Gecić Law is the foremost innovative full-service law firm in South-Eastern Europe, which redefines a law firm’s role in a dynamic emerging regional market of 150 million people. We build long-term relationships with clients and support their business success by delivering a fresh perspective and meaningful solutions. Through our exclusive membership in two elite global alliances, TerraLex and TAGLaw, our services extend across the globe to serve our clients’ needs wherever they may be. In a constantly changing environment, we apply a bespoke approach to resolving the most complex legal challenges across practices, industries, and jurisdictions, creating opportunities and exceptional results for our clients.
Our firm has continuously been recognized by the leading global directories, including as a “Top Tier” firm by The Legal 500, ranked among the leaders by Chambers and Partners, as a “Recommended Firm” by Benchmark Litigation, and our leading lawyers recognized by Who’s Who Legal. We are the proud winner of The Lawyer European Awards for the Law Firm of the Year: South Eastern Europe 2021 and Law Firm of the Year: Eastern Europe and the Balkans 2020. In 2019, Gecić Law was “Highly Commended” as Continental Europe’s second-best antitrust / competition team. It was also shortlisted as one of the six best firms in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
The firm was founded in 2015 by leading independent legal minds and industry professionals, united by a shared vision of a true corporate meritocracy dedicated to excellence in law practice. We nurture a forward-thinking mindset, collaboration, and corporate responsibility to create a better future for our clients and communities.
Our team members, with diverse backgrounds and international experiences, come from leading U.S. and European universities, including Harvard, Queen Mary University of London, University of Nottingham, Aix-Marseille University, Hofstra University, and the University of Derby.
Our team of extraordinarily well-trained and experienced individuals and their in-depth knowledge of the regional market and political environment builds our unique position to best address our clients’ most pressing needs.
Gecić Law Corporate / M&A team advises both domestic and international clients in high profile transactions including acquisitions, privatizations, joint ventures and strategic investments across various sectors and provides unique expertise in a wide range of corporate governance matters. A combination of legal expertise and profound understanding of industry-specific challenges ensures seamless and timely execution of each and every transaction, regardless of its complexity.
Members of our team advised and represented clients in some of the most challenging transactions in various industries including health care, aviation, pharmaceuticals, retail and consumer products, manufacturing, defense, banking and financial services, asset management companies, consumer finance, agribusiness, professional services, energy, telecommunications, technology, and real estate. By combining our signature multidisciplinary approach that brings together lawyers and professionals from various areas, we guarantee tailor-made, comprehensive transaction advice and execution for every client in an efficient and highly professional manner.
Our lawyers specialize in providing advice and support to clients on:
Through our well-established platform for dispute resolution, Gecić Law Litigation team combines regional expertise and personalized client service to even the most complex business disputes. With the support from attorneys and professionals from other practice areas and fields, our litigation lawyers draw upon the unique skills of their colleague to provide a comprehensive approach to problem solving and create added value for our clients that sets us apart from the competition. Our trial lawyers have a remarkable track record of success trying both civil and criminal cases in courts around the region.
This nexus of concrete trial experience and business-oriented approach enables us to handle most complex and novel cases in Serbia and the region.
Our Dispute Resolution team specializes in providing advice and support to clients on:
• Investment & Commercial Arbitration
• Banking & Finance Disputes
• Commercial & Contract Disputes
• Constitutional Law, ECHR & Human Rights
• Corporate/ M&A Disputes
• Debt Recovery
• Employment Disputes
• Energy Disputes
• Enforcement Proceedings
• Environmental Litigation
• Insurance Disputes
• Intellectual Property Disputes
• Mediation
• Public Law & Administrative Litigation
• Regulatory Proceedings
• Real Estate Litigation & Construction Disputes
• Restructuring & Insolvency
• White-Collar Defense & Corporate Offences
Gecić Law has one of the region’s largest immigration practices of any full-service law firm. Our immigration practice advises global and local businesses and businesspersons on immigration matters and compliance with Serbian (and regional) immigration legislation(s).
We design, implement, and manage global mobility projects with our clients where we take care of all the legal and administrative issues, from running regular immigration procedures to successfully executing the sophisticated immigration issues that arise in significant corporate transactions or reorganizations. With immigration and mobility lawyers across the region’s major business centers, we’ve been advising clients on immigration matters and have filed visa applications on behalf of major companies.
