax evasion
• Health and safety violations
• Internal investigations