Prica & Partners is a top-ranked, independent commercial law firm, with one of the longest traditions in Serbia and the region. Widely regarded as a leading provider of business law services, Prica & Partners offers a full-service spectrum of legal services and provides clients with specialist expertise across all areas of business law. The firm boasts over twenty legal specialists and is organised as a true partnership. Our approach is to provide in-depth professional analysis, comprehensive business law services and an integrated team approach. We are committed to our values of the highest professional integrity, mutual trust and respect and making straightforward and customised business solutions to best serve the needs of our clients.
In the area of corporate law, no Serbian law firm has more experience than we do. We provide expert advice on all types of corporate law issues. Our team supports clients throughout their most complex business transactions. By combining knowledge and rich experience, we help organisations make the right decisions to support their business strategies.
We represent both Serbian and international companies on all types of corporate law issues, including corporate and commercial transactions, incorporation matters, contract drafting and review, corporate governance issues, shareholder matters, capital transactions, restructuring and divestments. Our cohesive team of experts works closely with ancillary practices to offer our clients a 360-degree view of business risks and opportunities and to provide clients with pragmatic and innovative solutions to complex situations.
Our rich history and long tradition means that our firm has been involved in numerous ground-breaking transactions. Having advised on many market firsts, our firm has helped transform the Serbian market into a modern and attractive business environment for foreign investment. We advise corporates, private equity investors and venture capitalists on complex public and private transactions, acquisitions and business transfers. We offer expeditious and efficient project management for strategic acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and public bids. Our team handled the first privatisation to take place in Serbia and we were subsequently involved in most of the major privatisations to take place in our market. Our clients span across both the public and private sectors and represent the entire spectrum of industry sectors, including financial services, private equity, telecommunications, energy, media, technology and hospitality.
Our team is able to support the regional needs of our clients through our membership in the regional network Lawyers & Friends – SE European Legal Network. We are able to offer support in the cross-border requirements of any transaction and to coordinate the regional intricacies of corporate projects.
Our dispute resolution practice has a strong reputation for the effective resolution of corporate disputes. Our team has deep experience and extensive expertise in international and domestic arbitration, corporate litigation and cross-border disputes.
It is always preferable to resolve disputes out-of-court, however when court is unavoidable, our team of litigation, arbitration and sector specialists provides unrivalled guidance on all types of commercial disputes. We always strive to give our clients solution-oriented advice that will produce the most favourable outcome for their business.
Our legal specialists particularly focus on international arbitration. We handle ICC, UNCITRAL and LCIA arbitrations and have successfully represented clients before some of the main international and domestic arbitration institutions and ad hoc tribunals. We represent leading corporates, states and public enterprises in some of the most complex and high-profile disputes in our market. Our team has a proven track-record and unrivalled, long-standing experience.
We have a team of experienced litigators that is equipped to handle the most complex and paper-heavy disputes. We represent domestic and international companies and authorities across various industry sectors, including finance, real estate, technology, energy, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. We take a commercial approach to the resolution of disputes and work swiftly to familiarise ourselves with complex facts and the economic and technical nature of our clients’ business. We manage the entire dispute process, from risk management and assessment to the legal position of our client, the claim, correspondence and negotiations to enforcement. We also have substantial experience handling extremely sensitive enforcements of foreign judgements and arbitral awards in Serbia.
Our skilled team of litigators work with ancillary practices to offer multi-disciplinary support on labour disputes, competition litigation, distressed transactions, IP-related disputes and tax disputes. With specialists in all areas of law, we are able to provide outstanding commercial legal service. Our firm is a member of Newton Arbitration, an international arbitration think tank and professional resource for arbitration professionals. We also maintain strategic of counsel relationships with the top criminal lawyers in Serbia to support our clients’ needs in corporate crime and white-collar matters.
Workforce issues are some of the most complex and important matters facing any organisation as they can impact productivity and undermine workplace culture. Our employment team is well-known for providing practical advice and top-notch service. We advise on employment issues arising from acquisitions, the establishment or termination of employment, restructuring programmes, compensation policies, benefits packages, disputes, and the employment of foreign nationals. With many clients, we have an ongoing relationship and regularly assist with their daily employment issues.
We have extensive experience in tackling our clients’ complicated employment challenges. As a result, key executives and HR professionals rely on us to help them resolve workforce issues quickly, efficiently and sensitively. To help our clients stay on top of changing legislation and to ensure compliant behaviour in their employees, we regularly work with clients to provide in-house training and seminars on labour law-related matters.
Drawing from in-depth knowledge of domestic employment regulations, we help our clients manage their most sensitive matters, including drafting and negotiating employment agreements, drafting employment policies and procedures such as incentive programmes and workplace harassment policies, managing employee redundancy schemes and reorganisations. We advise and negotiate collective agreements and manage labour union relations. Our team seamlessly manages high stakes employment disputes and is committed to meeting our clients’ highest standards.
In doing business internationally, many clients appoint foreign nationals to key positions within their Serbian subsidiaries and our employment and immigration experts have the experience and expertise to ease their transition by assisting with domestic work permits, residency permits and tax support.
