Europe Guide 2026 : Serbia
Ranked Individual
Provided by Karanovic & Partners
Our team provides a complete range of competition law services, including antitrust and competition law compliance, sector regulation, abuse of dominance, cartels and restrictive agreements, state aid, merger control and competition enforcement, as well as competition litigation. We take a preventive approach by analysing business practices, transactions and agreements to adequately assess the risks of competition infringement.
Our competition lawyers have vast experience in assessing, planning and structuring high profile transactions from a competition perspective. We are experienced in coordinating complicated cross-border merger control proceedings, and, in cooperation with local lawyers, we had a large number of cases handled by regional competition authorities. Along with extensive experience in planning and negotiating remedies, this combination of factors manifests itself through our team's regularly high success rates in all types of transactions.
We assisted clients in a number of landmark antitrust cases before both the competition authorities and courts. Due to our regionally strong reputation, we often work with enforcers and courts developing new and existing economic and antitrust concepts. This combination of knowledge, experience and influence, puts us in a position to maximise our clients' business goals, while giving them a significant commercial advantage compared to what our competitors are able to offer.
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Karanovic & Partners remains a leading firm on the Serbian competition law market, with notable ability to handle phase II merger investigations or filings that involve multiple jurisdictions in the region. The team is also adept in handling behavioural investigations and leniency applications. Team members also act on compliance queries, including around distribution strategies.
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Karanovic & Partners advised CEE BIG on the phase II merger control investigation into its proposed acquisition of Promenada.
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We appreciate the team's diversity and its expertise.
Karanovic & Partners is able to find a solution very quickly. The team is very helpful and very to the point.
I have full confidence in the firm's ability to handle complex and sophisticated matters.
We get extraordinarily pragmatic and experienced advice. The lawyers are very responsive and are able to coordinate many jurisdictions beyond Serbia.
The team is reliable, solution oriented and able to provide clear and practical guidance even in complex matters.
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Rastko Petaković often assists multinational clients with merger control filings across the CEE region. He has further experience in behavioural investigations and the competition law compliance aspects of distribution agreements.
He is always supportive and knows exactly how to organise the team.
Rastko Petaković is a very strong, practical guy who is good at solving problems.
He is super responsive and always very helpful.
He is one of the sharpest legal minds I have ever met.
Head of Competition/Antitrust
Provided by Karanovic & Partners
Jovana Đorđević
Stefan Janković
Sanja Dedović
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