Focusing on immigration law, including visas, work permits, citizenships, and international mobility, our lawyers provide a combination of service and value, namely:
Today’s global business models include cross-border travel for employees and executives, and firms are subject to a complex web of immigration regulations. The diversified team at Gecić Law combines creativity and business pragmatism to find solutions for your immigration and global mobility problems. We help with work visa petitions in Serbia and other Western Balkans countries, immigration compliance for employers, worksite enforcement, M&A support, foreign visas, and work permits, and international employee transfers using effective case management, process improvement principles, and 24/7 web-based technology. To deliver a positive client experience, we work together across departments and use a hands-on approach to resolve even the most difficult situations.
Our Real Estate attorneys are well known for their industry leading skill and expertise in the area. We are recognized for our use of innovative structures and creative solutions to sophisticated and highly complex transactions, while providing our signature approach to excellence in service. With experience in Serbia and the Balkans, we have successfully represented clients in some of the most noteworthy and influential transactions in the region.
We counsel our clients on the acquisition and disposition of single assets and portfolios, distressed real estate and workouts, mortgage and mezzanine financing and restructuring, development and construction, leasing, joint ventures, and real estate litigation. As a cohesive team, together with other practices, including tax, restructuring/bankruptcy, and litigation, we ensure that all issues that could impact a transaction are properly and thoroughly addressed.
Our Real Estate team specializes in providing advice and support to clients on:
Gecić Law offers a full spectrum of employment-related services, with a focus on workplace policies and procedures, employment and termination agreements, compliance with local and international labor regulations, the Serbian Labor Act and international agreements. Our team’s successful track record ensures the highest standard for management and representation in labor matters.
We enable our clients to devise and implement comprehensive employment policies and procedures in order to maximize the value of their human capital. Our team’s experience includes drafting employment contracts, internal employment by-laws, management agreements, documentation for employment termination and non-compete agreements. In case of a breach of any of the aforementioned agreements, Gecić Law provides representation for clients facing union campaigns, collective bargaining negotiations and employment termination. Ultimately, we combine our in-depth legal knowledge and result-oriented approach with a well-established network with the relevant authorities to produce productive solutions for each client.
Our Labor team specializes in providing advice and support to clients on:
Increasing complexity and volatility in the international markets, combined with the inevitable integration of regional markets led even some of the biggest companies of yesterday in Serbia and the region to significant financial difficulties in the present. As a result, regional governments and private businesses are facing novel challenges brought about by increased competition and rapidly evolving market dynamics. Through a combination of our Restructuring & Insolvency team’s expertise, regulatory know-how and sector-specific expertise of our consultants we are able to provide tailored solutions to any client-facing tough choices.
Our Restructuring & Insolvency attorneys focus on providing cutting-edge solutions under the Serbian Insolvency Act. We combine the breadth of our firm’s legal practice with our expertise in the practice area to support client companies facing distress. To that extent, Gecić Law advises and represents debtor companies and their boards, banks, lenders and creditors as well as licensed insolvency practitioners. Our clients can expect exceptional risk analysis, superior project management skills and pragmatic advice.
Our Restructuring & Insolvency team specializes in providing advice and support to clients on::
Gecić Law’s multidisciplinary team of experienced defense lawyers and industry professionals provides world-class legal advice in White Collar. We handle complex investigations, criminal proceedings and enforcement actions, involving cross-border matters and actions of international organizations, on behalf of a broad array of companies, organizations and individuals. Our team helps clients navigate the dynamic regulatory environment in the Adria & Balkans region, at the intersection of the EU and accession jurisdictions. Our White Collar Defense & Investigation team provides innovative, pragmatic and comprehensive solutions, considering a case’s legal and reputational aspects. These have routinely included money laundering, corruption, corporate fraud and other matters. Our work is supported by distinctive business intelligence teams that provide context and deliver results. We also preventively advise businesses on compliance with the Balkans and the EU’s legal framework and criminal laws.
Our White Collar Defense & Investigations team specializes in providing advice and support to clients on:
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