Živković Samardžić was founded on a handshake in 1998 as a five lawyers boutique active in media and telecoms, insurance litigation, private and not-for-profit client practices.
Today, Živković Samardžić is one of the Serbia’s leading full-service independent law firms. Our 10 partners / 35 lawyers strong team provide top quality legal service to a diverse range of international and national clients, from SME to Global 500.
Experienced in cross-border matters, we nurture professional connections regionally, through a well-coordinated network of top-ranking local business law firms with international experience in Central and Eastern European countries (including Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey), and worldwide, as a member of Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance, AVRIO Advocati, Association of European Lawyers, MSI Global Alliance, The Global Legal Blockchain Consortium, World Bank local partner on the Doing Business project and as exclusive partner of „Lansky, Ganzger & Partner“ in Vienna. We are members of Bar Association of Serbia and Bar Association of Belgrade, American Chamber of Commerce in Serbia, Chamber of Italian – Serbian businessmen (Camera di Commercio Italo-Serba), Belgian Serbian Business Association and Foreign Investors’ Council.
General Terms of Bussines of the law firm Živković|Samardžić in force as from 29 September 2017
You contend with myriad laws and regulations, with differing interpretations and changing enforcement requirements. To compete effectively in such environment, strategic corporate advice is critical. We deal with complex business transactions and provide strategic corporate advice to many of the leading commercial, financial and industrial enterprises in Serbia, both national and international. Thorough understanding of markets and needs of our clients, allow us to provide the best information available, reasoned, professional judgment and recommendations on the optimal strategy to pursue. Whether you need advice in regards to corporate governance, strategic alliances, joint ventures, complex commercial projects, mergers and acquisitions, sales and purchases of stock and assets, investments or reorganizations, our Corporate and M&A team is seasoned by large-scale projects involving multiple jurisdictions as well as day-to-day activities that help our clients manage their operations in Serbia and regionally.
A dispute represents a risk that absorbs your resources and represents uncertainty which has to be eliminated as quickly and as cost-efficiently as possible. Our dispute resolution team advises on all types of disputes, while the breadth and scale of our practice enables us to act simultaneously on a number of cases at any one time. We offer commercially focused and practical solutions for complex disputes in every industry sector. Through integrating our litigation capability with Živković Samardžić’s other practice areas, we provide a unique full-service offering to clients. Our litigators have broad experience in handling cases for both plaintiffs and defendants, in banking, commercial, corporate, defamation, employment, insurance, intellectual property, restructuring and insolvency litigation, national, international and investment treaty arbitration, as well as in regulatory investigations and judicial review of administrative decisions. Finally, we work with our clients to put systems in place to minimise the risk of litigation arising in the future.
Your organisation is faced with challenges arising from the increasingly complex and extensive labour legislation and collective agreements. Despite having strong in-house HR competences, you still find that you require expert counselling and legal assistance in all aspects of Serbian and international employment law. Our lawyers have broad experience in handling redundancy, reorganisation management, union negotiations, employment disputes resolution, executive terminations and are capable to help our clients achieve compliance commercially. We offer the most comprehensive and cost-effective way to both national and international companies to ensure employment and labour law compliance in Serbia.
Commercial growth and competitiveness of your organization depends on proper intellectual property rights management. We protect, manage and enforce our client’s intellectual property rights in Serbia. Our IP team provide comprehensive advice whatever your technological or commercial area of interest is.
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Our services cover the full range of your intellectual property requirements: from filing single trademark applications to the managing of large and complex portfolios.
Our IP lawyers work together with our Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Dispute Resolution, Commercial and Regulatory teams to help you assess your intellectual property protection, enforcement and managing strategies and policies, review your intellectual property associated contracts and documents, identify areas of risk and provide practical recommendations.
You are Real Estate investor or developer. Real estate is the underlying asset for your business. Real estate investments have become more complex and you need advice by someone acknowledged for superlative knowledge of Serbian real estate law. Our Real Estate and Construction team offers our clients a genuine one-stop shop for property services, from acquisition and planning, to construction and disposal through to commercial and residential property. We understand that Real Estate and Construction is all about getting deals done as quickly and as smoothly as possible and that’s how we operate. Our Real Estate and Construction lawyers work together with our Corporate and M&A, Financial Services and Regulatory teams to help you with financing, environmental and property tax considerations.
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