Workforce issues are some of the most complex and important matters facing any organisation as they can impact productivity and undermine workplace culture. Our employment team is well-known for providing practical advice and top-notch service. We advise on employment issues arising from acquisitions, the establishment or termination of employment, restructuring programmes, compensation policies, benefits packages, disputes, and the employment of foreign nationals. With many clients, we have an ongoing relationship and regularly assist with their daily employment issues.
We have extensive experience in tackling our clients’ complicated employment challenges. As a result, key executives and HR professionals rely on us to help them resolve workforce issues quickly, efficiently and sensitively. To help our clients stay on top of changing legislation and to ensure compliant behaviour in their employees, we regularly work with clients to provide in-house training and seminars on labour law-related matters.
Drawing from in-depth knowledge of domestic employment regulations, we help our clients manage their most sensitive matters, including drafting and negotiating employment agreements, drafting employment policies and procedures such as incentive programmes and workplace harassment policies, managing employee redundancy schemes and reorganisations. We advise and negotiate collective agreements and manage labour union relations. Our team seamlessly manages high stakes employment disputes and is committed to meeting our clients’ highest standards.
In doing business internationally, many clients appoint foreign nationals to key positions within their Serbian subsidiaries and our employment and immigration experts have the experience and expertise to ease their transition by assisting with domestic work permits, residency permits and tax support.
Our intellectual property practice puts a business take on traditional intellectual property protection services. We offer a full range of services for the protection, enforcement, defence, acquisition and the commercial exploitation of intellectual property rights. Our versatile team has interdisciplinary skill-sets that ensure our clients receive the tailored, cutting-edge legal services that they would expect from a leading business law firm.
We cover all the IP needs of our clients in the areas of protection, commercialism and enforcement. Our wide range of intellectual property services includes assistance in areas ranging from trademark registration, copyright protection, trade secrets, counterfeiting, piracy, IP disputes, enforcement, advanced technology solutions and IP portfolio auditing. Our intellectual property team specialises in IP transactional work and we provide full support on pre and post transactional IP services and are fully equipped to provide a thorough IP due diligence investigation.
Our legal experts have in-depth knowledge of domestic advertising and marketing laws and their commercial implications in industries such as telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, energy and technology. This commercial understanding is strategically applied to commercial agreements and other IP intensive business operations.
Clients recognise our expertise in this field and value our long-term commitment to the protection of their brand integrity, along with our unique commercial solutions. We are perfectly placed to handle regional IP projects through our membership in “Lawyers & Friends – SE European Legal Network”.
Real estate is an essential part in today’s business environment and can ultimately determine the success or failure of any commercial operation. By grasping the core of the matter, our dedicated real estate experts are able to suggest appropriate and intelligent solutions for our clients and advise them on the entire real estate life-cycle. Real estate funds, developers, institutional investors and corporations alike trust our client-centric approach that ensures that their underlying business strategy has been taken into consideration for every matter.
Our real estate experts handle all matters related to the development and maturation of a property all the way to the final exit, including sound legal advice in relation to acquisitions and joint ventures, investment structures, FIDIC agreements, financing, licensing, property disputes, and planning and construction projects. The team has profound knowledge of all particularities of each property type and is therefore ideally positioned to give tailored advice on any kind of industrial, residential, retail or multi-purpose real estate. Our counsel is regularly sought after in regards to the largest and most complex real estate transactions in our market.
Our real estate team works closely with colleagues from our corporate, banking and finance, dispute, energy, infrastructure and tax practices to ensure smooth, seamless service during transactions. Our team offers insight into the available tax benefits for real estate investments along with advice on how to capitalise on it. Our regional relationship with “Lawyers & Friends – SE European Legal Network” gives us the ability and resources to manage cross-border transactions and multi-jurisdictional acquisitions.
Having the right legal team at your side can really impact your bottom line during times of financial crisis. Our legal specialists render all types of legal services to public and private companies on insolvency, reorganisation and restructuring matters. We have extensive experience in domestic restructuring and insolvency matters and our comprehensive advice helps clients navigate through complex situations and financial distress.
We represent domestic and foreign debtors, creditors and investors across a wide range of industries, including retail, real estate, healthcare, manufacturing and construction. Our expertise includes advising on a variety of issues regarding corporate restructuring, workouts, bankruptcy administration, liquidation, enforcement of pledges, insolvency issues and proceedings, as well as the dissolution of companies.
Our team specialises in representing financial institutions and other debt holders on all aspects of financially distressed situations, and our unrivalled experience ensures that proceedings are efficient and the creditors receive the best possible outcomes. Our lawyers are adept at handling the most demanding situations, which require complex legal consideration and represent significant financial risk for the involved parties. We have dealt with some of the largest and most high-profile bankruptcy, pre-packaged, and out-of-court restructuring cases in Serbia and Montenegro that involved many affected parties and complex legal issues. Our team also has substantial experience in handling particularly sensitive enforcements of foreign judgments and arbitral awards in Serbia. A proven track record advising on many landmark cases are a testament to our expertise and the foundation of our outstanding reputation.
Our restructuring and insolvency team works closely with colleagues from the banking and finance, corporate, dispute resolution and tax practices to provide a full-service offering to our clients.
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